A [TIP] for Slow Hosting uploads via FTP

I just wanted to share this little gem that I found and been using for some time now for clients that are actually having slow server uploading and no multi-threaded uploads via FTP.

Personally I have encountered many website hosting providers that do 1by1 upload so uploading an WordPress installation would take ages to upload (I think it has around 15k files)... Such a time waster as it sometimes took 15 - 20m to upload.

This obviously applies to any other installation or extraction of files (wp themes, other scripts) and is not just limited to WP (there are auto-installers anyways on cPanel at least that help you install CMS).

So to fix the issue, you basically upload the whole .zip file which shouldn't take ages in this case as its only 1 file... Then what you need is this:

https://github.com/ndeet/unzipper



It's a simple 1 file PHP script that extracts the .zip files in seconds. Just download it to your desktop, upload via FTP, and visit the unzipper.php on your domain to proceed.

Never thought of this, that's neat !

Thank you for the share

Nice Share!

Sheepp said:

Never thought of this, that's neat !

Thank you for the share

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MKSKS said:

Nice Share!

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Hopefully, it saves you some time so you can focus on other things

Cpanel already support zipping and unzipping operation.

MisterXYZ said:

Cpanel already support zipping and unzipping operation.

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I was clearly talking about FTP uploads only. Obviously cpanel has its own file manager... Some people do not own server with cpanel as its too expensive (VPS or Dedicated).

Thanks for the share. Very interesting.