All hosting accounts are managed through a Control Panel and whatever the type of the latter, there's always a File Manager tool, which lets you look into the files which you have uploaded inside the hosting account and to carry out basic operations with them, such as moving, copying or deleting. Based on the particular tool, there could be more complex functions as well, such as management of permissions and archives. Several Control Panels are easier to work with than others and so are their File Manager sections. As this is the primary tool you shall employ to manage your files, it is crucial to check in advance what options it comes with and if it'll work for you, because a hard-to-use File Manager could be a burden and could make managing your presence online more complicated.

File Manager in Website Hosting

The File Manager tool, that is part of our custom Hepsia CP, will enable you to administer all the files that you upload to your website hosting account with ease. You could move files and entire folders by dragging-and-dropping them within the account. You can easily upload content in the same way - select a file/folder on your computer system and drag it to your Internet browser where the File Manager is loaded. By right-clicking a file or a folder within your account, you can also access context menus with more sophisticated options - you'll be able to create or to unpack an archive, to create a password-protected area, to change the UNIX permissions using a web interface or to modify the content with a number of editors without ever leaving the CP – a plain text editor, a code editor or an HTML editor. We have also included help articles and educational videos, you can access straight from the File Manager to find out more about its capabilities.

File Manager in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Our highly developed, although easy-to-work with File Manager will provide you with total control over your content and you'll not have any problems handling the folders and files which you create or upload to your semi-dedicated server account, even though you may have never used an Internet hosting service before. The options it is providing are only a few clicks away, even the more complex ones such as setting up a password-protected folder, creating or unpacking an archive, changing UNIX permissions or opening a file in a plain text or an HTML editor. Using right-click context menus, you will feel as if you’re working on your home PC. What's more, the File Manager supports dragging-and-dropping of files and whole folders - both in the account and from your PC. With the latter option, you could upload content directly, which takes away the need for an FTP client.