HostGator FTP & Hosting Tips

If you’re having problems with FTP and your HostGator site hosting, the following tips may help. Using FTP isn’t difficult, and hopefully your questions will be answered after reading this…

Where can I download an FTP client? There are several excellent (and some free) FTP software programs available to you. Some of these clients are better that others, here are a few of the better ones that you may want to check out:

• SmartFTP
• WS_FTP
• CuteFTP
• FTP Voyager

Help, my FTP isn’t connecting! If you’re having problems getting a FTP connection, there are several different issues that could be causing this to occur…

1. Certain FTP software programs may require you to enter a path in order to connect, such as /home/YOURUSERNAME/public_html
2. Are you using the IP address that arrived in your welcome email? Use only the numbers, don’t add ftp, www, etc.
3. Are you behind a firewall? If so, it could be blocking your connection.
4. Be sure to use the same username and password as used for your control panel.