This client, initially a pure FTP client, works nicely with Gandi Simple Hosting because it also supports sFTP (Simple Hosting does not accept FTP connections for security reasons).

FileZilla has a site manager (CTRL+S) that allows you to save the connection information for all of your sites, whether they use FTP or sFTP.

Click on “File” on the top menu bar, and choose “Site Manager”. This will bring up the little window where you can add this information. Be sure to first click on the “New site” button, then choose sFTP as the protocol and “Normal” as the Logon type (note: obviously you will replace 123456 in the example by your real user number that you got in your email):

When you click “Connect” to proceed to the next step you might see the following alert:

Click on “Always trust this host, add this key to the cache”, and click OK to continue. You will then be connected to your server, and will see a window that displays the contents of your instance (the contents may vary depending on the type of instance and its version):

The pathinfo.txt file gives you some information on the contents and purpose of the directories (folders) in your instance.

Double click on the “vhosts” folder icon to go to where your virtualhosts are located. Once here, you will see a bunch of folders that correspond to the name of a website (virtualhost) that you specified to be hosted by your Simple Hosting instance.

In the above examples, my virtualhost is called test.sundaysailor.com because I want to have a website at an address like http://test.sundaysailor.com.

If you have more than one virtualhost (website) folder, then click on the one that you want to upload files to.

You will then have the location where you will upload your website!