Hi,

it's the first time that I use a paid webhosting account generally I used a free account so I uploaded my files directly to the server so I want to know the reason of the usage of filezilla to upload files? Why don't we upload files directly to the server? and I want to know what does the logon type in filezilla mean I choosed the normal but what does it mean, plus what does the transfer mode mean and finally what does the encryption use plain ftp mean does it mean that my data is not sent encrypted is it sent as visible if so how can I make it encrypted?

thank you.
ok tahnk you for sharing this info but I need someone to answer my questions..
1- free web hosting gives you a more user-friendly interface that uploads your files easily to the designated destination, while you are on paid web hosting, its more specific and detailed so you have to choose your destination
2- transfer mode is the type of the conversion the files go through while being uploaded
3- and yes it uses plain text as authentication and you better use fireftp as rtp suggested before
hi, thank you for your reply but I didn't understand whta you mean by:transfer mode is the type of the conversion the files go through while being uploaded and it uses plain text between the filezilla and the server right? so it's not such a bad thing..
FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol. Like the name suggests, it's a protocol that allows files to be transfered from one computer to the other. Your server runs an FTP server. Your computer has an FTP client (like FileZilla), that connects to the server and transfers files to it.
abd wroteHi,

it's the first time that I use a paid webhosting account generally I used a free account so I uploaded my files directly to the server so I want to know the reason of the usage of filezilla to upload files? Why don't we upload files directly to the server? and I want to know what does the logon type in filezilla mean I choosed the normal but what does it mean, plus what does the transfer mode mean and finally what does the encryption use plain ftp mean does it mean that my data is not sent encrypted is it sent as visible if so how can I make it encrypted?

thank you.
FTP is specialised for transferred files, as samer pointed out.
Some features that you have with FTP, and which are very difficult or impossible to have in the browser:
- File upload resume
- File limits: the browser and POST have all sort of limits which make it difficult to upload big files.

So instead of wasting their time creating something complicated which could not work, they ask you to use FTP.
hi rolf,
thank you for your reply.