When I need to send a client a PDF, a logo or a folder of photographs, I do not want to bury it in an email thread. I also do not want to upload it to a website’s public media library just to hand it over. Those files have a different job from the images the site publishes.
That is why I have put private file workspaces beside website media in AceHost. Each hosting site has its own space for working files, while the team has a separate workspace. The same screen lets you look through the site’s published media without treating it as a place for general file sharing.
Start private, then share deliberately
Files in a workspace are private to people with access to it. When somebody else needs a copy, you can create a link for one file or a whole folder. The person opening that link gets a simple page where they can see what was shared and download it, without needing an AceHost account. You can turn the link off when the handover is finished.
A folder link also covers its subfolders and files added later. That is useful for an ongoing project, but it is worth choosing the folder carefully. If the job only needs one document, share that file.
Keep the website’s published files in view
The site’s own media sits under the same site workspace, in a separate read-only view. You can browse and download it there. Changes and deletions stay in the website, where their effect on pages and posts is easier to understand. A quick search for a published image should not become an accidental edit to the live site.
Keeping the two views together helps when a project moves from draft assets to published content. You can find what was handed over and what the site is actually serving, without guessing which folder or service holds each file.
A practical part of hosting
For me, this is a useful extension of hosting: a small, familiar file space for the people working on a site, with public sharing when they choose it. It is available in the AceHost beta, and access follows the sites assigned to an account.
See how the media workspace fits into hosting → If you are planning a move of your site’s existing uploads, I have also written about moving media off a web server without losing a file.