Dilwyn, with all the stuff that you are providing on your www site maybe you should also consider an FTP repository. In that way all the files available are readily accessible for download.
FTP came before HTTP and was designed for file access. Although the latter seems now to be more popular as users are more used to accessing from a web site.
I've never set up an FTP site and would need help and advice to get it going, but it's something I'd consider. I've been very lucky with the Freeola UK6 site, it's reliable, has masses of free space and the only real restriction they place on you is that everything must be "visible", i.e. pages anyone can read or files anyone can download, you mustn't use it as a private file store. I guess they make their money from users dialling up.
Can you point me a source of information on getting and setting up an FTP site?
At present I haven't set up one either. Probably when Phoebus gets back on the list he will have the know how and information.
I have two net accounts, one with Demon and one with AOL.
The Demon account has everything, I just haven't investigated it for FTP.
The AOL account gives an easy to use access to storing files via FTP as a part of the package.
Perhaps Rich will know more about this too, as he may have a fuller AOL account than mine.
In addition I have found it find it to be a handy way to get large files from one machine to another by using it as a store. Upload from one computer and download on the other.
Of course the 'free' space available on AOL is limited. Yet a fuller service would be the equivalent of having a large virtual drive.
A cost for dial-up accounts, yet easy for broadband and the like.
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