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Posted by Michael J. Pelletier on June 30, 2005, 8:23 am
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Giuseppe wrote:
> A person I know needs to receive large files (about 500 Mb) from his
> customers to be downloaded and then worked.
> Each customer should have his own protected area.
> He has contacted a computer company (moreover distant more than 100 km
> from his office) that has proposed this solution:
> 1. buying a server to mantain in his office
> 2. SO linux based upon kernel 2.6xx
> 3. web server&php. apache
> 4. firewall
> 5. installation of cwfm (a software that manages files, at first I
> believed that should be created by them, but then I found out to be free
> on the net http://cwfm.sourceforge.net) upload and download are managed
> via http
>
> The economic offer was:
> - installation SO linux: configuration linux, apache, php, dns, iptables
> and
> cwfm --->3000 euro (about 3600 dollars)
> - mantainance ---> first year free, from the second on 1000 euro (about
> 1200 dollars)
> purchasing of the server is apart
>
> I'm very doubfull about this, but the person who should buy everything is
> even enthustiastic about the onesty and knoledge of these people.
>
> They insisted above all on the issue of security, as if hackers ordinary
> waste their time to manage to keep wedding albums sent via the internt,
> and they told him that ftp is not secure for this and their program is
> based upon http. "It could be seriously risky for his customer privacy"
> !!!
>
> questions:
> 1) do you relly think that http is more secure than ftp?
HTTPS, yes. Remember ftp sends in clear text!
> 2) do you think http is the right solution for uploading so large files?
I do it. I use a program called Horde that has a file system interface
(written in php). and it works quite well.
> 3) what do you think about the economic offer? Consider that I' writing
> from Italy and here everything is cheaper compared to, for example USA or
> northern europe. So you have to consider higher the sum he has to pay.
I do think it is a little expensive...
> Has somebody some link to correlated topics? As it seems that I have no
> authority with this person, wich insted should have a site with articles
> written by knoledged people. I've made a search on the internt but I was
> non able to find anything usefull.
I do not have any problems with the applications. Just the price seems a
little high. You get a year of maintenance? What does it include?
Michael
>
> bye and thank you to those who will express an opinion
>
>
>
> Giuseppe
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