Directory Access and MP3 Suitability

I've heard good things about HostGator and I have a couple of questions before signing up.

1. Will I have access to place files in a directory above the public/html directory? Specifically, I'd like to put some files such as my PHP-MySQL connection scripts out of public view.

2. I'm a musician and would be selling/serving 40-50 MP3 files with some streaming samples. Is this an acceptable use for a HG shared hosting account?

Thanks for your help!

[Sam]

Originally Posted by Musing

1. Will I have access to place files in a directory above the public/html directory? Specifically, I'd like to put some files such as my PHP-MySQL connection scripts out of public view.

yes you have access to a non web viewable folder

2. I'm a musician and would be selling/serving 40-50 MP3 files with some streaming samples. Is this an acceptable use for a HG shared hosting account?

Should be allright but it would depend on how many files were getting streamed

[esl]

Originally Posted by Musing

2. I'm a musician and would be selling/serving 40-50 MP3 files with some streaming samples. Is this an acceptable use for a HG shared hosting account?

As Sam said, that should be no problem. Just be sure to not go above your sever resource limit, as described here:

http://www.hostgator.com/tos.shtml

Thanks for the quick responses, and especially the link to the TOS. I'll check it out thoroughly.