The Town Geek Web Hosting File Manager
You can forget about FTP clients using our File Manager

When using the Town Geek Web Hosting Website Control Panel, you’ll get access to our feature–rich File Manager. It’ll enable you to promptly manage all of your websites without having to turn to an FTP client. You could publish files over a risk–free connection by dragging them into the browser. Also, you could speedily archive and unarchive files and directories, create password–protected locations, modify data file permissions and so much more. Check out the features found in our File Manager.
Drag–and–drop file uploads
Upload data files without difficulty
Moving files between your PC and any of your websites is now quick and simple, thanks to the drag’n’drop feature available from the File Manager. You can easily drag data files from your PC and drop them in your Website Control Panel through a secure SSL connection. That’s all. It will take a few seconds to add a data file and a little bit longer for any larger files and directories.
You don’t have to deploy any third–party software package or web browser plugins. The drag’n’drop feature contained in the File Manager operates just as well on all main operating systems.
Right–click context menus
All file administration possibilities at your disposal
We have tried to make the File Manager as intuitive as possible, so you can make modifications for your files. Besides the standard command bar towards the top of the page, we have now additionally introduced right–click context menus with all the current common file administration possibilities. Click on a file or folder and choose the activity you’d like to have through the list that will show up.
You’re able to rename, copy, move, download, edit, preview, archive, unarchive and delete any file or folder you select using a mouse–click. If you click on a directory, you can also generate a different folder or file inside it.
The right–click option is available as well if you choose numerous files or folders at once.
Archive/Unarchive files
Maintain archives with merely a mouse–click
The File Manager comes with an inbuilt archive/unarchive solution that will assist you submit huge archives and extract them in your cloud hosting account in seconds. Once compressing a file or directory, you are able to decide on the name of the archive that’ll be created and its particular extension – .ZIP, .RAR or .TAR.GZ. Also, it will be easy to compress active folders or files with only a mouse–click.
The archive/unarchive option available at the File Manager permits you to work with huge files directly from your Website Control Panel. No need to make use of any third–party software such as an FTP client as a way to upload a large file in your website hosting account or download an archive in your desktop.
Online file editors
The best approach to modify your files
The File Manager enables you to change your files on the server and never have to download, change and after that re–upload them. It’s possible to modify your files directly on the net, using our inbuilt editors. You will find a code editor offering syntax emphasizing for your .PHP or .JS files, a WYSIWYG editor for HTML files, plus a regular text editor for the more skilled end users.
You have access to every file editor through the right–click context menus. All corrections made to the files will be shown immediately online – you are able to directly preview them in your browser.
A logical folder structure
Your files arranged inside a convenient way
When you’re managing a great number of sites at the same time, it’s crucial for you to have every little thing arranged. With some other File Managers, updating a lot of web sites inside the same hosting account can be quite challenging. With the File Manager, you will see that it’s in fact really simple. Every website does have its own folder, which you can right away recognize, and all of the files associated with the specified web site are situated there.
And to make things even easier, you will find a drop–down menu from where it’s easy to select on exactly which host you wish to work in the File Manager. Our smart system will lead you there within seconds.
A user–friendly interface
Maintain your files with just a mouse–click
The Town Geek Web Hosting File Manager was designed in such a manner as to help you feel just like making use of the file explorer on your personal computer. It functions a possibility to drag your files and then to drop them with a preferred location and reveals all the available edit alternatives upon clicking the right mouse button. Furthermore, the tool provides an in–built file preview option and various file editors that will help revise your files live directly from your Website Control Panel.
Also, we have bundled a set of file management articles and how–to video lessons to enable you fairly quickly learn how to make use of the tool.
Work with multiple files
Transform a number of files at the same time
It is easy to make use of a large number of files simultaneously employing the multi–selection capacity of the Town Geek Web Hosting File Manager. Everything you should do is simply press the Control key and click on the files or directories that you’d like to choose. Should you wish to select a variety of files/folders in a row immediately, click on the first file/folder, hold down the Shift key and then choose the final file or folder in the collection.
When you have selected the desired files/folders, you can either drag them to a specific place, or implement different actions to them when using the right–click contextual menu as well as the buttons near the top of the file table.
1–click password protection options
The easiest way to shield your details
Password protection is the foremost route to control the access to a selected element of your website you do not wish to be visible to everyone. As an example, this can be a safe and secure members’ place or even an area with copyrighted data that you would like only a number of individuals to view.
Through the File Manager you’ll be able to password–guard your site or maybe a particular directory inside it with merely a mouse–click. Just right–click a directory, choose Password Protection and add the user name and security password. There is no need to take care of .htaccess files as well as to try to make any other adjustments. In the future, only the visitors which have your login name and pass word will gain access to your web site.