Can I share a file with an individual from my InMotion account? If so, how ?
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There are a few ways to go about this, but please keep in mind that, per our terms of service, file storage not directly associated with your website is prohibited. So, posting a PDF of a menu on a restaurant's website for sharing and downloading would be fine, posting a highlight reel on your portfolio website would be fine, but storing your ebook collection on the server in a non-site directory would be prohibited.
Please feel free to check with our 24/7 Technical Support team directly if you had any questions regarding the files themselves.
With that out of the way, the best way to do this will depend on how freely you want to share this file. If you just want to directly link to it, you can place the file in any publicly accessible site directory and link to it like any other webpage! You see this a lot with PDFs. So if I put a restaurant menu on the InMotion Hosting site in the site directory, I could link others to it with inmotionhosting.com/menu.pdf .
The downside to this is that it is publicly accessible by anyone. Even if you only tell one person about the link you still have to worry about bots, webcrawlers, and other automated systems discovering it. Anyone who was using these tools to scan your website will find these files. This is fine if it is something you want to make publicly available.
Other methods would be variations on this: encrypting a directory and having someone connect via FTP, password protecting a directory and providing someone a password, or other variations of the above. There may be some WordPress plugins that solve your specific issue as well.
If this is not a one-off issue, but something you may need to set up to work repeatedly and in different circumstances, consider reaching out to our Managed Hosting team for a quote on helping you set this up!
Thanks for getting in touch with us!
There are a few ways to go about this, but please keep in mind that, per our terms of service, file storage not directly associated with your website is prohibited. So, posting a PDF of a menu on a restaurant's website for sharing and downloading would be fine, posting a highlight reel on your portfolio website would be fine, but storing your ebook collection on the server in a non-site directory would be prohibited.
Please feel free to check with our 24/7 Technical Support team directly if you had any questions regarding the files themselves.
With that out of the way, the best way to do this will depend on how freely you want to share this file. If you just want to directly link to it, you can place the file in any publicly accessible site directory and link to it like any other webpage! You see this a lot with PDFs. So if I put a restaurant menu on the InMotion Hosting site in the site directory, I could link others to it with inmotionhosting.com/menu.pdf .
The downside to this is that it is publicly accessible by anyone. Even if you only tell one person about the link you still have to worry about bots, webcrawlers, and other automated systems discovering it. Anyone who was using these tools to scan your website will find these files. This is fine if it is something you want to make publicly available.
Other methods would be variations on this: encrypting a directory and having someone connect via FTP, password protecting a directory and providing someone a password, or other variations of the above. There may be some WordPress plugins that solve your specific issue as well.
If this is not a one-off issue, but something you may need to set up to work repeatedly and in different circumstances, consider reaching out to our Managed Hosting team for a quote on helping you set this up!