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gandi.net → Simple Hosting → your instance → sFTP (port 22, deploy token); no File Manager

1. 1. Open your hosting's sFTP details

   Go to gandi.net, sign in, open Simple Hosting and your instance. Note the sFTP Server, Login and create a Deploy token (your password for sFTP). Gandi has no File Manager: the steps use FileZilla.

2. 2. Connect with FileZilla

   In FileZilla: Host (the Server), Username (Login), Password (the Deploy token), Port 22 → Quickconnect. Open the folder your site uses (the Directory shown on the instance, usually htdocs [NV]).

3. 3. Back up first

   Drag the whole web folder to your computer: that copy is your backup.

4. 4. Move the old site out of the web folder

   On the server create old-site one level above the web folder and drag every old file and folder into it.

5. 5. Upload the zip and extract it

   Unzip yourbusiness-remo.zip on your computer and drag everything inside it into the web folder: index.html at its root.

6. 6. Make sure index.html is the front page

   Look in the Directory shown in your hosting for an old index.php, index.htm, default.html or default.php. If one is still there, move it into old-site: a server shows those before index.html. the Directory shown in your hosting/index.html must sit directly in the Directory shown in your hosting, not inside a folder.

7. 7. Open your site

   Open https://yourbusiness.com in a private window and click a few menu links. If the old site still shows, press Ctrl+F5; if it still does, an old index.php or index.htm is left in the Directory shown in your hosting (previous step).

8. 8. Keep the padlock (HTTPS)

   Gandi issues the certificate on the instance's domain settings; if the padlock is missing, check the SSL option of the instance. If the site opens as http:// without the padlock, ask me in the chat for the three-line .htaccess redirect, or turn on your host's Force HTTPS switch.

Watch out

• 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.
• An old index.php, index.htm or default.html left next to index.html wins: move it into old-site.
• Show Hidden Files before moving anything: a WordPress .htaccess left behind sends visitors to the old index.php.
• old-site belongs OUTSIDE the web folder (your home folder). Inside it, an old WordPress stays public and runnable.
• Never delete the old files: Compress → Download first, then Move. Moving them back undoes everything.
• Your email does not live in these folders; nothing here touches it. Do not cancel the old hosting if your email runs there (ask me).
• No File Manager at Gandi: an SFTP client (FileZilla, free) is the tool.
• The web folder's name is the Directory shown on the instance; [NV] whether it is htdocs on every plan.

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