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UploadOnly/DownloadOnly FTP Server?

I need access to a FTP server which can have two separate accounts: one which allows only download, and one which allows only upload, with different passwords of course.
I checked with my current web hosting company, and they told me that they don’t have such an option. I was a little surprised, as the company is pretty high-profile so I supposed it should be simple, just checking an option in the user web control panel and convert a usual FTP u rad or write only… But on the other hand, I don’t have any experience with such a feature…
1)      Is this possible to be achieved?
2)      Is this something very unusual as an offered feature of web hosters?
3)      What should I actually look and ask for? I could contact other hosters, but I’m completely without experience with such kind of service, so that I don’t even know does such a feature have a name and what it is, so I could look for that?
4)      Do you maybe know a web hoster offering such a feature?
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Usually the upload accounts are thr trusted users. SO this accounts usually has read write rights and the download one only read rights. I would not use a ftp server anymore.

If you want to transfer any file use a service like https://www.wetransfer.com/

otherwise if you need ftp server install your own and there you can adjust like you need.
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I cannot use any third party service. I has to be FTP: I'm developing a program, which has to communicate with a FTP server, in two separate modes as I said...
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Do you need to provide the server, or are you just testing a program that will need to access a server that somebody else provides?

As TropicalBound stated, typically a upload only user would be a userid that has write permissions to a specific directory.  Again, this means they can't do a ls/dir to see if the file is there after the upload.

A download only userid would just have read access to a specific directory.
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I'm only developing a program that will have to communicate with the server, and should be able to separately upload/download data. I don't need to provide server, it should be provided by a commercial web hosting company. Of course, I should have the usual developer access to the account...
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@ all
So does it it mean that every standard FTP  account should by default have such options? And it is actually a property of a specific directory of the account, WriteOnly/RadOnly rights? And in principle that is usually done by appropriate control panel of the web hosting company, or on some other way?
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