FTP and Website Hosting
FTP or File Transfer Protocol is probably the most popular way to transfer files on the Internet. When you want to upload your website content, whether it be content pages or pictures, in bulk, FTP is still the only major tool available. FTP comes in a couple of flavors - Regular FTP and secure FTP. In this day and age of internet privacy, more and more web hosting companies are supporting secure ftp.
For FTP to work you need two components one is an FTP client and the other is the FTP server provided by your webhosting company. An FTP client tool runs on your windows PC (or mac). FTP client software is available freely. Even microsoft windows comes with a ftp client bundled in. You can begin to use ftp in your browser by typing in ftp:// instead of http:// followed by the server address. Use windows help for more information. Several other powerful ftp tools are available from third party companies.
SmartFTP is probably one of the most powerful ftp client tools in the market today. Smart FTP comes so many features you hardly need to use even a fraction of it for normal file transfer tasks. SmartFTP is shareware you can try it for free and if you like it you can download it for a small price. Then you can use SmartFTP to upload your files to the webserver - make sure your webhost supports FTP- almost all of them do. But if you are interested in secure FTP, your webhost needs to support it.
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