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How to access your hosting cPanel using FTP?
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 dont 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.
How to access your hosting cPanel using FTP?
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 dont 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.
How to view bandwidth usage in WHM?
You would find that there are plenty of options in the cPanel and WHM screens where you would find the bandwidth usage information. For example you can find the information after logging into WHM and then going to Account Information and then choosing the menu View Bandwidth Usage.
It is always better if you view bandwidth usage in WHM and cPanel. This is because the bandwidth usage report that is generated in WHM will include a detail study of the total bandwidth that is used by the websites as well as the number of incoming requests.
You would find that there are plenty of options in the cPanel and WHM screens where you would find the bandwidth usage information. For example you can find the information after logging into WHM and then going to Account Information and then choosing the menu View Bandwidth Usage. It will give you the complete account of the total bandwidth used. Also you can further search the Limit Bandwidth Usage in the WHM or go to cPanel and then go to the Stats option and find out the “Monthly Bandwidth Transfer”. You can also find out day to day bandwidth usage by going to cPanel and then to Logs and from there to Bandwidth and here click on “Select the domain” and then choose “Bandwidth By Day”.
It is always better that you use the bandwidth measurement report generated by cPanel and WHM because they are more comprehensive in comparison to the log analysis programs which are good for having information about the referrals, hit statistics and so on.
There are other advantages of using WHM for seeing the bandwidth usage. Here you can set the bandwidth processing cycles as per your wish. For this you need to go to the Server Configuration tab and there choose the Statistics Software Configuration Screen. From here go the Bandwidth Processing Frequency screen which is under the Schedule Configuration screen. Here you can set the date as you desire.
The advantage of doing this is that you can balance the server performance with this reporting and with this statistics you can have accurate bandwidth usage and plan the bandwidth usage for the users accordingly.
If you want the usage information to be up-to-date, then you can process the statistics of an individual user for any particular time period also. For this you can go to the Server Configuration and from there go to the Statistics Software Configuration screen in the WHM. It is located under the Process Statistics for User heading. It will give you accurate information about any individuals data usage.