Copying your site using FTP is the easiest and most acurate way to copy your site. FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol and simply transfers files from one computer to another. In this case you are going to transfer your Web site files from your Web sites server to your computer.
First choose an FTP program. Some are free, some are not, many have trial versions so you can try them first.
Before you download and install an FTP program for this purpose, make sure your hosting service offers FTP. Many free hosting services do not. As a matter of fact, the only free hosting service I could find that offered FTP, when researching for this article, was Tripod by Lycos.
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