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Dayton Brown
Asked: 2010-03-09 06:36:14 +0800 CST

Online File Sharing that acts just like LAN shared drives, etc

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Have a small business client that wants to move their current file share to the web. Specs are as follows,

20 to 30 GB of space, file sizes are normal (nothing more than 50 to 100 mb)

3 users

ideal solution would be exact same functionality as windows explorer.

CHEAP!!! But not super cheap. I would like to keep it around $20 per user per month.

I've explored a bunch of solutions, but they are all a bit on the complicated side.

Thanks in advance for the recommendations.

EDIT

SharePoint is a good solution, but it's a bit too complicated and a bit on the expensive side. Mostly because they don't want to spend any time cleaning up their files to get down to 5 or less GB of total storage.

EDIT 2 They have a 16/2 MB cable modem from Comcast. It screams up and down.

file-sharing online-storage

3 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    There are many options here...I like Dropbox.

    http://www.dropbox.com

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  2. Forget it. Can not be done - they are a LOT better off to get a cheap NAS solution, like from QNAP or THECUS.

    Unless they ahve a SDSL line, the idea of uploading a 100mbyte file.... makes me cringe. They probably have no clue what they get into. Unless they need to be on the web.... they better count in to get seaparate FAST ASDL / Cable modem internet connections for every user.

    I have a distributed cluster (office, nomal end user cable modem, hosting cluster) and for admin purposes I sometimes do file moves. The rest of the people REALLY realizes it - and I already use a replication mechanism with bandwidth limitation.

    Get them sharepoint, trial. Just put it up. You can use Windows Explorer there (map a drive - using the http syntax). Show them how fast it is to upload a file there, and how the net behaves for the rest (and really mind you if 2-3 people upload the same time). The idea is probably dead faster than you can say "money".

    As I said - they are a lot better with a decent small NAS box. Plus, it is not a dead end once they get more people - web is, unless you get everyone their own ADSL, and even that does not scale ;)

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  3. have you looked into Webdisk?

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