| You have a new domain, cheap web hosting and | | | | file management. Check at your hosting control panel |
| your DNS records are set to point your domain to | | | | if there is some file management. If it is there then |
| the web hosting. Now you need to upload your | | | | check if you can unpack archive files. This way you |
| HTML pages or entire CMS to start managing your | | | | can transfer quite a lot of files in very short time. |
| website. This can be done in many ways. It depends | | | | If you don't have access to such file managers you |
| on the file size and the number of files you need to | | | | can still upload archived file and unpack it with some |
| transfer. | | | | script. Simply google for "PHP unpacker" or something. |
| In any case you need a FTP account. This was | | | | If you are using Joomla there is an excellent |
| created when you have set up your hosting account. | | | | component called JoomlaPack. It archives the whole |
| You should have an address of FTP server, user | | | | site including the database into one big file. To |
| name and password. To use it you will need a FTP | | | | restore this file you need only a kickstart php script |
| client software. There are many free available for | | | | which is included. It does everything needed to start |
| download, just google for it. Once you have it | | | | Joomla installation process and it also removes the |
| installed you can try to connect to your hosting | | | | installation folder after the installation process is |
| server. If everything works well you will see the root | | | | finished. |
| folder of your hosting account. There should be a | | | | Transfer of files to and from web server is pretty |
| folder named public_html, www or with similar name. | | | | simple. If this is your first website then you only |
| This is where you should upload your files to be | | | | need a little practice. Once you will transfer few files |
| visible from your domain. | | | | in both ways you will soon find out which method |
| Now you have all prerequisites to start uploading files | | | | should be used in particular case. And because regular |
| to your web server. However, if there are many files | | | | backups are a very important part of any website |
| this will take some time. In order to speed things up | | | | management you will have to transfer files each time |
| you can try to upload a compressed archive (zip or | | | | you will backup the website. |
| gzip) and then to unpack it from hosting control panel | | | | |