{"id":796,"date":"2013-04-12T20:09:30","date_gmt":"2013-04-12T20:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.milesweb.co.uk\/hosting-faqs\/?p=796"},"modified":"2024-08-06T11:10:42","modified_gmt":"2024-08-06T10:10:42","slug":"ftp-hosting-faqs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.milesweb.co.uk\/hosting-faqs\/ftp-hosting-faqs\/","title":{"rendered":"FTP Hosting FAQs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What is FTP?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol. FTP is used to transfer (upload\/download) files over the internet. FTP works like HTTP and SMTP. HTTP is responsible for transferring web pages from the server to the users browser and SMTP is used for sending emails over the internet. Similarly FTP uses TCP\/IP protocol and is most commonly used for uploading and downloading files over the internet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Do you provide FTP hosting?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>We provide premium <a title=\"FTP Hosting\" href=\"https:\/\/www.milesweb.co.uk\/hosting\/cpanel-hosting\"><strong>cPanel hosting service<\/strong><\/a>. FTP feature is supported with all our <strong><a title=\"Website Hosting Plans\" href=\"https:\/\/www.milesweb.co.uk\/\">website hosting plans<\/a><\/strong> and you may create multiple FTP accounts through control panel. FTP is mostly used to upload\/download web pages on the hosting server. When we setup your hosting account your primary FTP account is automatically created and the login information is sent with the web hosting account details. You can easily manage the FTP accounts through the control panel, you can create or delete FTP account, modify password, point every account to a different folder path. 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