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Remote File Server setup

We are constantly linking documents stored to an online store in e-mail notifications instead of sending the files themselves. For a long time, we've just used the file storage on one of our Wordpress sites but I'd prefer to go about it a little more professionally.

I have a hosted site with a static IP, DNS record under our main domain to point to that site and plan to just use http://HOSTED_SITE/File.extension (waiting for DNS to populate).

Should I put up a SSL certificate for the store or am I able to? Any reason why someone would want/need to pull down hosted files from a site secured with a SSL?

Is there any other feedback as things I should consider before moving forward?

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Patrick

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I apologize for being a little disconnected. The need grew from doing a process a few times (I don't want to send out this 5 meg file out over email to 50 people, put it on our wordpress site for them to download). That wordpress site got a lot of exposure and due diligence wasn't done on maintenance on the wordpress site and has been flagged a few times for malware. Trying to start anew and doing the file server right from the get go.

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