Ftp upload taking an age

just a quick question.

My edge rails app is taking an age to upload as a collection of
files/folders.

I was thinking about ziping up the app to save transfer time, but being
new to linux I am not sure how to unzip at the bluehost end ?

put it in a .tar would be the easiest from a Windows standpoint. The
command to untar on linux is tar xvf [filename]

Jason

cheers