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Copy Your Web Site Using FTP

By Linda Roeder, About.com

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Why Use FTP?

You may need to copy your Web site for several reasons. Maybe you need to move your Web site to another hosting service. Maybe you just want to have your Web site backed up in case the server crashes. FTP is one way you can copy your Web site.

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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