Client File Transfer Services
Posted by Dzus76@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 10 comments
Hello,
In order to support our customers we need to transfer large 10GB -> 100Gb files between us and the customers.
We have been using sFTP and Azure blob storage for several years. With a gui front end from market place for our support agents to manage the customer accounts. Many of our customers do not have full time it or anyone on staff that is technically inclined when it comes to anything more then basic computer usage.
Our supplier for the gui front end is updating their licensing which would double our licensing costs.
We currently have about 2 TB of files in the blob storage.
What are other organizations using for similar operations?
Thanks
newworldlife@reddit
The technical part is usually easy. The hard part is making 100GB transfers work for customers who still think ZIP files are “advanced IT.”
phoenix823@reddit
How complicated could a GUI front end to a bunch of Azure blobs be? I'll probably get some shit for it, but I bet it would be a good candidate for a vibe coded replacement...
circling@reddit
Exactly. Claude could make you a working version of this in about 5 minutes.
Master-IT-All@reddit
So? Increase the amount you're billing your customers.
You should be reviewing this quarterly.
And if you were not passing this cost on to customers, well, now you know that you should have.
Learn to business.
gusman21@reddit
project send has worked in most of my scenarios.
https://www.projectsend.org/
shrimp_blowdryer@reddit
What a shit show of a site. Covered in nasty ads
gusman21@reddit
no ads on github
https://github.com/projectsend/projectsend
Honestly, i dont see ads due to pihole and ublock so i never notiiced.
sryan2k1@reddit
Liquidfiles
OttoCheyFen@reddit
I've used CrushFTP on a local server in the past. I liked it, did really well for what we needed (large art files). Licensing was pretty cheap.
Benefits of local server, especially in our case, was setting up mapped drives, so very easy for our users. Of course if you needed cloud access from there you could easily set up a sync for OneDrive or SharePoint.
As with most things in IT as customizability goes up, user-friendliness goes down. I'd rank this very customizable but with a bit of a learning curve on the admin side. End-user is easy - FTP client or web page.
Note: A previous version did have a zero-day incident last year or a couple years ago. Of course take best-practice and minimal-access approach for security.
Ill-Barracuda9031@reddit
Web apps for aws transfer family on s3 gives a friendly interface