FTP

FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol. It's about the easier and most convenient way of transferring data between two computers since the advent of the Internet. A number of easy to use clients are available, whether you chose to be using Windows 95, 98, NT, 2000 or Unix. For the Windows users our there, you can download a simple to use FTP program from our download area.

When using these or other clients, you will need three pieces of information :-

Name of the FTP server: This will be interact.uv.net. Make sure you get this correct or you will be connect to the wrong computer and it's quite likely that you will be refused a connection.

Your username: Enter this in lowercase, This is also sometimes called your account name or your pop3 username.

Your password: This will be the same as your dial-up account password and your pop3 email password.

When you finally establish a connection to our ftp server, you will be taken to your own private area. You will also see a number of directories, e.g. ftp, system, www. The directory that you will need to transfer your website into is the www directory.