{"id":10342,"date":"2026-05-07T09:31:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T09:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/?p=10342"},"modified":"2026-05-07T09:31:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T09:31:16","slug":"hostinger-website-builder-file-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/hostinger-website-builder-file-management\/","title":{"rendered":"Hostinger Website Builder: How file management works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Hostinger Website Builder is a visual, easy-to-use, non-file-based platform. This means you do not manage the underlying codebase directly, and traditional file management methods such as FTP, SSH, or the File Manager are not supported for editing site files.<\/p><h2 id=\"h-hosting-storage-and-limits\">Hosting storage and limits<\/h2><p>The Hostinger Website Builder has a separate storage system; therefore, it affects your plan resources differently than a file-based site like custom PHP\/HTML or WordPress.<\/p><ul>\n<li><strong>Disk quota<\/strong>: Website Builder sites do not consume any of the hosting plan&rsquo;s disk space allocation<\/li>\n<li><strong> Inodes<\/strong>: Builder sites do not count toward your inode limit.<\/li>\n<li><strong>File storage<\/strong>: The standard File Manager in hPanel is reserved for custom PHP or HTML websites and does not interact with your Website Builder content. Instead, all supported files are managed through the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/7171600-hostinger-website-builder-media-library\/\">Media Library<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul><h2 id=\"h-alternatives-for-custom-file-management\">Alternatives for custom file management<\/h2><p>If your project requires more flexibility or large-scale file handling not supported by the Media Library, you can host files on separately using the following methods:<\/p><ul>\n<li><strong>External providers<\/strong>: Upload files to services like Google Drive or Dropbox and adjust the sharing permissions. Then, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/6435924-hostinger-website-builder-how-to-upload-files\">link<\/a> to those files within the Website Builder.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Hostinger hosting plan storage<\/strong>: You can host files on a separate website on your Hostinger hosting plan.\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/1583214-how-to-add-a-website-in-hostinger\/\">Add<\/a> a new empty custom PHP\/HTML website to your hosting plan.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/10085905-how-to-connect-a-preferred-domain-name-instead-of-a-temporary-one-at-hostinger\/\">Connect<\/a>&nbsp;the new website to a custom domain or subdomain.<\/li>\n<li>Upload your files to this new site using the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/4548688-basic-actions-in-the-file-manager-in-hostinger\/\">File Manager<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>In the Hostinger Website Builder, link a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/6435924-hostinger-website-builder-how-to-upload-files\">button, text or image element<\/a> to the file&rsquo;s URL.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul><p>This method allows you to expand your website&rsquo;s file capabilities while maintaining your design within the Hostinger Website Builder interface.<\/p><p><strong>NOTE<\/strong><\/p><ul>\n<li>For security reasons, linking certain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/6435924-hostinger-website-builder-how-to-upload-files\/#h_c9dbc9328c\">file types<\/a> is not supported regardless of their source.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to manage files in Hostinger Website Builder<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"include_on_kodee":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[277],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-website-builder"],"hreflangs":[],"include_on_kodee":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10354,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10342\/revisions\/10354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}