Direct RSS feed publishing to your website using your desktop or mobile
phone
Your website will either be hosted on one of your servers or externally hosted
with a hosting company. The standard way of publishing files to
websites, especially with hosting companies, is to use FTP. FTP is File
Transport Protocol and you use an FTP client, such as the free Filezilla client,
to copy your website pages, images, PDF files, etc. to your website hosting space
so that they appear on your website. With a free RepeatServer.com
account, you can create a RSS feed file, normally called news.xml, and then copy
this file using an FTP client or your website software to your hosting space.
The key thing to doing this is storing your FTP connection details securely on
our site. Now, it is generally not good practice to let external companies
such our ourselves have access to your account details. This is because we
could, if we were maliciously inclined, update or hack your website.
There is a simple way around this. Many hosting companies will allow you
to add an FTP account to your website hosting from their online control panel.
You will normally specify a starting, or home directory, where an FTP user
starts from and cannot access folders or files below that point. So the securest thing would be to
create a folder on your website called 'feeds', 'RSS', or something similar,
which you can put your RSS feed files into. For example, you create a
folder called RSS and your main news feed file is called news.xml:
RSS/news.xml
that, when combined with your website's domain name gives you a file RSS URL
of:
http://www.yourwebsite.com/RSS/news.xml
which you then display on your
website.
When you have added an FTP site to your RSSFeedExpert.com account, you can
select this as the publishing location for any RSS feed you create in your
account. You can also specify the name and the folder it goes into.
What this means is that you can then use our service directly from any Internet
connected device including your desktop computer, tablet or mobile phone, and
update your news feeds 24/7 from anywhere. This is the core
advantage of our direct publishing service.
We also allow you to add user names and passwords for other employees to your
accounts. So if you have multiple RSS feeds, for different areas of your
business, then you could create a feed for each and assign a user to edit and
publish these. Each feed in your account allows individual access levels
for any user. We also have a full logging system in place so that
any activity on your account is logged with the user's name against. For
example, if a particular user adds a new item of news to an RSS feed and
publishes that news feed, both the add and the publish appear in the audit log
on your account.
See Subscription pricing for current
service details.