If you do not already have SSH/Shell access, click here for further information.
(For Shared only) You will need to enable SSH/Shell access to your account.
Download an FTP program that supports Secure FTP.
There are a couple of things that you will need to do to use this option on our servers. Our servers do support Secure FTP or SFTP.
Changing an existing connection in FileZilla.
Setting up a new SFTP connection in FileZilla Site Manager.
On VPS and Dedicated servers, any cPanel account username or the root user can connect through SFTP. On shared, SFTP is available for use only by the account username. Note: Additional FTP users created through the control panel cannot connect using SFTP.