Frequently Ask Questions

FTP (File Transfer Protocol) Questions

1. What's a FTP account?
2. What's a FTP server?
3. What's a FTP client?
4. What's a virtual ftp account ?

What's a FTP account?

FTP account you get allows you to upload files to your hosting account. You can upload HTML pages, CGI scripts, Java applets and anything else you need to.

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What's a FTP server?

A program running on our server to which a FTP client connects to upload files.

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What's a FTP client?

A program that allows you to upload files to FTP server. The two most popular ones are: CuteFTP and WS_FTP.

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What's a virtual ftp account ?

AcceleratedWeb allows you to create additional ftp accounts from your control panel, these are called virtual ftp accounts.

Virtual ftp account has following characteristics :
It shares disk space with your main one.
You choose user/password/home directory for a virtual account and once user logs in it is bound to its home directory thus preventing user to access other directories within your main account directory structure

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