The 3rd St Webhosting File Manager
Get rid of FTP clients using our File Manager

Using the 3rd St Webhosting Online Control Panel, you’ll have access to our feature–rich File Manager. It will help you to quickly handle your websites without the need to turn to an FTP software. You can upload files over a protected connection by pulling them into the browser. Additionally, you can instantly archive and unarchive files and directories, create password–protected areas, change data file permissions and so much more. Go through the functions built into our File Manager.
Drag ’n’ drop file uploads
The most simple method to upload data files
Posting files with an FTP tool is an out–of–date and really unsafe way of relocating data files from your laptop or computer to a web server. By reason of this, we have included drag–and–drop file publish support in the File Manager. Simply pull the data files that you want to publish from your computer into your browser and they will begin to upload in your web hosting account through a risk–free SSL connection.
You don’t have to set up any extra computer software, web browser plug–ins or apps. The drag & drop feature performs equally well on Windows, Linux and Mac.
Right–click context menus
Virtually all file administration possibilities in front of you
We have aimed to make File Manager as user–friendly as it could possibly be, so you are able to generate alterations for your files. Besides the typical control bar at the top of the web page, we have now additionally introduced right–click context menus with all the current common file managing options. Simply click on a file or directory and choose the action that you like from the list that will pop–up.
You’re able to rename, copy, move, download, edit, preview, archive, unarchive and delete any file or folder you decide on with simply a click of the mouse. Should you click on a directory, it’s also possible to generate a completely new directory or file within it.
The right–click choices are also available when you pick many different files or folders at the same time.
Archive/Unarchive files
Archive or extract archive files within seconds
Unlike a large number of file management user interfaces as well as FTP (File Transfer Protocol) clients, the 3rd St Webhosting Online Control Panel features a solution to archive/unarchive files quicker. It is really straightforward. To have a folder reduced into a compact size, all you need to do is select it and then click the Compress button. To open up the contents of an archived directory inside your website hosting account, select it and then click the Extract button. The File Manager uses several different file extensions, which include .ZIP, .RAR and .TAR.GZ.
Online file editors
The best way to revise your files
Our File Manager makes it possible for you to alter your files directly on the web server without the need to download, modify and subsequently re–upload them. It’s possible to modify your files straight away online, applying our internal editors. We provide a code editor having syntax emphasizing for your .JS or .PHP files, a WYSIWYG editor for HTML files, and then a regular text editor for more skilled customers.
You have access to each file editor with the right–click context menus. All adjusts made to the files will appear right away online – you can directly preview them in your browser.
A logical folder structure
Your files structured inside a convenient way
If you are in charge of several sites at the same time, it’s important to have everything arranged. With many other File Managers, updating a number of websites in the exact same hosting account can be extremely tricky. Using our File Manager, you will see that it is actually quite easy. Every single site does have its own folder, that you’ll instantly identify, and all of the files pertaining to the specified site are found there.
And to make things even easier, you will find there’s a drop–down menu where it’s easy to pick on exactly which host you want to work in the File Manager. Our clever system will lead you there within seconds.
A user–friendly interface
A File Manager intended for real people
Managing all of your files is instinctive and very easy employing the 3rd St Webhosting Online Control Panel. You will enjoy a file administration setting which is not far from your desktop computer’s file explorer. It is possible to drag & drop files and deal with them with a right click of the mouse. Thanks to the in–built review option, you can see pics exactly like they will be on the Internet, and through the built–in file editors you can make transformations to your files right away.
If you’d like guidance maintaining your files, you can actually take a look at the large set of articles and how–to instructional videos, that you can access with a click of the mouse.
Work with multiple files
Change a variety of files all at once
It is simple to work with a lot of files at the same time when using the multi–selection capability of the 3rd St Webhosting File Manager. All you should do is simply hold down the Control key and click on the files or folders that you’d like to select. Should you want to choose a pair of files/folders in a row at once, click the first file/folder, hold down the Shift key after which choose the final file or folder within the group.
If you have selected the desired files/folders, you may either drag them to an alternative location, or use a variety of activities to them using the right–click context menu or the buttons near the top of the file table.
Quick & simple password protection options
The simplest way to guard your details
There is a single common way to secure a directory with a password – by generating an .htaccess file. If, however, you aren’t technologically skilled enough, you’ll have difficulty executing it on your own. To generate things easy, we’ve added an easy–to–use password protection user interface to the File Manager obtainable inside the Online Control Panel.
To employ this option, just right–click on a folder and choose Password Protection. After that set the login name plus the security password that you would like to employ and press the button. That’s it. The particular folder will be hidden by the public eye and will also be accessible just to approved account owners.