Software Development:
Individual Programming

Symptom

You have created a website on your local computer and would like to publish it.

Solution

It is possible to upload files with the „File Manager“ of the web space control panel, but for website projects this can be difficult and time consuming.

To copy files between computers, FTP has been invented. FTP stands for “File Transfer Protocol”. You need an FTP client for it. Browser based FTP is not common today and does not offer the possibilities that a real FTP client software has. An excellent an free FTP software for Windows is FileZilla. You can use other FTP software, too. On a Bitpalace Business Booster account it is possible, to use SFTP with software like WinSCP (this is not possible in the Bitpalace ValueWebspace accounts, because they don’t allow SSH access).

In your FTP client you create an FTP profile from your host name, FTP login name and FTP password. This will be used to connect to your server. It makes things very simple, because you won’t need to enter the access credentials each time you login – simply click and you are connected. Now you can move files and directories as easily as you know it from your computer’s file explorer. The FTP access credentials can be found in the server welcome mail that you got after your server was set up.

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