How to upload your site online via FTP or Dreamweaver

To successfully upload your website to your web hosting space, follow these instructions:

Prepare
- Make sure that you have enough disk space in your hosting account - you need to check how large your website is and make sure that your hosting plan has enough disk space left to accomodate it. You can check the space that you have left in your hosting account in the Account Usage Stats on the left side of your Web Hosting Control Panel.
- Make sure that your files are arranged properly in directories and subdirectories on your computer so that you can easily locate them.
- Determine where exactly you should put the files on the server. Usually your domain points to a folder in the www/ directory, which has the same name as your domain. So if your domain is my-best-domain.com, the correct path would be /www/my-best-domain.com - this is where you should put your files. If you are unsure what the correct path is, go to the Site Options > Subdomain Manager section of your Web Hosting Control Panel, locate your subdomain or domain (domains are listed as www.my-best-domain.com) and click on the "Edit" icon. One of the fields that could be edited is "Path" - it shows which folder your domain/subdomain points to, i.e. where you should upload your files.
Connect through FTP to your hosting account to upload the files
- For more details on how you can do that, you can review this article: How to connect via FTP and upload/download files"
Uploading with Dreamweaver

Note: This is an alternative to uploading via an FTP client - you are not required to use Dreamweaver, this is simply a tutorial for Dreamweaver users. If you didn't use Dreamweaver to create your website, refer to step 2 and upload your website via an FTP client.

Dreamweaver is a very popular tool that provides a lot of options for building your site. If you have built your site using Dreamweaver and now you wish to upload it to the server, here are the steps you need to take:

In Dreamweaver, go to Site > Manage Sites... and select your website. In the window that appears, labeled "Site Definition for SiteName", choose the "Advanced" tab and click on "Remote Info" on the left. There you need to choose the FTP option from the "Access" drop-down menu. Several fields appear:
FTP host - enter your domain name here, e.g.: my-best-domain.com
Host directory - type the path to the directory, where you wish your site to be uploaded. The path is relative to the directory, which your FTP account connects you to. Usually, you should enter your domain name again: my-best-domain.com
Login and Password - enter your FTP login details here. If you are not sure what your FTP username and password are, you can find them in the welcome email for your hosting account and also in the FTP Manager section of your Web Hosting Control Panel (Site Options > FTP Manager). Usually the username is the same as the one you use to log in to the Web Hosting Control Panel. However, the password could not be the same - it could be changed via the FTP Manager section.
Use Passive FTP - make sure this option is selected.

Finally, click on the "Testing Server" menu on the right. You will see a "Server Model" drop-down menu. Choose the PHP MySQL server model.

Click on the "OK" button to finish your settings.

In the Dreamweaver main window, you should be able to see a menu list, located in the top left corner. There you need to find the name of your site and the directory where it is located, and under it, all the files that it uses. To upload your site you need to click on its name and then click on the up arrow button.