ANONYMOUS
FTP
 Anonymous
FTP
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
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
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