FTP Setup

[Smiffy]

Chaps, I hope somebody can help.

I run a business from home, working with a lot of data on a daily basis.

It has got to the stage where the data is no longer able to be emailed to me due to the size.

I need an FTP where a couple of clients can make a data dump every day (Only around 50MB a day at the moment) that I can then pickup and process on my home machine.

Would need no more than about 2GB total storage space, as I will save the raw data on my machine fairly regularly.

Obviously as I am working at home, I do not really want to go down the route of a server at home, but I do have a spare PC I could in theory use as a server (although I have no idea how you go about hosting yourself)
So I would be looking for a hosted remote service, in the U.K. if possible.

I do not want to pay too much for it either, have only just started up so not much cash to play with. Less than £30 per month would be ideal.

I also have a domain name that I have registered and if possible I would like the FTP pointed to it (Again I have no idea how to do this!)

I'm hoping someone on here offers such a service and can do me a very good rate. The business will be expanding rapidly next year I hope, so plenty of scope for further business should someone be so kind to offer their services now...

Any help, greatly received.

Ta muchly.

 

[Cricko]

This should be in the Techy forum.:)

 

[jstallan]

Would this information be seen as confidential in any way ?

 

[Smiffy]

Would this information be seen as confidential in any way ?

Yes.

Would need to be a secure server, with full username and password access.

 

[TrueBlue]

Yes.

Would need to be a secure server, with full username and password access.

Can I upload porn to this FTP to share with my perverted mates?

 

[osymandus]

This should help
http://www.ubuntugeek.com/settingup-an-ftp-server-on-ubuntu-with-proftpd.html

Umbuntu is free so is the software and for credientials most of the internet and wikipedia runs on Linux :D

Oh and Umbuntu runs on very old machines as well .

http://www.ubuntu.com/

 

[Hotman]

Try Hostgator.com :) Use them for hosting various sites and they have full FTP service for about a fiver a month. US though

 

[maninasuitcase]

Sorry, it's been a while since I've dealt with FTPs, but every PC with an IP address will also have an FTP address.

Depending on the data you are transferring and in which application the data is stored, you can drag and drop between a PC and a FTP address without any need for software.

 

[Mr Plow]

You could use something like FileZilla Server if you want to go the FTP route or perhaps use something like Megaupload. You may also need to use a service such as DynDNS if you don't have static IPs form your ISP.

Megaupload

FileZilla - The free FTP solution

 

[osymandus]

Plus Firefox has a very good built in FTP (and loads of good add ons)

 

[Pubey]

a simple website could be built as a neat frontend for clients to send files. saves them faffing with FTP software

 

[Jam_Man]

No doubt far too late but Ive used these before :

http://www.sharefile.com