1. Set your FTP client to connect to host ftp.yourdomain.com (replace yourdomain.com with your own web address).
2. Set your user name.
3. Set your password.

Note: You don’t need to enter a remote directory. Your user name and password will automatically bring you to your root directory.

When you’ve entered your settings, use your client to connect to the FTP server (check your client’s documentation for connection help). When you are connected, you should see a list of the files in your account.

You can find your personal FTP settings on the “FTP Manager” of your Web Hosting Control Panel.

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1. Click on Start > Computer, key in ftp://yourdomain.com into the address bar.

2. A window will be prompted out for you to log on. Fill in your FTP account username and password. If you did not create any new FTP account, you may login with the default account where the username and password is similar with your cPanel username and password.

3. After login is successful, you may your web files to the root folder (public_html).

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Overview

File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is a standard network protocol used to transfer files from one host or to another host over a TCP-based network, such as the Internet.

FTP is built on a client-server architecture and uses separate control and data connections between the client and the server. FTP users may authenticate themselves using a clear-text sign-in protocol, normally in the form of a username and password, but can connect anonymously if the server is configured to allow it.

To initiate a FTP connection to the server you need to have :

• Hostname or IP address of your server.
• FTP Username and password.

The above information can be found in your Account Information email that we sent to you when you start the hosting with us.

First, you need to choose a FTP client that will help you to initiate a FTP connection to the server. There are many FTP clients software that you can download for free. One of our recommended FTP client is FileZilla, you can download FileZilla client here (select the file appropriate for your platform).

1.    After you have downloaded and installed FileZilla client on your PC, open FileZilla.

2.    When the FileZilla windows pop up, enter the Host (or IP address), FTP Username and Password. Then click Quickconnect.

3.    You will see two explorer windows. The left side is Local site (your PC) and the right side is Remote site (server). To upload a file, you choose the file you want to upload from the Local site. Right click on it, then click Upload.

4.    To download the files from the server, you can go to the file that you want to download on Remote site. Right click on it, then click Download.

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