File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is the most commonly used and popular way
to publish your web site into your Positive account so it is visible on
the World Wide Web via your domain. Whilst many web design tools such
as Dreamweaver and Adobe GoLive have their own built-in web publishing tools,
these also are still effectively using FTP to transfer the files.
The first step in publishing your web site is to design your pages "locally"
on your own computer, probably using web design software and/or a text
editor such as. Once you have designed and tested the seperate html pages
and images locally you can then use an FTP client to transfer the local
files to your Positive account on our remote host machine.
There are a wide range of different standalone FTP clients available
for all platforms, most shareware and some freeware - we have some links
here. Some operating systems such as Linux
(and even Windows 9x) have a simple command line based FTP built in but
most people prefer to use a dedicated FTP client for ease of use and convenience.
Additionally, most web design software usually has an FTP publishing feature
built in.
Regardless of 'flavour', all FTP software needs the same information
in order to make a connection to your web space. This information is as
follows:
1) HOSTNAME (Also known as REMOTE SERVER or SERVER or REMOTE HOST)
The hostname should be your web address (without the http:// section)
for example www.example.co.uk
Note: if your domain is still in the process of transferring, you will
need to use the temporary hostname of the server your account is hosted
on, as stated your original welcome email from us. This will usually be
something like muon.positive-internet.com or boson.positive-internet.com
etc.
2) USERNAME (Also known as USER, LOGIN or LOGIN NAME)
The username is as stated in your welcome emaik and is the login name
you chose when setting up your account.
3) PASSWORD
The password is initally allocated to you by us and notifed in your welcome
email.
Note: you can change your password if you wish. See here
for details.
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