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The file manager in the Hosting Panel lets you create, edit, upload, and delete your website files from the browser, without an FTP client. Log in at https://my.hosting.com to reach it.
Not everything that makes up your site lives in these files. Page content, posts, and settings for applications like WordPress are stored in a database instead — What does software like WordPress use databases for? explains the difference, and is worth reading before you edit or delete anything here.

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Managing your website files

You can create, edit, and delete files and directories, and much more. To do this, follow these steps:
  1. Log in to your account as described in Managing your website in the Hosting Panel.
  2. When the control panel appears, in the left sidebar, click Websites:
  3. On the Manage websites page, click the website you want to manage.
  4. A list of tabs appears at the top of the page. Click the Files tab:
  5. The File manager appears:
  6. You can navigate the file system using the folder tree in the left sidebar:
    • Click a folder name to view its contents in the right pane.
    • Click the plus sign (+) icon to view subfolders beneath the current folder.
  7. In the right pane you can do many operations:
    • To sort the listing by name, size, or the date it was last modified, click the column heading:
    • To create a new file or folder, click New, and then click File or Folder.
    • To upload a file or folder to your account, click Upload, and then click File or Folder.
    • To modify an existing file or folder, right-click it, and then select an option:
      • To edit a file, click Edit.
      • To download a file to your local computer, click Download.
      • To view path, file size, permissions, and other information for a file or folder, click Get info.
      • To copy a file or folder, click Copy.
      • To rename a file or folder, click Rename.
      • To compress a file or folder, click Compress.
      • To decompress a compressed file or folder, click Uncompress.
      • To change the permissions for a file or folder, click Permissions (CHMOD).
      • To delete a file or folder, click Delete.
    • To process multiple files at once, select the Select all check box, and then select one of the options that appears at the bottom of the page:
      🚧 Important Be careful when working with multiple files at once, especially if you are doing deletion operations.