The Benoks Hosting File Manager

Submitting data files with an FTP client is an obsolete and really unsafe way for moving files from your desktop machine or notebook to a web hosting server. That’s why, we have integrated drag & drop file publish support in the File Manager. Simply drag the data files that you need to publish from your desktop computer into your Internet browser and they will begin to upload in your hosting profile through a protected SSL communication.

You don’t need to mount any additional software pack, browser plug–ins or applications. The drag–and–drop function works equally well on Windows, Linux or Mac.

Because of the right–click menus that we have included with the File Manager, it’s possible to alter your files in a time and effort saving manner. Just click on a file or directory and through the panel which will appear, find the action that you want. You’ll be able to rename, copy, move, download, edit, preview, archive, unarchive and delete virtually any selected file. When you click a folder, furthermore, you will view the option to create a different sub–folder or file inside it.

If you select numerous files or folders, it’s possible to apply the exact same procedures for all of them concurrently.

Compared with the vast majority of file management user interfaces and FTP clients, the Benoks Hosting Control Panel offers a solution to archive/unarchive files much more quickly. It is simple to operate. To have a folder shrunk into a lightweight size, simply pick it and then click the Compress button. To open up the items in an archived directory in your hosting account, select it and then click the Extract button. The File Manager supports a range of file extensions, including .ZIP, .RAR and .TAR.GZ.

From your File Manager it is possible to revise your files directly on the net using many of the built in tools. The text editor shows the files in a plain text format, the code editor provides syntax accentuating for your .PHP or .JS files, and the WYSIWYG editor lets you to see your modifications when they appear live. Any changes which you create and save will be displayed immediately on the world wide web, in order for you to examine them in your browser and return to create further edits, in case you are not happy with the result.

You don’t have to download any files whatsoever, to change them with your machine and to re–upload them into your cloud hosting account. Each of the editors are accessible through the buttons at the top of the file table or through the right–click contextual menus.

All the files within your website hosting account are neatly arranged into directories. Each host has its own primary folder, that follows the file structure you have selected. In this way, it is really effortless to manage all of your current hosts from one place without any risk of becoming lost or perplexed.

By standard, you will see all of the hosts conveniently listed in a table and when you click once on a specific host, you’ll see all of the sub–folders and files pertaining to it. By clicking on two times, you are going to visit a webpage which is centered on that host only. Another way to load the folder associated with a certain host and then to use it exclusively, is to try using the drop–down menu towards the top of the primary File Manager file table.

Most web File Managers are sluggish and hard to work with. They feature modest functions and generally aren’t really convenient–to–use. We seek to improve that by means of the Benoks Hosting File Manager. It was designed to be time and effort saving and to seem like an item you already know – the File Manager on your desktop.

All of its capabilities, the drag & drop file upload options, the right–click context menus, the inbuilt file editors, etcetera are there for 1 reason – to create handling your website(s) less of a challenge.

You can easily manage a plethora of files concurrently making use of the multi–selection capability of the Benoks Hosting File Manager. All that you should do is simply hold down the Control key and then click on the files or directories that you would like to select. Should you wish to choose a group of files/folders in a row at once, click on the first file/folder, hold down the Shift key and afterwards pick the very last file or folder in the collection.

When you have picked the required files/folders, you may either drag them to an alternative location, or apply different actions to them making use of right–click context menu as well as the buttons at the top of the file table.

To password–secure a directory in your web site, you need to make an .htaccess file manually. Expectedly, this is time–absorbing and sophisticated if you aren’t a specialist in website hosting. With our File Manager, you can create a password–secured folder and hide all of its contents from the standard users with only a couple of clicks.

What you need to execute is right–click a folder, pick Password Protection and afterwards pick the Add option. And then simply state a username together with a password. No further configuration is needed and there’s no reason to deal with an .htaccess file. Our system will handle every thing for you.