The Best247Hosting.com File Manager

Publishing files with an FTP tool is an obsolete and quite an insecure way of shifting data files from your desktop computer or laptop to a web hosting server. For this reason, we have included drag & drop data file upload support in the File Manager. Just pull the data files that you need to upload from your desktop computer into your Internet browser and they will start to upload in your hosting profile over a safe SSL communication.

You don’t have to deploy any extra software, browser extensions or apps. The drag–and–drop feature works just as well on Windows, Mac and Linux.

We have tried to make File Manager as intuitive as it can be, so it is possible to come up with alterations to your files. Apart from the normal control bar at the top of the page, we have furthermore included right–click context menus with the general file administration choices. Just click on a file or directory and select the activity you’d like to have through the collection which will show up.

You’ll be able to rename, copy, move, download, edit, preview, archive, unarchive and delete any file or directory you select using a mouse–click. When you click on a folder, also you can establish a completely new folder or file within it.

The right–click choices are available as well if you pick multiple files or folders at the same time.

Due to the inbuilt archive/unarchive solution, the File Manager enables you to work with enormous files and never have to use FTP. You are able to reduce the size of a directory into a compact size by simply clicking on the Compress button or access the belongings in an archived folder through the Extract button. Whenever compressing a directory as well as a bunch of files, it will be easy to select the archive extension (.ZIP, .RAR or .TAR.GZ) as well as the name of the archive file.

Through the File Manager it is possible to edit your files directly on the net when using many of the built in software instruments. The text editor reveals the files with a plain text formatting, the code editor provides syntax emphasizing for one’s .PHP or .JS files, and the WYSIWYG editor really helps you to see your modifications as they show up live. All the changes which you make and save are going to be shown immediately on the net, allowing you to review them with your web browser and go back to make further edits, if not satisfied.

There’s no need to download any files whatsoever, to change them in your desktop computer and to re–upload them back into your cloud hosting account. All the editors are accessible using the buttons near the top of the file table or at the right–click contextual menus.

All the files inside your cloud hosting account are neatly sorted into folders. Every web host features its own primary folder, which uses the file hierarchy you have selected. Using this method, it is an easy task to control all your hosts from a single place without the probability of getting lost or baffled.

By default, you will see all of the hosts conveniently placed in a table and when you click once on a specific host, you will observe all of the sub–folders and files related to it. By clicking on twice, you are going to visit a page that is centered on that host alone. An additional way to load the folder pertaining to a given host and also to work with it solely, is by using the drop–down menu towards the top of the main File Manager file table.

The Best247Hosting.com File Manager is created in such a way as to help you feel just like using the services of the file explorer on your computer system. It provides you with a solution to drag your files and to drop them with a desired area and indicates all the obtainable edit opportunities on clicking the right mouse button. Furthermore, the tool provides an integrated file preview solution and various file editors that will help you revise your files quickly directly from your Hosting Control Panel.

Additionally, we have incorporated a group of file management articles and how–to instructional videos to enable you quickly learn how to work with the tool.

Our File Manager can save you lots of time when you use many different files. It is easy to choose many different files at any given time and apply a desired action to them precisely like you do with your desktop computer or laptop. To select arbitrary files at once, simply keep pressed the Control key, and to choose a group of adjacent files, use the Shift key. It is that straightforward.

Once you have chosen the files, you’ll be able to automatically move them to a different place thanks to the drag & drop option. With the help of the right–click contextual menu along with the buttons on top of the file table, you can actually apply a number of other actions – you are able to copy, rename, delete, download and revise your files, alter file permissions, etcetera.

There’s one typical way to protect a folder with a password – by making an .htaccess file. In case, however, you aren’t technologically experienced sufficiently, you will have difficulties doing the work all by yourself. To generate things simple for you, we’ve added an uncomplicated password protection interface to the File Manager available within the Hosting Control Panel.

To use this option, simply right–click on a directory and select Password Protection. Following that fill out the username as well as the pass word that you would like to make use of and press the button. That’s it. The picked directory is going to be hidden from the public eye and will also be accessible to authorized visitors.