If your website is important to you, you should back up your site to protect against possible disk errors or other problems. Freeservers cannot guarantee that your web pages will not be lost due to some error, so we strongly reccommend that you maintain a backup of your site.

If you built your site on your hard drive and uploaded it to Freeservers, you already have a backup! However, if you are using the guestbook or the Form Emailer to collect information on your site, you will need to back up those files.

The best way to back up your site is by using a common FTP program. If you do not have one, there are many FTP programs that can be downloaded for free, such as WS FTP or CuteFTP.

To use your FTP program, you will need the following information:

• FTP address: your Freeservers domain
• Username: your Freeservers domain
  (the same as above)
• Password: your Freeservers password

Once you have logged in through FTP, just download all the files on your site to a directory on your hard drive.

That's it! You're backed up. If your website gets lost or corrupted, all you have to do is log in through FTP and upload all the files, and you'll be up and running again.

WARNING! Do NOT back up the HTML files in your site by using "Save As" from your browser when viewing the page. That will save the code which inserts the banner as part of your page. If you then upload the file, you will end up with extra banners on your page. (You can back up the graphics by the "Save As" method, though.)