I'm developing an asp .net web application for somebody.
This application is going to offer a certain amount of document management capabilities (generating pdf's, upload/download docs etc.). I'm using telerik controls for uploading etc. so that's fine so far, but, assuming I'm using a web host who's file system I have no access to (would that not be most web hosting services?), the client can never find these files on their hard drive can they? Unless I implement some sort of automated file transfer protocol or an e-mail service? How do typical web-based applications deal with this?
I'd typically favour a windows forms approach to this sort of solution usually and manage the file system through code so that all documents of a certain type, for example, can be found in one particular directory but it's explicitly requested that it is web-based for obvious access reasons.
Does the user need to host this themselves if they want this sort of unrestricted access?