What is Anonymous  FTP?

Many computer  systems throughout the internet offer files through anonymous FTP. This simply means that you can access the machine without having an account on that machine. Remember when you first accessed your website web directory on our web servers? You had to login using your ID and password. With an anonymous FTP account, you do not need to do this. When prompted for an ID, you simply type in the word anonymous. When prompted for a password, you can leave it blank, or type in your email address. Typing in your email address is a courtesy to the FTP host, letting him/her know who is visiting his/her server.

Your Own Anonymous FTP Site

Within PSA you can setup Anonymous FTP capabilities for a given IP-based virtual host. Anonymous FTP is used to allow an open, yet controlled, environment for your visitors to your domain to  download and/or upload files to and from the domain account. Users will be able to log into ftp.<domain name> with the standard anonymous user name and any password. PSA allows the setup and limitation of incoming file space, connected users, and bandwidth usage throttling.

To set up Anonymous FTP:

1. Click the ANONYMOUS FTP button at the Domain Administration Page. The Anonymous FTP Feature Management Page appears.

2. By default  anonymous FTP capabilities will be inactive. To activate anonymous FTP select the ON/OFF button. The status indicator next to Anonymous FTP account status will identify the status as either ON or X (off).

3. Select the checkbox beside Allow uploading to incoming directory to allow visitors access the anonymous ftp site to upload files into the /incoming directory.

4. Select the checkbox beside Limit disk space in the incoming directory to set the disk space quota (ie hard limit) on the /incoming directory. Then select the Up to field and enter the disk space, in KiloBytes, you wish to allow for the /incoming directory. If no specific limit is set, or zero is used in the Up to field, the setting is unlimited.

5. Select the checkbox beside Limit maximum simultaneous connections number to set limits on the number of users who can be simultaneously connected to the anonymous FTP site. Then select the Up to field and enter the number of connections allowed. If no specific limit is set, or zero is used in the Up to field, the setting is unlimited.

6. Select the checkbox beside Limit download bandwidth for this virtual FTP domain to set throttling up for the anonymous FTP site. Then select the Up to field and enter the maximum average bandwidth, in KiloBytes per second, allowed. If no specific limit is set, or zero is used in the Up to field, the setting is unlimited.

7. Once you have completed all changes, select UPDATE to submit all changes and  return to the Domain Administration Page.

8. Selecting UP LEVEL will ignore all changes made and return to the DomainAdministration Page.