Thanks for your reply matija! Here's more background on the situation.. I have a little uploader script that I wrote to upload files to my server. It works fine until I try larger files and I'm assuming the script is timing out after 5 or so minutes. My host told me that the reason it's "crashing" on larger uploads is because I'm uploading to a "temp" directory and the servers see this as a dead link after a period of time. They said that if I were uploading to another designated directory, then this wouldn't happen. Any thoughts?