All hosting accounts are managed from a Control Panel and irrespective of the type of the latter, you can always find a File Manager tool, which lets you look into the files that you've uploaded inside the web hosting account and to perform basic operations with them, like moving, copying or deleting. With respect to the specific tool, there may be more complex features also, such as control over permissions and archives. Several Control Panels are easier to use than others and so are their File Manager sections. As that's the main tool you shall use to handle your files, it is critical to check in advance what options it includes and if it will appeal to you, because a hard-to-use File Manager may be a burden and could make managing your presence online harder.

File Manager in Shared Website Hosting

The File Manager tool, which is part of our in-house developed Hepsia CP, allows you to administer all of the files which you upload to your shared website hosting account effortlessly. You are able to 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 and drag it to your web browser where the File Manager is loaded. By right-clicking a file or a folder inside your account, you could also access context menus with more sophisticated options - you shall be able to create or to unpack an archive, to set up a password-protected area, to modify the UNIX permissions using a web interface or to change the content with a variety of editors without ever leaving the Control Panel – a plain text editor, a code editor or an HTML editor. We have also added help articles and instructional videos, you can access from the File Manager to find out more about its functions.