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# FTP Accounts

Publish your RapidWeaver Elements sites at lightning speed with FTP or SFTP

FTP accounts are used to connect RapidWeaver Elements to your Elements Hosting account, allowing you to publish your website directly from the app without needing any additional software. 

If you prefer, or if you need to give someone else access to your published site files, you can also use FTP accounts with a third-party FTP client (we recommend [Cyberduck](https://cyberduck.io/) or [Transmit](https://panic.com/transmit/)) to upload, update, or manage your website files manually.

Elements Hosting supports both traditional FTP and secure SFTP connections, and these FTP accounts can be created directly from the [Elements Hosting Reactor Panel](https://reactor.elementshosting.io/login).

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