2.6. Anonymous FTP

IMPORTANT: Your anonymous ftp account is for light use only. Your web hosting account is not designed for heavy anonymous ftp usage for the purposes of distribution programs and/or multimedia files.  Please contact us for special pricing for such usage.

Your anonymous ftp site is completely different from your web site.

When people ftp to your domain anonymously, they will see the following directories:

bin/ dev/ etc/ incoming/ lib/ pub/

"pub" is where you should put all your anonymously accessible files.
"incoming" is for the anonymous users to upload files.

For security the following applies

• Only the incoming directory can be written to anonymously
• Subdirectories are not creatable
• The incoming directory is not readable by people dropping files there

You are responsible for any "pirated" software uploaded by the anonymous users. The anonymous ftp sites will be periodically monitored for any abuses.

You may ignore the other directories.

Accessing the Anonymous FTP site via the Web

To access the anonymous FTP site via the web, use the following address:
ftp://[yourdomain].com/pub/

Your HTML to download a file called mirc511s.exe from a webpage would look like this:
<A HREF="ftp://[yourdomain].com/pub/mirc511s.exe">Download Mirc Now</A>

You should tell your visitors that they may need to right-click on the link if they are PC users, or if they use a Macintosh, they need to hold down the mouse button on the link, then select the appropriate option from the Pop-up menu.

Please note its possible during peak hours to receive a "to many anonymous users error", We must restrict the number of simultaneous anonymous users to keep the webserver and normal FTP performance within normal limits. If you receive this error often you may want to put you downloadable files in your main web directory and link to them with a http call

Example:
http://[yourdomain].com/files.zip

This assumes the zip files are in the main web directory.