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By: Christine Anderssen

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If you are using the very popular CPanel hosting control panel for your hosting, you might or might not know about the built in file manager. It is like a built-in FTP client and can be used to upload your website files to the hosting server

You might or might not know about FTP, which stands for File Transfer Protocol. This is a special program that you need to install on your PC to copy files to your hosting server.

Sometimes you use software programs that are installed on your server already to build your website, such as Joomla, Wordpress or other sitebuilding software. Sometimes these tools allow you to upload files without using an FTP client, but at some point you might run into a situation where you need to upload a number of files to your hosting server without using one of these tools.

It is at this point that you discover that you need something called an FTP client. An FTP client is therefore a piece of software that you install on your PC that will allow you to connect to your hosting server and to copy files. But you might not need to install an FTP client, your CPanel control panel of your hosting server already has the functionality built in to copy files to and from your hosting server.

You will have to log into your CPanel control panel with your username and password. Click on the link for 'File Manager' to open the built-in file manager utility.

You might be asked if you want to show hidden files (dot files) and whether you want to always visit the public_html folder first if you open the utility. Answer yes to these questions.

It offers a familiar type of interface where you can browse through the files on your server, with a tree type layout with folders on the left and files on the right hand side.

A neat trick to do is to be able to upload a number of files at the same time. At first glance it looks as if you can only upload one file at a time, but you can upload a number of files by using zipped files.

To upload a lot of files to the server at the same time, zip your files on your PC into a single zip, then choose the 'Upload files' option in your CPanel File manager. Upload the ZIP file into the location where you want the files to appear. After the file has been uploaded, choose the 'Extract' option. The ZIPped files will immediately be extracted from the ZIP archive and will appear in the folder where the ZIP file is located. It is much faster to upload one zip file than it is to upload multiple individual files and the unzipping process on the server is very fast!

To download a number of files, select the files that you want to download and then choose the 'Compress' option. Select 'zip' as the format. This will create a single zip file containing your files that you can then download to your PC.

These file management options make it really easy to quickly download and upload files if you do not have immediate access to an FTP client such as when you are traveling, or if you want to save time by zipping and unzipping files before uploading or downloading.

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Christine Anderssen is the owner of Tailormade4you and offers web design in South Africa as well as web hosting services tailored for Joomla

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