Uploading your Website via FTP

Once you have created your new account with FASTDOT, you can access it using the details provided in your web hosting welcome email. If your domain name is not officially pointing to our servers yet, use the IP address and the Username which was sent to you in your welcome email.
 

 
Example:
ftp host: yourdomain.com.au or the temporary IP address
ftp username: your cpanel username
ftp password: your cpanel password

Where do I upload my files to?

The public_html is where your web page files and folders have to be placed !!!!

The public_html folder is the only folder you should be uploading your website files and folders to. For your site to be accessible directly by your domain name name, your index file(index.htm, index.html, or index.php) has to reside directly inside the public_html folder. You must also make sure that you maintain exactly the same file/folder layout structure as the one that is in your HTML editing application. If you do not maintain this layout your web pages will not be able to correctly reference each other or any embedded images, etc.

Below is an example of how a basic structural layout of a site may look once it has been uploaded. Please bare in mind this is only a sample and your site's files and folders may be named differently to those listed.

{gallery}uploadingsite{/gallery}

Deleting files and folders

It is VERY IMPORTANT you do not delete any system folders when transferring or removing files. Doing so can corrupt your hosting account. Only remove files and folders that reside inside the public_html folder.