[ale] Web based file storage

[Ron Frazier (ALE)]

One option is the Jungledisk client ( jungledisk.com ) linked to Amazon S3 storage or possibly Rackspace storage.  Rackspace now owns Jungledisk, but i've always used S3 for my online backups.  Originally, that was the only option.  Map a local drive letter or directory to the remote server.  You can drag and drop files to and from the remote system.  This is done through the client software, but you can do web access.  I've never tried that.  You have to account for the time delay to transmit big files to the cloud due to bandwidth limits.

I believe the current costs are a few dollars per month for maintenance, $ 0 to upload (I think), $ 0.15-0.18 / GB / Mo for storage, and $ 0.15-0.18 / GB to download data back down.

I think individual files are limited to 5 GB.  Aggregate space is whatever you want to pay for.  But, let's say you only wanted to store 10 GB, your cost would be under $ 10 / mo.  If you want 1000 GB, you'd be closer to $ 200 / mo.

Data is saved in multiple redundant geographically dispersed locations.

This is definitely a remote server, limited by wan bandwidth.  If you want a local server, this would not apply.

Sincerely,

Ron



Alex Carver <agcarver+ale at acarver.net> wrote:

>Do any of you have a recommendation for a web based file storage
>system? 
>  I want to have something that has basic authentication (i.e. can you 
>see the files or not, doesn't have to get more granular), handles very 
>large files (upwards of 20MB or more at a time), and can provide a tree
>
>navigation.  Revision control is not necessary so SVN/Github isn't
>quite 
>what I'm looking for.  Essentially I'm trying to make a NAS with a web 
>front end.  The users won't be able to mount the server directly so it 
>has to be entirely web access for navigation and file manipulation.
>
>I was testing the dotproject file storage system and it's not exactly 
>easy to use.  The server is going to run dotproject for doing the task 
>management but I need something better for file management.
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