Problems loading pages and with FTP with my hosting provider

 For about 2 months, images were sometimes not loaded into my pages when served by my hosting provider 'Hostinger'.

Sometimes Chrome could not load a page at first but then found it.

Sometimes I also got errors transferring files with 'FTP'. I could not do a backup with 'FTP' because of these errors.

Maybe I should not complain as I chose a very good value 4-year deal when I moved my website from the free '000webhost' to Hostinger. Inflation since has made the deal seem even better.

So I get 'Hostinger' to generate a backup every week and download it. It is one big 'gzipped' 'tar' file. I request the backup in the middle of the week as Hostinger says the backup takes a few hours to prepare.  I download the backup at the end of the week.  The download takes only a few minutes. I checked this download file. However, Hostinger says there were some problems with their backups.

I tried using the web-based 'file manager' provided by 'Hostinger'. But I sometimes got network errors when I used this 'file manager' on the old Windows7 computers at my local public library.  So I went back to using 'FTP'. But the 'FTP' in the 'File Explorer' of Windows7 says passwords are sent in 'plain text'.

I can now transfer files and do a backup with 'FTP' without errors. but the backup is too slow taking over an hour. I could not seem to stop the slow backup and I ended up with errors on the extended 'FAT' file system on the memory stick where I store my backups. When I got Windows to 'fix' the file system, the recovery came to the end but did not finish. Still the file system ended up fixed.  I have read good things about the hosting provider 'fastcomet.com' and they have a cheap multi-year deal..

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