Use FTP hosting to get your website online and online hosting to keep it there
So you've spent the time to develop your brand new online vision for your business and you're excited about what your all-singing, all-dancing website is capable of doing when it comes to profit margins. Of course, not many small businesses have the financial resources to afford television advertising, so a website is an important cost-effective way of giving your company a 'face'. What you're striving for is a website that anticipates the requirements of your customer/visitor and then goes on to fulfil them. It is worth considering too, that you don't need to have hulking servers physically in your office, taking up space and draining energy, while at the time of course, the servers remain completely your responsibility. Website hosting means a third-party firm will 'host' your site and look after it to ensure that it is always working to its optimum.
In the same way, getting those pages of your new site (pages created in-house in particular) onto the server in the first place is achieved by using FTP hosting. This allows files to be moved quickly and effectively between computers that are on a network, and indeed, between servers as well. Many of the FTP clients such as the graphical-based versions have drag and drop icon functionality for ultimate in easy file swapping. Other ways to achieve this include a web browser-based FTP transfer facility that makes it easy for you to browse massive directories and read and retrieve files at your leisure. Once you've got this sorted and have got the hang of hosting services, your website will be ready to strut its funky stuff in no time.
