Managing Your Hosting Account’s Files – Web & Classic Hosting

Your hosting account is on a computer — just like a personal computer. So, just like a personal computer you can manage your website’s files and directories, with tasks like:

  • Uploading
  • Moving
  • Archiving (zipping) and unarchiving

Changes you make through your hosting account’s file manager will take effect on the Internet immediately.

Manage Your Hosting Account’s Files

  1. Log in to your IFindHost – CheapDomainRegistration.com account.
  2. Click Web Hosting.
  3. Next to the account you want to use, click Manage.
  4. From the Files & FTP menu, select File Manager.
  5. Use the File Manager’s following tools:
Button Use it to…
File Icon Double-click any file to open it in a text editor.
Upload Upload files from your computer.
New Create new files or directories.
Move Change the selected file’s or directory’s parent directory.
Download Download selected files from your hosting account to your computer.
Privacy Change the file’s permissions.
Delete Remove the selected files from your hosting account.
Rename Change the file’s or directory’s name.
Duplicate Create a duplicate copy of the selected file or directory.
Archive Create an archive file containing the selected content.
Extract Open an archive file to reveal its contents.
Symbolic Link Create a symbolic link to other files in your account (more info).
Properties Display information about the selected file or directory.
Enable history view (Linux only) Use the hosting account’s built-in history tool to restore files (more info).

What is my website’s root directory? – Web & Classic Hosting

The root directory of your website is the content that loads when visitors access your domain name in a Web browser. The most obvious consequence of this is that you need to put your “index file” in your website’s root directory for visitors to see your site at all (more info).

Website-related applications might also need to know your website’s root directory.

Your website’s root directory depends on whether the domain name is your primary domain name or another type (more info).

Your primary domain name‘s root directory is the root of the hosting account, which can be symbolized as a single forward slash (i.e. “/” without the quotation marks), or as an entirely blank field.

Secondary and subdomain names’ root directories were specified when they were set up. You can find them listed in the Hosting Control Panel.

To Find Secondary and Subdomains’ Root Directories

  1. Log in to your IFindHost – CheapDomainRegistration.com account.
  2. Click Hosting.
  3. Next to the account you want to use, click Manage.
  4. In the Settings section, click Hosted Domains.

Secondary domain names’ root directories display in the Folder field.

To find a subdomain’s root directory, click the “parent” domain name. All of that domain name’s subdomains display, along with their root directories in the Folder field.

Upload files – Web & Classic Hosting

Your hosting account has a built-in file manager you can use to upload files to your hosting account.

  1. Log in to your IFindHost – CheapDomainRegistration.com account.
  2. Click Web Hosting.
  3. Next to the hosting account you want to use, click Manage.
  4. In the Tools section, click File Manager.
  5. Use the directory tree to select the folder you want to upload the file to.
  6. Click Upload.
  7. Select to Add file or Add folder. You can upload up to 250MB at a time.
  8. Select the file or folder to upload.
  9. Click Upload.

Back up your website – Web & Classic Hosting Help

Keeping a backup of your website is a wonderful idea. It provides insurance against all types of setbacks, such as security compromises and inadvertently deleting your entire site (it happens).

We suggest backing up your site before you make changes each and every time. That way, if something goes awry, you have a fresh copy that you know is working. It might seem like a hassle, but the first time you use a backup, you’re going to pat yourself on the back for having so much foresight.

Databases

If your hosting account has any databases, back them up first. This puts copies of your databases in a directory called _db_backups so you can download them later.

For more information, see the Backing up a MySQL or MSSQL Databasesection of Backing up and Restoring MySQL or MSSQL Databases.

Your Website

The easiest way to back up your website is with a File Transfer Protocol (FTP) client. This lets you connect your local computer to your hosting account and move files between them. To back up your website, you’ll just copy all of the files from your hosting account to your local computer.

We recommend using FileZilla. For more information, see Backup your website with FTP and FileZilla.

It’s a good idea to keep these backups in a unique folder on your computer called something like website backups. In that folder, create another folder with the date you created the backup, e.g. feb2013 — put all of your files in here. This way, you can easily figure out when you created each backup in case you need to use one.

Restores

After backing up your hosting account, you can use the backup to restore it (more info).