Anonymous FTP Access

You can allow anonymous FTP access to visitors wishing to download or upload files to your web site as if you were running your own FTP server. You can enable (and disable) ANON FTP access within your Web Control Panel.


Anonymous FTP warnings:

Security
Anonymous FTP will grant any and all users the ability to access your "upload" directory, or any directory on your domain that has been set for "public" read/write permissions. Anonymous users will have access to upload or download files to and from your domain. You must set the appropriate permissions for your directories to restrict anonymous FTP access. This is needed to ensure that anonymous users will not be able to access any existing files or directories. You can inhibit access to specific files and directories on our UNIX servers using the File Manager by disabling public read and/or write access to the files or folders you don't want people to see.

Responsibility
As the account owner, you are responsible for any and all files that are stored on your domain. This would include files that were uploaded by you as well as by anonymous FTP users. With the use of anonymous FTP, your site is susceptible of becoming a "warez" site. Typically, these are sites that are used by "hackers" to trade (upload/download) illegally pirated copies of software programs with one another. As the account owner, the complete content of your account is your responsibility. If your site becomes a trading post for "warez" programs, you may face legal action that can be taken against you by the programmers/software companies of the copyrighted software.

Data Transfer
Any and all FTP download transfers, anonymous FTP included, will be used in the calculation of the total data transfer for your account. If this total data transfer amount exceeds the limit that is set for your plan, you will be responsible for any and all overage charges that occur. Once anonymous FTP has been enabled, it will be your responsibility to monitor the anonymous FTP activity for your account.

Disk Space
If you are going to allow people to upload files to your site, make sure you keep track of your disk space usage via your Control Panel. Do not allow your disk space usage to get too close to your maximum disk space allocation or you may experience problems accessing your site via FrontPage and/or be unable to upload or modify files. You may purchase additional disk space if necessary.

Once you enable ANON FTP, files can be accessed anonymously via FTP client or by using the following URL format:

ftp://ftp.yourdomain.com/<FILENAME>

Anonymous visitors wishing to access your site via FTP client (e.g. ws_ftp) must use the following information:

FTP hostname: yourdomain.com
userid: anonymous
password: guest