Use Cases

Edge platforms in front of Public Hosting open up patterns that aren't possible with the default hosted-by-files.com URLs alone. The scenarios below show how customers across different industries use URL rewriting at the edge to serve Publicly Hosted Folders under their own domains.

Re-Using a Portal With Multiple Brands

If you need to serve many of the same assets under multiple brands, you can use your chosen edge platform with any of your domains, all of which will interact with the same <subdomain>.hosted-by-files.com hosted folder on your Files.com site.

Follow the steps from your chosen hosting platform to rewrite the URLs in your requests and responses and assign it to all of your domains. Now you have one place to control the content of your assets, which are published across all of your domains for your customers.

Hiding Structure or Versioning

A common use for public hosting is to provide an easy method for distributing software updates and patches. Often, these employ some form of semantic versioning, with separate sub-folders for each individual release version.

By using an edge compute provider to rewrite requests, you can intercept requests to folders that represent different versions, such as pointing requests for something like https://downloads.example.com/latest/ to https://example.hosted-by-files.com/downloads/v2.0.3.61 . Adding other facade folders is a matter of pushing updated code to your edge computer, such as when version 2.0.3.62 has passed internal QA and now becomes the latest stable version you wish to publish.

Healthcare - Simplified Access to Patient Resources

Healthcare and telemedicine requires your patients to trust that their online interactions with you are safe, and serving your Public Hosting folders under your own domain supports that trust.

You can also use edge platforms to provide easy-to-remember URLs for accessing personal documents like patient education materials, intake forms, or appointment prep guides. Instead of publishing https://exampleclinic.hosted-by-files.com/patient-resources/forms/new-visit.pdf you could instead direct your patients to a URL such as https://my.exampleclinic.com/forms/new-visit.pdf

Media & Entertainment - Custom Access to Promotional Assets

By rewriting the requests from your custom domain, you can route branded campaign links to specific media kits or assets without exposing backend file systems.

Instead of a URL such as https://examplemedia.hosted-by-files.com/assets/2025/hollywood-blockbuster/images/poster-hires.jpg , you could publish https://media.example.com/promo-blockbuster/poster.jpg

This promotes a clean, sharable URL in press releases and makes it easy to update your assets in the future without breaking URLs.

Manufacturing & Distribution - Region-Based Technical Docs

Use edge providers to serve region-specific manuals or datasheets based on country codes or subdomains.

Rather than forcing your users to wade through a hierarchy of localized assets, eventually arriving at something like: https://globalexample.hosted-by-files.com/products/eu/gx3000/manual.pdf you could respond with https://eu.docs.globalexample.com/gx3000/manual.pdf

This provides convenient access to localized documentation while centralizing backend storage.