All web hosting accounts are handled via a CP and regardless of the brand of the latter, you can always find a File Manager tool, which lets you browse the files which you have uploaded in the hosting account and to execute simple operations with them, like moving, copying or deleting. With respect to the particular tool, there may be more advanced features also, including control over permissions and archives. Several Control Panels are easier to work with compared with others and so are their File Manager sections. Considering that that's the main tool that you'll employ to manage your files, it is essential to check in advance what options it comes with and if it shall appeal to you, because a hard-to-use File Manager may be a burden and can make managing your web presence harder.

File Manager in Cloud Hosting

The File Manager tool, that's part of our in-house made Hepsia Control Panel, allows you to administer all the files that you upload to your cloud hosting account without any difficulty. You can move files and entire folders by dragging-and-dropping them in the account. You could upload content in the same manner - pick a file/folder on your PC and drag it to your browser in which the File Manager is loaded. By right-clicking a file or a folder within your account, you could also access context menus with more sophisticated options - you will be able to create or to unpack an archive, to create a password-protected area, to modify the UNIX permissions through a web interface or to change the content with numerous editors without ever leaving the CP – a code editor, an HTML editor or a plain text editor. We've also provided help articles and instructional videos, you can access from the File Manager to learn more about its features.

File Manager in Semi-dedicated Servers

Our File Manager tool will allow you to do virtually anything you want. It's part of the Hepsia CP, which comes with all semi-dedicated server accounts and in addition to the regular features including renaming, copying or deleting files, you shall be able to use right-click menus to access more advanced ones. With a few clicks, you shall be able to password-protect any folder in the account, to modify the UNIX permissions if a script-based application requires it or to alter the content of any file using code, plain text and WYSIWYG editors. In addition, you'll no longer need an FTP program to upload new content given that you can just drag-and-drop files and entire folders from your pc straight to the File Manager. The tool shall do the rest, conserving the folder structure of the content that you upload.