D r ea m H ost Fi l e Ma n age r – I s i t U s ef ul E nou gh ? Most hosting services provide a cPanel or custom control panel. DreamHost le manager is one of the common tools in this large inventory. Once you add a domain and hosting, you are ready to install WordPress. DreamHost service provides one such control panel, where you can access your site les using le/folder management. Typically ftp clients are used to access these les. But many don’t know that DreamHost also provides in-house tools to manage les and users. In this DreamHost review we are going to see the details of the File Manager present inside the control panel. DreamHost File Manager - Is it Useful Enough? 6 H ow to Acce ss D r ea m H ost Fi l e Ma n age r ? Once you access the DreamHost panel using login credentials, navigate to the following. There are several ways to do this. 1. Websites > Manage websites. 2. Against any site, click on Manage. 3. Manage your site on the next screen. 4. Click on Manage. ABOUT ME Palla Sridhar is a web master and content marketer from 2008 onwards. In his online career of 14 years, he has written over 2000+ articles on WordPress , IT, Tech, Software and SEO. He is a post-graduate engineer from IIT Kanpur in India. He has used over dozen hosting services and has plentiful knowledge of WordPress as a designer, installer and troubleshooter. He can x routine problems of plugins, hosting faced daily by a normal user. He has played with settings of Genesis, Thesis, Kadence, GeneratePress and many other tools. Ready to help and support the WordPress user community. Read More... FREE WEEKLY EMAIL NEWSLETTER Get updates and noti cations about the latest news in the WordPress.org world. New Themes, Plugins, Hosting services. Latest reviews and solve problems. Only 1 email per week. E-mail Address SUBSCRIBE No data will be shared with third-parties. GENERATEPRESS HOSTING WORDPRESS PLUGINS 1 2 1 3 1 2 3 4 Table of Contents How to Access DreamHost File Manager? How to Manage Files on DreamHost panel? Extract Compressed File to the User Root Account DreamHost Review of Extraction Right-click Options File Management options on DreamHost DreamHost Review – File Management Folder Drop-down options DreamHost Review of File Management All les of your website should be visible. It includes the root directory of the WordPress site. File Management can also be done using this path 1. Websites > FTP Users & Files. 2. All users are listed on the right hand side. 3. Click on Manage against the user on which your WordPress install resides. 4. All les are accessible. DreamHost File Manager - Is it Useful Enough? 7 H ow to Ma n age Fi l e s on D r ea m H ost p a n e l ? Generally some dot les are there in your user account. These are server or host les. You need not tinker with them, apart from a few. Related Post : DreamHost cPanel Review - Full Details of Control Panel Click the root folder of your WordPress site, for eg. pallaegxx.com. You can access all the WordPress site les. E xtr ac t C ompr e ss ed Fi l e to t he U s e r R oot Acc ount If you are looking to transfer WordPress site from one host to another host manually, then you can compress the site folder on the old hosting. Then, download it to your computer and upload to the DreamHost user account root folder. Right-click the zip le and click on Extract. It will uncompressed the le to the folder content. The WordPress site structure will be the same as your previous hosting account. By default, if you have used the same le name as the domain name, your root folder also will be the same as pallaegxx.com. MORE TO SEE The Be st #1 Rea l E st a t e P lu gi n i n 2020 – C ompl e t e Re v ie w H ow to U n i nst a ll Y o a st SEO C ompl e t e ly i n 2022? kk S t a r Ra t i n g s Sh ort C o de – Fea tur e s , P ros a n d C ons , Pe r f orm a n ce Te sts Rea l Te st o f WP R o c k e t w i t h Thi r d - Pa rty Vide o Ad s Be st W or dP r e ss Cache P lu gi n – WP R o c k e t – O ur Re sults H umm i n gbi r d P ro – W or dP r e ss S p eed O pt i m i z a t i on P lu gi n DreamHost File Manager - Is it Useful Enough? 8 All wp-content, wp-includes, etc kind of folders will be unzipped. You can also see the uploads folder containing the images. It is the most convenient way to transfer WordPress site folders to DreamHost. D r ea m H ost Re v ie w o f E xtr ac t i on Unfortunately I experienced a very slow state of extraction using the le management system of the control panel. It took a lot of time. Also, there is no provision for compression or zipping the folder on DreamHost Shared Hosting plan. A better alternative is to use HostArmada’s Speed Reaper plan. Righ t - c l ic k O pt i ons 1. Download 2. Cut 3. Copy 4. Delete 5. CHMOD Fi l e Ma n age m e nt opt i ons on D r ea m H ost Few icons are available at the bottom of the screen. 1. Upload 2. Download 3. Fetch File 4. Create New File/Folder 5. Show Editor . Cut 7. Copy . Paste 9. Delete 10. CHMOD DreamHost File Manager - Is it Useful Enough? 9 D r ea m H ost Re v ie w – Fi l e Ma n age m e nt F ol de r D rop - d own opt i ons On the left hand-side of each folder in the le management panel, there is an inverted arrow. Related Post : Guide to Forward Fully Hosted Email on DreamHost [2022] If you click that further options are available. 1. Open 2. Rename 3. Properties These are extra options. DreamHost File Manager - Is it Useful Enough? 10 For a typical le, you can also edit it, if it’s possible. It is useful for .htaccess and robots.txt type of les. D r ea m H ost Re v ie w o f Fi l e Ma n age m e nt Beginner WordPress users are not familiar with FTP and SFTP clients. SSH access is too technical. In that case, DreamHost File Manager comes to the rescue to copy, past, cut and download les/folders from the server. Review of File Management tools and settings. – Palla Sridhar Ease of Use Speed and Responsive Compression Feature Number of Operations Summary The control panel operations are very slow compared to Host Armada cPanel. Upload is a little quick. But downloading les and folders takes a lot of time. Sometimes, the extraction of compressed les stops in the middle. Then you need to talk to the customer support. Deleting also is a laborious task. The shared hosting plan has very slow cut, copy and paste operations. It is better to use FileZilla for le management of WordPress les. 3 For an in-depth DreamHost review and details about pricing, plans, speed, check my guide. 4.7/5 - (9 votes) Y ou ' ll a lso l i k e : 1. 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