Saturday, December 15, 2012

How to Use Ftp To Transfer Files To Your Website

By Sandy Soul


Using ftp service to transfer files to the website is a popular method because the various services offered by it and the simple and easy steps required to set up a small ftp connection to a specific web site which help greatly to save time and effort of the web masters . But ftp protocol isn't the only service the website owners can depend on it , There are another browser based method which have less features than ftp but it can offer a quick solution to mange the files in any web site .

May be the second option don't permit you to do many operations on your web site files like uploading and downloading or resuming file transfer but it still have a lot of helpful tools and services that didn't require the user to install local ftp application and create different ftp accounts to connect to the ftp server . So it can be a back up method to the ftp option .

What The file manager option do is to use the web browser to display the different website contents like webpages and media files . It didn't require you to use any other program to connect to your website server to make operations in them . You just need to log on to your cpanel and from the files section you can choose the file manager or the legacy file manager and select the starting folder .

To Use Ftp Method you must install ftp client in your local computer and configure this client with the required information of the ftp account . To create new ftp account you should log in to your website Cpanel then from the files section select Ftp accounts , another page will appear and you will be able to find the already created Ftp account , If you want to choose one of them to log in the ftp server click on it and the required information will be displayed put these information to the ftp client and log in to the server to manage the web site files .

Try to Purchase your web hosting plan from a good hosting provider which offer among their services a reliable ftp services some company give you unlimited Ftp services they enable you to have unlimited web space for your ftp accounts and also you can create ftp accounts as many as you want . Try also to get benefit from the valuable discounts offered by some companies for example hostgator coupon code .

In the files section of the cpanel program you will find a tool called the legacy file manger , this tool is complementary to the original file manager tool . the two services ftp and file manager can be used together each to specific job to make the file operations jobs more easier .




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