WEBMASTERS: Changing Servers

[Bill Stoneberg]

Our hosting company is requiring us to change servers soon as we are on an OLD server.

So we switching servers to new improved server.

Front Page is no longer supported.

You will get a FTP account if you dont already have one.

Bill

[Mark Shaw]

OK Bill, for those of us not familiar with that term, please clarify FTP account...

[Bill Stoneberg]

FTP is used to transfer files to the web server.

[Mark Shaw]

OK, I looked it up...:

Definition: FTP allows you to transfer files between two computers on the Internet. FTP is a simple network protocol based on Internet Protocol and also a term used when referring to the process of copying files when using FTP technology.

To transfer files with FTP, you use a program often called the "client." The FTP client program initiates a connection to a remote computer running FTP "server" software. After the connection is established, the client can choose to send and/or receive copies of files, singly or in groups. To connect to an FTP server, a client requires a username and password as set by the administrator of the server. Many public FTP archives follow a special convention for that accepts a username of "anonymous."

Simple FTP clients are included with most network operating systems, but most of these clients (such as FTP.EXE on Windows) support a relatively unfriendly command-line interface. Many alternative freeware / shareware third-party FTP clients have been developed that support graphic user interfaces (GUIs) and additional convenience features. In any FTP interface, clients identify the FTP server either by its IP address (such as 192.168.0.1) or by its host name (such as ftp.about.com). FTP supports two modes of data transfer: plain text (ASCII), and binary. You set the mode in the FTP client. A common error when using FTP is attempting to transfer a binary file (such as a program or music file) while in text mode, causing the transfered file to be unusable.

[ol' yeller]

I thought I understood it after response #3. Now I'm not so sure....

[Bill Stoneberg]

If you put files on our server we will give you the ability to do so on the new server same as the server we are on now.

Thats all I was saying.

[BUICK RACER]

But if you are still using Microsoft Front Page you are going to have to learn how to use FTP!

[Bill Stoneberg]

But if you are still using Microsoft Front Page you are going to have to learn how to use FTP!

And how to do web pages without microsofts help

[Dandy Dave]

OK, I looked it up...:

Definition: FTP allows you to transfer files between two computers on the Internet. FTP is a simple network protocol based on Internet Protocol and also a term used when referring to the process of copying files when using FTP technology.

To transfer files with FTP, you use a program often called the "client." The FTP client program initiates a connection to a remote computer running FTP "server" software. After the connection is established, the client can choose to send and/or receive copies of files, singly or in groups. To connect to an FTP server, a client requires a username and password as set by the administrator of the server. Many public FTP archives follow a special convention for that accepts a username of "anonymous."

Simple FTP clients are included with most network operating systems, but most of these clients (such as FTP.EXE on Windows) support a relatively unfriendly command-line interface. Many alternative freeware / shareware third-party FTP clients have been developed that support graphic user interfaces (GUIs) and additional convenience features. In any FTP interface, clients identify the FTP server either by its IP address (such as 192.168.0.1) or by its host name (such as ftp.about.com). FTP supports two modes of data transfer: plain text (ASCII), and binary. You set the mode in the FTP client. A common error when using FTP is attempting to transfer a binary file (such as a program or music file) while in text mode, causing the transfered file to be unusable.

Athough it has been years since I had a college course in the Basics of Computers, now that you put it that way, this does make horse sense in the modern cyber space information highway of today. Dandy Dave!

[dkbuick75]

HUH ???!!!!