The Blexio Hosting File Manager

Transferring data files between your computer and any of your sites is right now simple and fast, because of the drag & drop option available from the File Manager. You can drag data files from your PC and drop them in the Web Control Panel via secure SSL communication. That’s all. It takes seconds to add a file and a bit longer for bigger files and folders.

You don’t have to deploy any third–party computer software or Internet browser extensions. The drag’n’drop function contained in the File Manager performs equally efficiently on all leading OS’s.

We have given our best to make File Manager as intuitive as feasible, so it is possible to make changes for your files. Apart from the traditional command bar towards the top of the page, we have now also designed right–click contextual menus with the general file management possibilities. Click on a file or folder and pick the action that you’d like from the selection which will pop–up.

You can actually rename, copy, move, download, edit, preview, archive, unarchive and delete any file or folder you decide with just a click of the mouse. In the event you click on a folder, also you can generate a completely new folder or file inside it.

The right–click choices are conveniently obtainable when you choose different files or folders simultaneously.

Because of the built in archive/unarchive option, the File Manager will let you deal with substantial files without the need to use FTP. You are able to reduce the size of a folder to a small size by simply clicking on the Compress button or access the items in an archived folder through the Extract button. When compressing a directory as well as a variety of files, you are able to select the archive extension (.ZIP, .RAR or .TAR.GZ) and then the title of one’s archive file.

The File Manager helps to revise your files on the hosting server and never have to download, modify and after that re–upload them. You can actually change your files straight away online, using Blexio Hosting’s built–in editors. You will find a code editor provided with syntax highlighting for your .JS or .PHP files, a WYSIWYG editor for HTML files, and also a standard text editor for the more skilled end users.

You can access every single file editor with the right–click contextual menus. All of the adjusts made to the files will be shown at once online – you can directly examine them inside your browser.

Each of the files within your hosting account are neatly arranged into folders. Every single host features its own main folder, which uses the file structure you have created. By doing this, it is really effortless to control all your hosts from a single location without risk of getting lost or perplexed.

By default, you’ll see each of the hosts placed in a table and when you click once over a given host, you will see each of the sub–folders and files pertaining to it. By clicking two times, you are going to visit a page which is focused entirely on that host only. Another way to open the folder related to a specific host and then to use it exclusively, is to try using the drop–down menu at the top of the main File Manager file table.

The Blexio Hosting File Manager has been designed in such a way as to make you feel similarly to employing the file explorer on your personal computer. It provides a solution to drag your files and to drop them with a desired area and displays all of the accessible edit options upon clicking the right computer mouse button. At the same time, the tool has an inbuilt file preview option as well as other file editors enabling you to edit your files right away from your Web Control Panel.

Also, we’ve integrated a couple of file management posts and how–to instructional videos to help you fairly quickly find out how to work with the tool.

It is simple to handle a large number of files at the same time using the multi–selection ability of the Blexio Hosting File Manager. All you need to do is press the Control key and click on the files or folders that you’d like to pick. If you would like choose a number of files/folders in a row immediately, click the first file/folder, press the Shift key after which pick the final file or folder inside the group.

When you have selected the wanted files/folders, you may either drag them to a specific spot, or implement various activities to them using the right–click context menu as well as the buttons at the top of the file table.

Password protection is the greatest solution to constrain the ways to access an important element of your website that you don’t wish to be seen to every one. For instance, this might be a safe and secure members’ place or an area with copyrighted data that you want exclusively a number of individuals to access.

From your File Manager it is possible to password–guard your site as well as a specific directory inside it with only a click of the mouse. Just right–click a folder, pick Password Protection and fill out your user name and also pass word. You don’t have to handle .htaccess files or to make any extra configurations. In the future, simply the visitors who have your user name and password will gain access to your website.