The Seed Web Services File Manager

Adding files with an FTP client is an obsolete and really insecure method for relocating files from your personal computer to a web hosting server. By reason of this, we have included drag & drop data file publish support in the File Manager. Simply drag the data files that you need to upload from your desktop computer into your browser and they’ll begin to upload in your website hosting profile over a secure SSL connection.

You do not have to install any extra software pack, web browser extensions or web apps. The drag & drop functionality works just as well on Windows, Linux or Mac.

We’ve always given our best to make your File Manager as intuitive as it can be, so it is possible to come up with changes for your files. Aside from the conventional command bar towards the top of the webpage, we have now furthermore put in right–click contextual menus with the common file administration possibilities. Click on a file or folder and pick the actions that you want through the selection which will appear.

It’s possible to rename, copy, move, download, edit, preview, archive, unarchive and delete any file or folder you choose using a click of the mouse. When you click on a folder, it’s also possible to create a different directory or file in it.

The right–click option is also available at the time you pick numerous files or folders simultaneously.

The File Manager features an integrated archive/unarchive solution to assist you add enormous archives and extract them into your hosting account in the blink of an eye. Once compressing a file or folder, you’ll be able to select the title for the archive which is to be created and its extension – .ZIP, .RAR or .TAR.GZ. Also, it will be easy to archive current files or folders with simply a click of the mouse.

The archive/unarchive alternative you can find at the File Manager will allow you to work with huge files right from your Online Control Panel. No reason to make use of any third–party software like an FTP client in order to upload a big file onto your cloud hosting account or to download any archive in your desktop.

Our File Manager helps to edit your files directly on the server without having to download, modify and after that re–upload them. You can actually change your files directly online, working with our included editors. We offer a code editor having syntax emphasizing for your .JS or .PHP files, a WYSIWYG editor for HTML files, and a standard text editor for more experienced customers.

You have access to every single file editor with the right–click contextual menus. All of the changes produced to the files are reflected quickly online – you can directly preview them in your Internet browser.

Each of the files inside your hosting account are separated into directories. Every single host does have its primary directory, that follows the file structure that you have selected. By doing this, it is really easy to control all your hosts from one place with no risk of getting lost or confused.

By standard, you will notice all of the hosts conveniently placed in a table and when you click once on a specific host, you will see all the sub–folders and files related to it. By clicking twice, you will visit a webpage which is devoted to that host only. A further way to load the folder associated with a specific host and then to work with it exclusively, is using the drop–down menu at the top of the primary File Manager file table.

The Seed Web Services File Manager has been developed in such a way to make you feel similarly to using the services of the file explorer on your laptop. It provides you with a solution to drag your files and then to drop them inside a preferred area and displays all the accessible edit options upon clicking the right mouse button. At the same time, the tool has a built–in file preview solution as well as other file editors that will help change your files live directly from your Online Control Panel.

In addition, we have incorporated a set of file management articles and how–to training videos to enable you rather quickly learn how to make use of the tool.

When using the Seed Web Services File Manager, you can select a number of files or directories just like you do on your laptop or computer. Simply press the Control (Command for Mac OS) key and click on the wanted files/folders. If you would like, to choose lots of files/folders simultaneously, just click one file/folder, hold down the Shift key and then click any file or folder.

Once you have chosen the whole set of files that you need, you can actually drag them to a different folder, or take advantage of the right–click contextual menu to see a summary of the accessible actions.

There’s one standard route to secure a folder with a pass word – by creating an .htaccess file. In case, however, you are not technologically competent sufficiently, you’ll have difficulties executing it all by yourself. To help make things easy, we have added a convenient–to–use password protection user interface to the File Manager available in the Online Control Panel.

To use this option, simply right–click on a folder and select Password Protection. Then add the user name and the password that you’ll want to make use of and press the button. That’s it. Now the picked folder is undetectable by the standard users and will also be accessible just to previously approved visitors.