sounds like you just registered a domain name and purchased a web hosting package? if so your web host (godaddygo) should have supplied all that information (server name, username/pw, where to drop your files, etc.)
in general a host would give you a username/pw which you would use to a) sign in to some site to manage your account, b) sign into the ftp server, c) possibly use to sign into an email account that came with the package.
for ftp access to your web files it would typically be something like this
- if your domain was mywebsite.com the host name you use with your ftp software might be
ftp.mywebsite.com (just an example - godaddy should give you that information)
once you login through ftp, yes you would typically see a folder called public_html - this is where you copy all your website files - once they are there then people access them by going to
http://www.mywebsite.com (and any subfolder name you decide to create under the public_html folder)
you may also see a public_ftp folder - this is typically used to store files that you want to give access for downloading (software, movie files, etc.).
hope this helps - write back if you need more.
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