FTP is an acronym for File Transfer Protocol – en extremely popular method for uploading and downloading website files between a computer and a server. Using an FTP program like FileZilla or CuteFTP, you can connect to the server and view its content in one pane, while the files on your PC will be shown in another pane within the program window. All you’ll need to do to send files or entire folders in either direction is to mark them and then to drag them from one pane to the other. File Transfer Protocol is preferred by a lot of users because you can create different FTP accounts and each one can be limited to access just one directory on the server, so a designer, for example, can complete their job without being able to access any other directory in your website hosting account. Plus, the presence of different FTP accounts will also allow you to build numerous websites with web design apps like FrontPage or Dreamweaver and to upload them to their respective directories on the server.
FTP Accounts in Hosting
Any of the hosting plans that we are offering will enable you to set up unlimited FTP accounts, so you’ll be able to administer the content of your sites separately or to provide other people with access to any website in your hosting account. If you have a web design app pre-installed on your home PC, you will be able to manage numerous sites at once and to update them effortlessly. In case you give the login credentials to another person to perform a particular task, you will be able to edit the password for that FTP account or to remove it completely with only a few clicks and avoid any risk of unsolicited access to your content from then on. For convenience’s sake, all FTP accounts that you set up will be shown in alphabetical order in the corresponding section of your Hepsia hosting Control Panel.
FTP Accounts in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you host your websites in a semi-dedicated server account, you’ll be able to set up a separate FTP account for each of them, since we have not set a limit on this feature with any of our plans. You can accomplish this through the FTP section of our easy-to-navigate Hepsia Control Panel where you can also view the complete list of all the FTP accounts that you have set up, together with the folder that each one of them can access. If needed, you’ll be able to edit the password for a certain FTP account or to update its access path with a few clicks of the mouse. You can also delete an account without effort in case you don’t need it anymore – for example, if you’ve hired a web designer who is done with the Internet site and you don’t want them to connect to your files any longer. For the sake of convenience, we have prepared different instructional videos, that will help you manage your FTP accounts without efforts in case you’ve never used a web hosting package previously.
FTP Accounts in VPS Servers
None of the Linux VPS web hosting plans that we offer has any restriction on the total number of FTP accounts that you can manage at any moment, so you can set up a separate FTP account for any Internet site hosted on the server, no matter if it is under a domain or subdomain. In addition, it does not matter which Control Panel you’ll choose when you order – Hepsia, DirectAdmin or cPanel, as an FTP server will be set up on your virtual machine at the time of the installation of any of them. If you want different persons to be able to establish an FTP connection to the same directory using their own personal sign-in details, for instance, it will take several clicks to set up an FTP account for each one of them. Deleting an existing account or changing the folder that it can access is just as simple and you will not have to deal with any problem, even if you do not have any prior experience in such matters.