File Hosting Using Online Storage By Christopher Herzig

File Hosting is using a server, web or ftp, to make access to files to users at remote sites. Files may be setup to be downloaded by the general public of password protected for use by one or a group of people. People can be given read only or read/write access to the files.

Online Storage Solution as it has been designed by Online Storage Solution can be used as a file hosting service. We provide each online storage customer is a direct url (username.onlinestoragesolution.com) and a public directory that allows you to link to files from a web site, ebay, and email just to name a few.

The allows you to reduce bandwidth and limit the size of attachments in email to makes things run smoother.

Let's take a look at several uses of file hosting online storage that our customers make use of.

Public Media Sharing, including music, video, and pictures. Users simply put the files they want to share in their public folder and link to those files from a web site or an ebay listing. The process is simply and very useful because putting the files in the folder can be done from both the web and your virtual drive mounted on your computer.

Private Media Sharing: In this case you simply drop your files into folders that are password protected in your public directory. When the server they to access those folders they are asked for a username and password. So you may want to share a video of the kids with your mother access the country so you drop into moms folder and send the link over to her via email with the password.

To make it simple you can email the username and password right in the like for example mom:password@billy-smith.onlinestoragesolution.com/mom

This will take here directly to her folder without asking for a password but if someone else try's to get at it they will be asked for the password.

Bandwidth Reduction and High Speed File Downloading. Lets say you run your web site off a service in your office attached to a business DSL line. The web site works great but because of the upload limits on the DSL line the larger graphics and files are slower than what you would like.

Use your online storage account and put those larger files in your public directory and tell your web site how to find them using your url.

This will reduce the load on your DSL line and allow you to keep your server in house with access to internal data without putting it out onto the Internet.

File hosting makes online storage useful in every day like and only online storage solution makes it this easy!

Christopher Herzig is a Senor Systems Administration with Online Storage Solution. He has vast experience in the deployment of Online Storage and Backup services. Your are welcome to link to this content or reprint it as long as you link back to www.onlinestoragesolution.com.

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