FTP, which is an acronym for File Transfer Protocol, is one of the most famous means of uploading and downloading website files between a computer system and a server. With an FTP software program like FileZilla, you can make a connection to your web hosting account and drag ‘n’ drop files or whole directories in both directions and the software will do the rest. There’re several pluses of using File Transfer Protocol, among them the ability to restart a download/upload when there is a problem with the FTP connection or the ability to use different FTP accounts. With the latter option, you can create FTP users that can connect only to particular folders in your web hosting account, but no other folders, emails or any other information, which makes it the ideal option particularly in case you need to give a web designer access, for instance. You can also use an FTP account with popular website building applications like FrontPage or Dreamweaver and upload the websites that you’ve created straight from them, without the need to resort to 3rd-party software.
FTP Accounts in Cloud Hosting
You will be able to set up as many FTP accounts as you want with any of the cloud plans offered by us, as we’ve chosen not to restrict this feature. In this way, you can manage multiple Internet sites simultaneously or provide other people with access to different folders. As soon as a particular job has been accomplished and you don’t want that person to be able to access your website files any longer, you can edit the password for the given FTP account or you can just delete that account with a couple of mouse clicks and quit worrying about anybody using it once more. The Hepsia Control Panel, which is offered with all shared plans, will allow you to check the complete list of the active FTP accounts displayed in alphabetical order. It takes only a click to administer various options for any of them – to update the access path or the password, to download an auto-config file, etc.
FTP Accounts in Semi-dedicated Servers
Our semi-dedicated plans are extremely powerful, which makes them suitable for hosting numerous Internet sites. Speaking of which, we’ve chosen not to put a restriction on the number of FTP accounts that you can create, so you can have a different account for each site that you host on our cloud platform. All FTP accounts will be displayed alphabetically in the respective section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which is included with each and every semi-dedicated account. For each of them, you’ll be able to see the access path and to change it, if necessary. Also, you can set up the account in your preferred FTP client by downloading an auto-configuration file and installing it on your computer, which will save you time. In case you have never had a web hosting account previously, you can check our comprehensive how-to video clips, which are available in the exact same Control Panel section.
FTP Accounts in VPS Servers
None of the VPS plans offered by our company has a limit on the total number of FTP accounts that you can have at any given time, so you can set up a separate FTP account for each website hosted on the VPS, irrespective of whether it’s under a domain or sub-domain. Furthermore, it does not matter which Control Panel you will pick when you join – Hepsia, DirectAdmin or cPanel, since an FTP server will be set up on your virtual machine during the configuration of any of them. In case you want different people to establish an FTP connection to the same folder with their own set of sign-in credentials, for instance, it will take several clicks to set up a different FTP account for each of them. Removing an existing account or changing the directory that it can access is just as simple and you won’t come across any complication, even if you lack prior experience in such matters.