# Map your hosting as a network drive with Web Disk
Source: https://docs.webgee.com/en/hosting/web-disk





**Web Disk** exposes your account over WebDAV, so it appears as a network drive
on your computer and you edit files as if they were local. Applies to shared,
reseller and Premium hosting on cPanel.

Open **Web Disk** in cPanel under **Files**.

<img alt="The Web Disk page, showing the main account and the form to create an additional one" src="__img0" />

## Use the main account [#use-the-main-account]

Your cPanel account already has a Web Disk account covering the whole home
directory. Select **Configure Client Access** beside it, choose your operating
system, and follow the instructions — cPanel generates a configuration script for
Windows and gives manual settings for everything else.

<Callout type="warn">
  The main Web Disk account has access to your **entire home directory**, and its
  password is your cPanel password. Do not configure it on a shared or untrusted
  computer. Create a restricted account instead, as below.
</Callout>

## Create a restricted account [#create-a-restricted-account]

**Create an Additional Web Disk Account** makes a login limited to one directory.
Use this for anyone who should reach only part of the account — a designer who
needs `public_html/wp-content/themes` and nothing else.

The username is suffixed with your domain, so `alex` becomes
`alex@example.com`, and that full address is the login.

## Windows needs digest authentication [#windows-needs-digest-authentication]

If you are on Windows, select **Enable Digest Authentication** before connecting.
Windows will not authenticate to a WebDAV share without it, and the failure looks
like a wrong password rather than a missing setting.

## SFTP is usually better [#sftp-is-usually-better]

Web Disk is convenient for occasional edits, but WebDAV is slow with many small
files and drops connections on unstable networks — which corrupts a save
part-way through.

For anything substantial use SFTP. It is faster, more reliable, and can
authenticate with a key instead of a password:

* [Upload files with FileZilla over SFTP](/en/hosting/using-filezilla-to-upload-files-via-sftp-ssh-or-ftps-ssl-tls)
* [Connect via SSH](/en/development/connect-via-ssh)

## Related [#related]

* [Use File Manager](/en/hosting/how-to-manage-files-in-cpanel)
* [Upload files with FileZilla over SFTP](/en/hosting/using-filezilla-to-upload-files-via-sftp-ssh-or-ftps-ssl-tls)