Running that traditional dedicated file transfer server locally or on a virtual machine somewhere? Sick of having to reboot it, or SSH in to add a user and try work through the firewall permissions? How’s that performance going for your customers in a different region?
Moving your SFTP / FTP server to the cloud can be daunting and knowing where to start can provide the first hurdle of them all! …
Cloud Storage has become the norm, where you are storing either your personal files and photos or as a business storing collaborative collateral and other media. When looking into cloud storage plans, you are well informed on how much potential data you can store, whether it be from 15GB or unlimited storage. What a lot of these storage providers don’t express, is their upload limitations, ranging from rate limiting to daily upload limits. Below we will cover the business plans for a few of the cloud storage providers and their limitations, you can then make a properly informed decision.
Dropbox…
Cloud Migrations can be complex, take time and require a lot of manual intervention to ensure that files get to where they are supposed to go. This doesn’t matter if it is an AWS S3 to Azure Blob migration, or Google Drive to OneDrive, Dropbox to Google Drive and so on.
Couchdrop already integrates well with all of your current storage providers — making this a no-brainer. Couchdrop now offers Couchdrop Move which lets you sit back, relax and leave the heavy lifting to us.
To put it simply, you log in, select Couchdrop Move, specify the source and destination…
Amazon Web Services S3 (AWS) has dominated the market in the cloud storage space since it became prominent. Since the adoption of cloud storage offerings from more traditional companies have raced to compete with AWS S3. There is only one true competitor who isn’t afraid to rival the likes of AWS S3, Azure Blob Storage and Google Cloud Storage when it comes to pricing — Wasabi Cloud Storage.
Pricing, Wasabi prides itself on being 1/5th cheaper than Amazon S3 by offering no egress charges and no API request charges, overall they claim that you can cut your cloud storage costs…
Traditional SFTP has been the chosen file transfer method for many years. SFTP became the improved, secure means of transferring files when its predecessor, FTP, could not securely transfer data.
Since the adoption of SFTP, the world has moved forward to Cloud Storage which offers PaaS, IaaS, Saas and other “services” that are designed to remove the total cost of ownership from businesses. Cloud Storage has many benefits, from security to redundancy and lower costs.
A major struggle for organizations is migrating from SFTP to Cloud Storage with ease; this includes the need for failure recovery, the trust that the…
Couchdrop
Couchdrop simplifies moving and working with files in the cloud. The simple cloud SFTP/FTP/Rsync server and API that works with cloud storage like Dropbox.
