Whether you’re about to set up a moneymaking website that will work for you 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, or a personal website based on your own design which will serve as a repository of your ideas and feelings, you will need to upload the files of your website to the web hosting service you have chosen to partner up with
Whether you’re about to set up a moneymaking website that will work for you 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, or a personal website based on your own design which will serve as a repository of your ideas and feelings, you will need to upload the files of your website to the web hosting service you have chosen to partner up with. You have a few options for this. One is by using your web hosting service’s own HTML uploader (assuming it has one), but such a system isn’t always reliable given the plug-ins required which your browser may not have. Another is by using an HTML editor’s publishing features. Almost all major brands of web builders have one. But the most popular and the most versatile option is the usage of FTP, or file transfer protocol, the internet’s standard for transferring files from one computer to another.
All you need is an FTP client, and currently, the most popular and the most reliable FTP client you can find is one which you can download for free – Filezilla.
How does Filezilla work?
Imagine Filezilla to be a middleman of sorts. It will take care of everything that is needed for the transfer of your files from your computer to your web hosting service. You don’t need to learn complicated instructions. Filezilla is pretty easy to use and you can start exploiting it by simply studying 3 easy steps.
How does Filezilla work in 3 easy steps? Assuming you have already downloaded the client and installed the same, simply boot up the program and:
*Type in the URL of your website as well as the username and the password which you use for your web hosting service on the fields allocated for the same.
*Press the button labeled as “Quickconnect.” The client will then start connecting to the web hosting service.
*Once connected, simply drag and drop the files from the left side of the screen (the files on your PC) to the destination folders on the right side of the screen (the files on your web hosting space).
That’s it. There are no complicated answers to the question of “how does Filezilla work?” Filezilla is, indeed, very easy to use, what with its intuitive design and user-friendly interface.
How does Filezilla work for applications other than transferring files to a web hosting service?
Well, if you’re running a business where clients need to convey digital files for you to manipulate – as is the case for medical and legal transcription enterprises, translation services, video editing businesses, and the likes – you can set up a web space where they can upload the files they want to deliver to you. You can use the Filezilla FTP client to set up such an upload destination and your clients can use the same program to upload their files to the same.
Filezilla FTP is one of the most basic tools that an online businessman MUST master. It is regarded as the industry standard, after all, the barometer by which other FTP clients are judged.
