The Grand Island Web Hosting File Manager

Transferring files between your desktop machine and any of your sites is right now fast and simple, thanks to the drag’n’drop functionality delivered by the File Manager. You can pull data files from your PC and drop them in your Site Control Panel over a secure SSL communication. That’s all. It takes a few seconds to upload a data file and slightly longer for larger data files and directories.

There is no need to mount any third party software or Internet browser addons. The drag’n’drop function built into the File Manager works equally efficiently on all major OS’s.

On account of the right–click menus we’ve integrated in the File Manager, you’ll be able to manage your files in a time and effort saving manner. Just click on a file or directory and with the panel that will show up, decide on the actions that you’d like. It is possible to rename, copy, move, download, edit, preview, archive, unarchive and delete any picked file. When you click on a folder, you can also view the option to create a completely new sub–folder or file inside.

When you select many different files or folders, you will be able to apply identical actions to all of them at the same time.

The File Manager provides an internal archive/unarchive solution that will help you submit enormous archives and extract them into your hosting account in seconds. The moment compressing a file or folder, you will be able to decide on the name of the archive which is to be created along with its extension – .ZIP, .RAR or .TAR.GZ. Also, you will be able to archive already present folders or files with a click of the mouse.

The archive/unarchive alternative available at the File Manager lets you make use of massive files right from your Site Control Panel. No reason to use any third–party software for example an FTP client in order to upload a big file to your cloud hosting account or to download any archive in your desktop.

We’ve incorporated a number of file editors inside the Site Control Panel to help you to produce quick and simple transformations for your files and never have to use any third party software packages. Inside the File Manager you’ll find a WYSIWYG editor that will help you keep an eye on all the changes which you come up with right away, a code editor which includes syntax accentuating for your personal .JS or .PHP files, in addition to a plain text editor for more experienced users. Any changes that you create and keep are going to be reflected at once on the Internet.

You have access to the file editors using the buttons near the top of the file table and / or by right–clicking any file/folder.

Each of the files within your cloud hosting account are neatly sorted into folders. Each web host features its own main directory, which employs the file structure that you’ve created. Using this method, it is really easy to handle all of your current hosts in one location without risk of getting lost or perplexed.

By default, you will see all of the hosts indexed in a table and if you mouse–click once over a specific host, you will observe the whole set of sub–folders and files associated with it. By clicking on two times, you will go to a page that’s focused entirely on that host alone. An additional way to load the folder associated with a certain host and also to work with it exclusively, is by using the drop–down menu at the top of the main File Manager file table.

The Grand Island Web Hosting File Manager is designed in such a manner to make you feel like using the file explorer on your personal computer. It has an option to drag your files and then to drop them inside a preferred location and displays all the obtainable modification alternatives on clicking the right computer mouse button. Furthermore, the tool includes a built in file preview solution and other file editors to assist you manage your files live from your Site Control Panel.

Furthermore, we’ve enclosed a group of file management posts and how–to training videos to enable you rather quickly learn how to make use of the tool.

Using the Grand Island Web Hosting File Manager, you’ll be able to select many files or folders like you do on your desktop machine or notebook. Simply keep pressed the Control (Command for Mac OS) key and click on the desired files/folders. If you’d like, to select a considerable amount of files/folders simultaneously, click one file/folder, hold down the Shift key and click on any other file or folder.

Once you have selected all of the files that you need, you’ll be able to drag them into a pre–selected location, or use the right–click contextual menu to check out a listing of the available features.

There’s a single popular route to protect a folder using a pass word – by making an .htaccess file. In case, however, you are not technically qualified sufficiently, you will have issues performing it all on your own. To help make things simple for you, we’ve included a user–friendly password protection interface to the File Manager obtainable inside the Site Control Panel.

To employ the option, simply right–click on a directory and select Password Protection. Then set the user name as well as the security password that you’ll want to employ and press the button. That’s all. The picked directory is going to be undetectable by the regular website visitors and will be accessible only to previously approved visitors.