If you need to restore your website from this backup, you can ( use FileZilla to upload your website files.You now have a backup of your website’s files on your computer. To download your website to your computer, select all of your website’s files and directories, and then drag them from the Remote Site area into the Local Site area.In the Local Site area, open a folder on your computer where you want to store the backup.In the Remote Site area, open your website’s root directory (cPanel / Plesk / Web & Classic).Your FTP password (cPanel / Plesk / Web & Classic) Filezilla is a program that help you to connect GoDaddy FTP. Your FTP username ( cPanel / Plesk / Web & Classic) FTP file transfer protocol help web-masters to upload and download web-pages from server easily. Your domain name or IP address ( cPanel / Plesk / Web & Classic) Note: To make sure you use the right information, it helps to know what type of hosting account you have. Complete the following fields, and then click Quickconnect.Download, install, and launch FileZilla.You need to back up both your website files and your databases to create a full backup. WordPress, Drupal), make sure that you also make a backup of those databases ( cPanel / Plesk / Web & Classic). Set up FileZilla that way, and all works as expected.Warning: If your website uses databases (e.g. The secondary FTP accounts have to use FTP transferred over TLS. Only the primary account is permitted SSH access, so it is the only account which can do FTP over SSH.
To be cleaner, should probably add a TLS certificate to my site. This creates a certificate warning on first connect which in my case, no choice but to accept. (update: June 2021 – site also has TLS certificate installed). Notice that while my GoDaddy domain does not have TLS support installed, the GoDaddy FTP site does. In the first hit to the site, the TLS certificate for the GoDaddy FTP site will be downloaded into FileZilla and retained for comparison on future connections. Primary account is shown below for comparison, the difference is that the Protocol is “SFTP – SSH File Transfer Protocol”.īack to the secondary account. Notice that the above FTP configuration for an alternate account is different than the FTP configuration for the primary account. When setting up the alternate FTP account in FileZilla, set the protocol to FTP and the Encryption to “require Explicit FTP over TLS”.
Enter an account name, password and click “Create FTP Account”. In my case, the primary SFTP account was already in place the panel below is the GoDaddy Gateway page for creating and managing FTP Accounts. This was a large enough headache for me that I share the details here so some others may be able to avoid the same issue. The trick is that while the primary FTP account uses SFTP, the secondary accounts need to be configured for FTP over TLS. Setting up a secondary FTP account for GoDaddy CPanel hosting requires different configuration than I expected.
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