UPLOAD YOUR SITE

Upload your site: guides by host

The site you own is one flat zip: index.html at the top, one CSS file, your photos. These are the screens of each host; your account shows the same steps with your own file names.

The zip is flat: extract it IN the web folder and index.html lands at the root. If your panel created a folder with the site inside, open it, select all, Move to the web folder.

GoDaddy

godaddy.com → My Products → Web Hosting → Manage → Dashboard → File Manager → /public_html
1. Open your hosting's File Manager
2. Show hidden files
3. Back up first
4. Move the old site out of the web folder
5. Upload the zip and extract it
6. Make sure index.html is the front page
7. Open your site
8. Keep the padlock (HTTPS)
Their help article
Hostinger

hpanel.hostinger.com → Websites → Dashboard → File Manager → public_html
1. Open the File Manager of your website
2. Back up first
3. Show hidden files
4. Move the old site out of the web folder
5. Upload the zip and extract it
6. Make sure index.html is the front page
7. Open your site
8. Keep the padlock (HTTPS)
Their help article
Namecheap

namecheap.com → Hosting List → Go to cPanel → Files → File Manager → public_html
1. Open cPanel's File Manager
2. Show hidden files
3. Back up first
4. Move the old site out of the web folder
5. Upload the zip and extract it
6. Make sure index.html is the front page
7. Open your site
8. Keep the padlock (HTTPS)
Their help article
Bluehost

bluehost.com → Portal Login → Hosting → My Plans → File Manager → public_html
1. Open the File Manager
2. Show hidden files
3. Back up first
4. Move the old site out of the web folder
5. Upload the zip and extract it
6. Make sure index.html is the front page
7. Open your site
8. Keep the padlock (HTTPS)
Their help article
IONOS

ionos.com → Menu → Hosting → Webspace → Use Webspace (or SFTP & SSH); the web folder is the domain's Target
1. Find your site's folder, then open the Webspace
2. Back up first
3. Move the old site out of the web folder
4. Upload the zip and extract it
5. Make sure index.html is the front page
6. SFTP, if you prefer to move whole folders
7. Open your site
8. Keep the padlock (HTTPS)
Their help article
Network Solutions

networksolutions.com → Log In → Websites & Hosting (or Hosting) → Manage → File Manager → public_html
1. Open the File Manager of your hosting package
2. Back up first
3. Move the old site out of the web folder
4. Upload the zip and extract it
5. SFTP (FileZilla), the faster way
6. Make sure index.html is the front page
7. Open your site
8. Keep the padlock (HTTPS)
Their help article
HostGator

portal.hostgator.com → Hosting → Quick Links → File Manager → public_html
1. Open the File Manager
2. Back up first
3. Move the old site out of the web folder
4. Upload the zip and extract it
5. Make sure index.html is the front page
6. Open your site
7. Keep the padlock (HTTPS)
Their help article
SiteGround

my.siteground.com → Websites → Site Tools → Site → File Manager → www/{domain}/public_html
1. Open Site Tools' File Manager
2. Back up first
3. Show hidden files
4. Move the old site out of the web folder
5. Upload the zip and extract it
6. Make sure index.html is the front page
7. Open your site
8. Keep the padlock (HTTPS)
Their help article
DreamHost

panel.dreamhost.com → Websites → Manage Websites → Manage → Content → File Manager → /home/username/{domain}
1. Open the File Manager of your site
2. Back up first
3. Move the old site out of the web folder
4. Upload the zip and extract it
5. Make sure index.html is the front page
6. Open your site
7. Keep the padlock (HTTPS)
Their help article
hosting.com

my.hosting.com → Products & Services → Hosting & Servers → Login to Control Panel → Tools → Files → File Manager → public_html
1. Open cPanel's File Manager
2. Show hidden files
3. Back up first
4. Move the old site out of the web folder
5. Upload the zip and extract it
6. Make sure index.html is the front page
7. Open your site
8. Keep the padlock (HTTPS)
Their help article
Name.com

name.com → My Products → Hosting → Web Hosting Dashboard → cPanel Login → File Manager → public_html
1. Open cPanel from your hosting dashboard
2. Show hidden files
3. Back up first
4. Move the old site out of the web folder
5. Upload the zip and extract it
6. Make sure index.html is the front page
7. Open your site
8. Keep the padlock (HTTPS)
Their help article
Porkbun

porkbun.com → Domain Management → house icon (Static Hosting) or Web Hosting → Launch cPanel → File Manager → public_html
1. Pick the Porkbun product you have
2. Show hidden files
3. Back up first
4. Move the old site out of the web folder
5. Upload the zip and extract it
6. Make sure index.html is the front page
7. Open your site
8. Keep the padlock (HTTPS)
Their help article
Gandi

gandi.net → Simple Hosting → your instance → sFTP (port 22, deploy token); no File Manager
1. Open your hosting's sFTP details
2. Connect with FileZilla
3. Back up first
4. Move the old site out of the web folder
5. Upload the zip and extract it
6. Make sure index.html is the front page
7. Open your site
8. Keep the padlock (HTTPS)
Their help article
your web host (Cloudflare is not it)

Cloudflare runs your DNS only; the files go to the company that hosts the site, or to Cloudflare Pages (free)
1. Know where your site really lives
2. Pages: create the project
3. Pages: drag the folder and deploy
4. Pages: your domain
5. Open your site
6. Back up the old site, keep your email
Their help article
your hosting's File Manager

the company you PAY for hosting (not WordPress) → cPanel → File Manager → public_html
1. Sign in where you pay for hosting
2. Show hidden files
3. Back up first
4. Move the old site out of the web folder
5. Upload the zip and extract it
6. Make sure index.html is the front page
7. Open your site
8. Keep the padlock (HTTPS)
your cPanel host

where you pay for hosting → cPanel → Files → File Manager → public_html
1. Open cPanel's File Manager
2. Show hidden files
3. Back up first
4. Move the old site out of the web folder
5. Upload the zip and extract it
6. Make sure index.html is the front page
7. Open your site
8. Keep the padlock (HTTPS)
Their help article
your Plesk host

where you pay for hosting → Plesk → Websites & Domains → Files → httpdocs
1. Open Plesk's File Manager
2. Back up first
3. Move the old site out of the web folder
4. Upload the zip and extract it
5. Make sure index.html is the front page
6. Open your site
7. Keep the padlock (HTTPS)
Their help article
your host, by SFTP

your host's FTP / SFTP page (host, user, password, port) + FileZilla
1. Get the connection details
2. Connect and find the web folder
3. Back up first
4. Move the old site out of the web folder
5. Upload the zip and extract it
6. Make sure index.html is the front page
7. Open your site
8. Keep the padlock (HTTPS)
Their help article
a web host you choose

{platform} takes no folder of files; the files go to {dest} (or keep the hosted plan)
1. Know where you stand
2. Option A · The hosted plan instead
3. Option B · A regular web host for the files
4. Option C · Move the domain (last resort)
5. Option D · Leave {platform} last
your web host

{platform} manages your domain but hosts no websites; the files go to the company that hosts your site, or to a host you pick
1. Where the files cannot go
2. Pick a web host
3. Upload the zip and extract it
4. Point your domain at the new host
5. Open your site
your hosting provider

where you pay for the website hosting → File Manager (often inside cPanel) or FTP → the web folder
1. Sign in where you pay for hosting
2. Show hidden files
3. Back up first
4. Move the old site out of the web folder
5. Upload the zip and extract it
6. Make sure index.html is the front page
7. Open your site
8. Keep the padlock (HTTPS)