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.