In my experience most end users ARE Tools so to say no Tools is somewhat of an oxymoron!
;-)
Dave
-----Original Message----- From: ProFox [mailto:profox-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Ted Roche Sent: 26 May 2017 13:16 To: profox@leafe.com Subject: Re: Recommendations for temporary file storage
OK, never mind. Since web browsers let you browse ftp sites, I made the foolish ASSuMption that ftps (NOT SFTP!) would work the same way, since it's ftp-over-ssl and browsers support ftp and browsers support ssl, why not both? But I'm wrong; it appears you need a custom tool like filezilla or winscp to manage FTPS, and if you're doing that, then you ought to just set up an actually secure file transfer setup with SFTP. And one of your requirements was "no end-user tools."
So, I withdraw the suggestion.
It appears that something like Dropbox, GoogleDrive or OneDrive is your best choice. Or the SendAnywhere thing.
On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 4:17 PM, Ted Roche tedroche@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 2:21 PM, Paul Hill paulroberthill@gmail.com wrote:
In fact I was put off by Dave's suggestion because it is 'free'.
Totally agree. My first thought was, if it is free to the users, where is it they make their money? Bandwidth is not free.
A reasonable amount. £120 a month (assuming a dozen users) seems a bit high. We could host a server in our office (100Mb/s bandwidth up and down) but I don't want to chance it, hence a 3rd party solution would be ideal.
My favorite hosting company, Linode, offers: London, UK, $10/mo (£7.72), 30 Gb storage, 2 TB monthly transfer, you might need a bit more, plus some fees for daily log review, maintenance, upkeep, markup, overhead, plus the one-time costs of configuring the app (inclined to think it could be done with VSFTP over SSL/TLS) plus configure the SSL cert, as I don't think a free cert would work, though a self-signed might...
It shouldn't cost an arm-and-a-leg, but the biggest challenge will be getting a reliable host and a reliable hostmaster willing to charge an hour a month. I'd suggest you troll around for a local Linux hostmaster, or someone who has the ability to work in UK and knows how to spell VAT (*shudder*).
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