Some advice please regarding installation chmod directives?

I was reading the installation notes on W3TC and came across this instruction:

Also make sure wp-content/ and wp-content/uploads/ (temporarily) have 777 permissions before proceeding, e.g. in the terminal: # chmod 777 /var/www/vhosts/domain.com/httpdocs/wp-content/ using your web hosting control panel or your FTP / SSH account.

How is this accomplished when the site is hosted on a shared server at, in this case, GoDaddy. I don’t think we can have shell access to chmod that directory.

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