Most of the sites in the process of their creation are not made on the Internet itself, but on the local computers of webmasters and only after the final completion of all work are transferred to the network. This mode is justified from the point of view of saving network traffic and ease of use, since it is protected from network failures and crashes. However, if it is necessary to make your site available to visitors, novice site builders may have certain difficulties. And first of all, this is the question of how to place a ready-made website on the network.
Instructions
Step 1
In order for the site to be available to users around the clock, it must be physically located on a powerful computer (server) with a permanent connection to the Internet. Therefore, first of all, a webmaster needs a good hosting to publish his site.
Step 2
Hosting (from the English hosting) is a service for providing site owners with computers from a hosting company for placing information on the network. Nowadays, many companies provide such opportunities to their clients. Hosting can be physical or virtual, as well as paid or free.
Step 3
Free hosting is a service provided by some major Internet portals, and that allows you to create personal user pages (sites) on your server. The most famous are such free hosting services as Narod.ru, Ucoz.ru,
Alfaspace. NET etc. You can get a complete list of free hosting services using any search engine for the key query "free hosting for the site." Some of these services, such as Ucoz.ru, are at the same time a kind of website builders and help an inexperienced user create web pages, others simply provide physical space for the site on their servers. As a rule, all free hosting services have certain limitations in functionality (lack of MsSql, Perl, mailbox limit), forced presence of extraneous advertising, lack of technical support and frequent site crashes. Therefore, more serious and experienced webmasters always prefer paid hosting for their projects. It is worth noting that with the modern variety of companies providing hosting services, it is relatively easy to choose the most optimal combination of price and quality for any situation, even with a very limited budget.
Step 4
After choosing a hosting, you need to transfer the site files not to the hosting server. For this, it is most convenient to use special programs - ftp-clients. The simplest and most accessible ftp client can be found in the common file manager - Total Commander. To do this, select the FTP tab in the main menu of the program and click the "New ftp connection" option, then in the window that opens, enter the hoster's url and additional settings. All the necessary data for this is provided by the support service of the hosting company.
Step 5
In addition to the Total Commander option, you can transfer a site to hosting using special FTP clients. One of the best available today is FileZilla. It does not take up much hard disk space, is very easy to manage and can be downloaded for free from the manufacturer's website (https://filezilla.ru/get/). After all the directories and site files are uploaded to the hoster's server, they must be configured so that the site becomes visible to network users. For the correct configuration, you need to contact the hosting technical support to provide you with the necessary instructions and settings data. It is worth noting that with good hosters, the support service itself usually helps novice webmasters not only upload the site to their server, but also completely configure it for work. Therefore, do not hesitate to write to the technical support service and ask for help with any difficulties.
