This series of FTP tutorials will walk you through the various FTP options in web hosting account control panel, things like setup additional FTP accounts, monitor and remove FTP sessions, change FTP account password etc. There is a section that briefly elaborate the steps for setting up FTP connections for connecting to hosting account using several popular FTP clients.
What is FTP ?
FTP (File transfer protocol) is a communication standard for transferring files between two computers. For every webmaster, knowing how to use an FTP client to upload download files is essential for day to day website development work. There are some development tools such as Dreamweaver that has an FTP client included in the tool easier for user to upload and download files to and from the server and local computer. Our Dreamweaver hosting packages fully support standard FTP upload download.
FTP connect using web browser
A part from using a full feature FTP client such as CuteFTP, FileZilla etc., most web browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Mozilla etc.) does offer a simple FTP connection. All you need is to enter ftp://yourdomain.com at the URL bar and your web browser will know what to do with it. However, using a web browser for FTP connection is not as convenient as using a FTP client, it is mainly suitable for a quick upload download of one or two small file.
