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Web Hosting Basics Frequently Asked Questions Domain Transfer Information Using Microsoft Frontpage

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Once you receive your Welcome to Flighthost.com letter and packet that contains your IP address, username, and password, you are ready to start uploading files into your account. There are a number of FTP (File Transfer Protocol) programs on the market that can be used to upload your files, but we suggest using WS FTP or Cute FTP for the PC and Fetch for the Mac. When using any type of FTP program there are three key things to keep in mind when connecting to your account. Your host name would be your IP address or domain name. Your username is the username we provided in the welcome letter. Your password is the password we provided in the welcome letter. Keep in mind no matter what FTP program you may be using, these three above items are needed to connect to your account.
Below are screen shot examples of how WS_FTP looks when being used. This is what the initial login screen would look like. WS_FTP Web Site \| Cute FTP Web Site \| Fetch Web Site Home Directory Once you logon you will be in your home directory. There are many files and folders already sitting in your home directory. Each folder has its own purpose. Just ahead we will explain what the responsibilities of each are. This is what your home directory will look like once you logon. Special Note-- As a general rule don't delete or edit anything you didn't create. Explanation of each folder's contents. domain-anonftp - this folder contains your anonymous FTP files. domain-web-logs - this folder contains all access logs of visitors to your site domain-mail - this folder holds all POP mail accounts for your domain domain-www - this folder stores all html files for your domain www - this folder is an alias for the domain-www folder domain-secure - This is an aliases folder for use with SSL security
The left side of the FTP screen represents your computer and the right side shows the contents of our server. To upload your site simply select the files from your computer and drag them to the domain-www directory on our server.

Note to Microsoft FrontPage Users Customers with FrontPage extensions installed on their site should use only the FrontPage publishing feature to transfer files. Using regular FTP can corrupt the extensions. For information on how to upload using Frontpage please click here

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