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You can limit access to files on your site by requiring users to type a password to gain access. When users attempt to access a file in a protected directory, the Web server displays a login window. Users with access privileges can enter their user names and passwords to access the directory. Users without access privileges cannot gain access and will see an error page. An example of a directory that should be protected is the /awstats directory – you may not wish everyone to see that access statistics for your website. Read More

Every new account will have some files already installed in it, and these take up about 20MB. The biggest set of files is for the webmail application (SquirrelMail) which takes up about 17MB. If you do not intend to use webmail, and would like to reclaim this disk space, please contact support asking for webmail to be disabled. The other files are for web statistics, scripts etc and should not be deleted.

You will need an FTP program to connect to your hosting space for file transfer. There are many free and paid FTP clients you can choose from and all will work in the same way and require much the same settings as used in this tutorial. Read More

You will need to use an ftp client to upload your website. You can read a simple tutorial on how to use FTP here. Read More