How do I download directly to my server?

[indisain]

hi,

you can used SSH.
if you don't have SSH access than ask your server administrator to activated the SSH.
this ssh is unabled by default on most server.

let say you already have SSH account please login via PUTTY.
after login change directory to your home_dir and type command like this:

wget "server_destination_where_want_to_download_the_file/file_name"

good luck

[protheory]

Thanks for your help everybody, much appreciated

I didn't want to post back until I'd found a solution acceptable to me which in my case doesn't involve SSH as it's not enabled on my server and costs me money to enable. It's taken me a good 3 weeks of constant searching but I think (think) I might have finally found a solution.

I've had many false positives lately, I've found ways to do what I want but there's always an issue it seems. Some sites like MegaUpload and RapidShare offer a 'Remote Upload' service which essentially downloads online files and offers a temporary place from which to transfer them to another server or the local computer.

Some of these types of services don't seem to work and others do work but limit the file size to 100mb or so, 300mb is the largest free remote upload service I've managed to find so far. Also, these sites don't usually offer FTP services which is my chosen method of transfer. I've decided that I want to remote upload a file to somewhere that a) accepts remote uploads up to 4gb b) is free and c) offers FTP access so that I can use the FTP to FTP function in FlashFTP, a very useful and free program that I recently discovered.

With FlashFTP I can change the upload view so that instead of having my local file tree in the left hand pane of the FTP program I can have another FTP location containing my remotely uploaded file there and in the right hand pane another remote destination folder enabling me to drag n drop files from server to server. This depends of course on my finding a free host that allows remote uploads of at least 4gb, and FTP access.

Last night I found a new term for remote upload/downloading directly into the cloud...it's known as sideloading. My original problem was that I had no idea what this process was called and thanks to my progress searching for 'remote upload' I was finally able to narrow it down to 'sideloading.'

It turns out that G.HO.ST offer 15gb of free storage, which I have set up already, and free FTP plus side-loading as they spell it. I haven't had chance to test their side-loading option yet but if it works as advertised I can send any normal download on the web to my G.HO.ST storage, use FlashFTP to drag n drop said file(s) to any other FTP location I choose because G.HO.ST offers FTP for free!