Welcome to TalkGraphics Donna

I have moved this to the Web Design Chat forum.

This does not sound right. Have you tried publishing the site to a folder on your desktop and then using something like FileZilla to upload the pages and folders to your server? If you do this and the site still takes a long time to upload then it might be your own internet connection speed, or it might just be a problem with your web host.

You can test your connection upload and download speed here http://www.speedtest.net/ What speed do you get?