FTP Hosting – Online Storage for Large Files
The days of the 300MB hard drive are long gone! These days you would be lucky if your holiday photos are less than 1000MB alone. We are also now in a world where nearly all computers and devices are Internet-connected, which opens a world of opportunity for sharing files across the globe.
The main obstacle with sharing such files is having somewhere to store them online that is easily accessible, has capacity for now and the future, as well as the infrastructure to serve the files at an acceptable speed no matter your location. For this reason its important to find a reliable FTP Hosting provider.
FTP Hosting provides a common interface for sharing files across the Internet and although FTP has been around for decades, it is a widely supported protocol. Many FTP Hosting solutions also offer additional interfaces to access your files, for example through Web Based panels over HTTP or HTTPS. Also, if you need encryption of your data during transmission, FTP Hosting solutions are out there that support the SFTP (port 22) and FTPS (certificates) protocols.
While web based panels are great and offer data sharing on a highly supported interface, many browsers still do not support the upload of files larger than 2GB over HTTP or HTTPS. The standard or encrypted FTP protocols for FTP Hosting and Online Storage are still great ways for transferring large files and often have the ability to resume uploads and downloads that were paused or where communication was lost mid-transfer.
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