Install your own tools if you feel deprived

If it happens that your hosting server (GoDaddy hosting for example) doesn’t provide tools to manage your account effectively, don’t be satisfied with that. You shouldn’t complain neither. Instead, go and install your own on-line tools.

PHP File Manager is one of such tools. It consists of one PHP script that you can upload to your server and have fully featured file manager running on-line. With it you can upload, copy, move, delete, compress, uncompress files on your server. You can set permissions, edit configuration files, check server info, and even execute system commands on your server. Quite impressive! And it’s open source and absolutely free. Make sure that only you can access your tools by installing them in password protected folders or assigning an URL that is hard to guess.

Once you have one running, don’t stop. Analyze your servers features, compile a list of items you miss much and go find a replacement you can install yourself. Tools for managing email accounts, domains, databases, server logs and statistics - everything is possible.

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