The American Host Land, Inc. File Manager

Adding files with an FTP client is an outdated and quite an unsafe way of relocating files from your personal computer to a hosting server. That’s why, we have integrated drag’n’drop data file publish support in the File Manager. Just drag the data files that you need to publish from your desktop into your browser and they’ll begin to publish in your website hosting account through a risk–free SSL communication.

You don’t need to set up any extra software package, web browser plug–ins or applications. The drag–and–drop feature works just as well on Windows, Linux and Mac.

The majority of File Managers include all the activities that one can carry out within a file or folder on the top of the page. We think that the latter is not intuitive enough. Using the File Manager, you have access to all file administration options whenever you right–click a file or folder. This method is also applicable for numerous files/folders.

You can actually rename, copy, move, download, edit, preview, archive, unarchive and delete every file or directory you decide with only a mouse–click.

As opposed to nearly all file management user interfaces and FTP clients, the American Host Land, Inc. Website Control Panel features an option to archive/unarchive files quicker. It is intuitive. To get a directory reduced into a small size, all you need to do is select it and click on the Compress button. To unwrap the items in an archived directory within your account, choose it and then click the Extract button. The File Manager works with numerous file extensions, including .ZIP, .RAR and .TAR.GZ.

We’ve integrated a number of file editors inside the Website Control Panel to assist you make quick and easy alterations for your files without needing to employ any third party software. With the File Manager there is also a WYSIWYG editor that will assist you check any changes you come up with immediately, a code editor which includes syntax emphasizing for your .JS or .PHP files, as well as a plain text editor for more experienced users. Any changes that you come up with and save can be demonstrated at once on the web.

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

All the files in your web hosting account are separated into folders. Every web host has its own primary directory, that uses the file structure that you’ve pre–set. By doing this, it is very easy to deal with all your hosts from a single place without any risk of getting lost or perplexed.

By default, you will notice each of the hosts mentioned in a table and when you mouse–click once over a specific host, you will see each of the sub–folders and files pertaining to it. By clicking two times, you will visit a page that’s focused entirely on that host only. A different way to load the folder associated with a particular host and also to use it exclusively, is to try using the drop–down menu at the top of the primary File Manager file table.

The vast majority of web File Managers are slow and challenging to apply. They have limited functions and certainly are not really simple to use. We hope to transform that with the American Host Land, Inc. File Manager. It is created to be user–friendly and to resemble an item you are already well aware of – the File Manager on your computer.

All of its features, the drag’n’drop file upload options, the right–click contextual menus, the in–built file editors, etcetera are available for just one purpose – to make taking care of your site(s) less of a challenge.

Using the American Host Land, Inc. File Manager, you can choose various files or folders exactly like you do on your desktop machine or notebook. Just press the Control (Command for Mac OS) key and then click the desired files/folders. In case you’d like, to pick lots of files/folders at once, simply click a single file/folder, press the Shift key and then click any file or folder.

Having once selected all of the files that you’ll require, it is possible to drag them into a specified location, or use the right–click contextual menu to see a list of the available features.

There is a single prevalent way to protect a folder using a security password – by creating an .htaccess file. In case, however, you’re not technically skilled sufficiently, you will have difficulties doing the work without any help. To help make things simple, we have included an easy–to–work–with password protection interface to the File Manager available within the Website Control Panel.

To use the option, just right–click on a directory and pick Password Protection. Then choose the user name plus the pass word that you would like to make use of and then click on the button. That’s it. Now the selected directory is hidden from the public eye and will also be accessible only to previously approved visitors.