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If the data is below 50G in size and on my personal computer, then I just drop it into the Google Drive folder and it syncs to Google over night. When it is don
by mullen 6y ago
If the data is below 50G in size and on my personal computer, then I just drop it into the Google Drive folder and it syncs to Google over night. When it is done, I export it and then send a link to the person(s). I pay $2 a month for the 100G account and I usually have about 50G disk space unused, so this is not an issue for me.
If it is above 50G and on my personal computer, I encrypt the data and then physically mail a USB stick with the data on it. Trying to arrange the downloading/uploading of 50G of data from my personal computer to another personal computer is a real pain. The people that I would send/receive that much data to/from, that is stored on my personal computer are usually people who don't know much about ftp, scp or easily sharing files over the Internet. Sending a USB stick is just so much easier and in many cases, faster. I make sure the recipients know how to decrypt the data before sending the data.
If it is on a server (For example, a side project instance in AWS), then I drop it into S3 bucket, export it and send the URL to the recipient. I just eat the cost of them downloading it. Usually I am making money off the work anyways, so it is the cost of doing business.
- lowwave 6y ago>If it is on a server (For example, a side project instance in AWS), then I drop it into S3 bucket, export it and send the URL to the recipient. I just eat the cost of them downloading it. Usually I am making money off the work anyways, so it is the cost of doing business. Consider BunnyCDN way cheaper than s3.
- StavrosK 6y agoBunnyCDN is a CloudFront alternative, not an S3 alternative.
- farmdawgnation 6y agoThey also offer an object storage product, it seems: https://bunnycdn.com/solutions/cdn-cloud-storage https://bunnycdn.com/solutions/cdn-cloud-storage
- incredimike 6y agoIf the project is already in AWS then it has to be downloaded outside the network at least once. I think s3 is one of the cheapest methods to server files on aws. There is no benefit to a secondary service. BunnyCDN does look good though.
- quietbritishjim 6y ago> If the data is below 50G in size and on my personal computer, then I just drop it into the Google Drive folder I do the same thing with OneDrive. Of course that's the same thing and I'm just agreeing with your answer, there are any number of DropBox-like services (including DropBox!). OneDrive is nice if you have Office 365 because you can password protect a link and send the password via a separate channel, which makes the process pretty secure (if you trust Microsoft with your data).