To take advantage of the FTP which is lying behind the fast and easy transfer of files over the internet, and as the transfer over the internet is growing like a fire there exist a need to have some important things at hand, A FTP Client and an active FTP account.
Through this FTP Client tool the users will connect to the server, this connection is a real time connection. When the user tries to connect to the server through the Client tool the FTP account checks if the user which is trying to connect is having the authorization for that. If the FTP account allows to connect then the user can download or Upload the data from/to the server. This administration of the FTP accounts is executed through Specific FTP manager software.
The FTP area is responsible to deal with the tools that relates to set up and manage the FTP accounts, it manages the FTP sessions as well. FTP is a File transfer Protocol method by which you can transfer the files between computers, usually used over the internet. There is a large amount of information stored on the FTP servers, which can be accessed only through FTP.
You can use any software package for FTP. Many browser include some of its features as built in. for eg Internet Explorer. Many special FTP applications are available such as CuteFTP, WS_FTP).
Cpanel allows you to set up FTP accounts so that many users can access a restricted part of the system. Cpanel comes with almost all good hosting packages. If the user is not authenticated or doesn’t have a right to access the full functionality on FTP server, he can use the anonymous FTP account to use the restricted part of the system. This Anonymous can be set up through Cpanel.