- Open FileZilla.
- Access the Site Manager.
- Click your site, then select the Transfer Settings tab.
- Check the box for Limit number of simultaneous connections, and set the Maximum number of connections to 8.
- Click the OK button. Now when you are using FileZilla, it will not allow you to go over your limitation of 8 simultaneous FTP connections.
Congratulations, now you know how to drop idle FTP connections in cPanel, and limit your FTP connections in FileZilla.