cPanel is well-known for its user-friendliness and hence, almost any task can be implemented with much ease within in. Once you have paid for your web hosting account to your host provider, you would wonder how would you able to use cPanel to access all administrative functions of your site with FTP. FTP is an acronym for File Transfer Protocol, and refers to a method through which content is uploaded to your website. With the help of an FTP client, you can collectively upload hundreds of files onto your site with ease instead of uploading them individually. An FTP client is nothing but a local program downloaded to your computer system, after which you use the login credentials provided to you by your web host for connecting to your web server and further uploading files on your site.

Basically, the FTP client forms a connection between your hard drive and the server of your website, to make it easier to update your website. Now for establishing the connection with your site server, you would need to set up an FTP account in your hosting account. Once the account is created, a set of login information would be provided to you that you can use with your FTP client. FTP clients are often free; so, you don’t have to worry about the cost, the most popular being FileZilla and SmartFTP.

Once the FTP client has been installed on your computer, you can easily access your hosting cPanel and transfer a large volume of files easily and quickly. To upload your files using FTP, you would need some form of FTP software that is available on Internet. WS_FTP Professional is a reliable paid version.

The web pages can be uploaded from within your control panel. You may access your control panel and select the public_html directory. Then click upload files and select all the files you wish to upload from your computer. Now click Go and you are done!

If you have allowed people to download or upload files on your website, you must keep track of your space usage through your Control Panel, such that the usage does not get close to the maximum allocation of space to avoid experiencing problems in accessing your website via FrontPage and hence, being unable to upload or modify files onto it.