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Posted by cwdjrxyz@yahoo.com on 12/05/05 19:21
Leesa_...@softhome.net wrote:
> As I have mentioned a few times in here recently I plan on building a
> web page very soon at one of the sites that allow it at no cost. Some
> of them mention that they support FTP as opposed to BROWSER support.
>
> Can I use FTP, which I know stands for FILE TRANSFER PROTOCOL with a
> dial-up connection? I know it would be extremely slow and to me that's
> OK because I am a patient person (well, pretty patient ... lol ).
>
> I just want to know if I can use this FTP with dial-up for my simple
> and basic page or it would be better to use the BROWSER upload method
> at their site.
Yes you can use FTP upload to your web site if the host supports FTP,
and most do. In fact many pro hosts support only FTP. Many hosts,
especially for hobby web pages, have some sort of file manager that
allows you to upload and download from there when signed in at your
host. Since both methods involve use of the same connection from your
computer to them, they both will have a speed that is not very
different. An exception may be for a host that overloads their servers,
resulting in general slowness at peak traffic times and sometimes
slowness on their file manager. Uploading a simple web page by either
method usually is fairly fast, even on dialup. What can be slow is a
page with a very large number of high resolution images or streaming
music or video. However, if you want to backup your whole web site from
your host to your computer, or upload a whole existing site from your
computer to a host, this can be very slow on dialup. In that case, you
may have to upload or download one directory at a time rather than the
whole site. It is no fun at all to download for a few hours, only to
have a problem break your connection, so that you have to start over.
And some ISPs limit connection time and cut you off after a fixed time.
Although I am now on SBC/Yahoo DSL Pro, which is very fast, I have used
MSN dialup in the past, and there were no problems with FTP or using a
host file manager upload-download, other than the mentioned slowness.
Using FTP requires an FTP agent program on your computer. There are
some free ones and many pay ones. I use CuteFTP Pro, which must be
bought.
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