How to upload a website?
So now you've purchased a hosting plan and you want to host a website. You will need just 3 things.
- Website
- 7-Zip (software)
- cPanel
1. Website
You should have a website in your local storage (computer). If you don't know how to make a website, it's very simple; you can search on YouTube like "portfolio website in WordPress", replacing "portfolio" with your niche.
2. 7zip
7-Zip is free software that you will need to compress your website files. You can download 7-Zip for Windows and Linux. Just go to https://www.7-zip.org/download.html and download according to your operating system, and just follow the instructions.
3. cPanel
If you buy web hosting from Hostcry, you will get cPanel on all of our packages. And if you purchased web hosting from another company, just make sure that they are giving you cPanel with it; most of them do.
How to compress the website for cPanel?
Just right-click on your website folder, there you will see a 7-Zip option ( that you have just installed on your computer ), hover on that, you will see a new list, just click on "add to archive" at the top.
Add to Archive
There you will see a new window, just select an active format to "tar" and click okay!
Now your website should be compressed and ready to host and upload to cPanel.
Go to your cPanel. if you have bought web hosting from hostcry, you should have received an email from hostcry with cPanel details. And if you've bought web hosting from another web hosting company, ask them for your cPanel address you probably have a cPanel address on your email and username, and password as well.
File Manager
When you log in to cPanel, you will see a lot of options available to you. Just click on "File Manager".
Open the folder named WWW
Open a folder named "www" on your cPanel. and click on the upload button located in the top navigation bar.
Select your file to upload
Drop or select the file you've just compressed, and your website is uploaded. Now you need to extract your file to the directory. Go back to the "www" directory and click on "your-website," and you will see the extract option. Click on it.
After extracting your website, you are done with hosting your website, and it was the easiest method to host a website.
How to link a domain to Hosting
just go to your domain provider website and click on domain settings. There you will see Management Tools. Click on it, and you will find nameservers, and click on "use custom nameservers" and set the nameservers of your hosting.
Hostcry Nameserver are:
Ns1.hostcry.com
Ns2.hostcry.com
After changing your name servers, it can take up to 2 days to fully link the domain to your website, but in some cases, it can just take a few hours.
Website Hosted
So your new site is hosted, congratulations. just visit yoursite.com and Walah..!!! your site is live. you can start by telling your friends about it.
