How are you sending large files?

What options do you have for your organization when they need to share large files with people offsite?  Even GMail has a max attachment size that a large graphics file will choke let alone a multi-Gig video file.

Sure FTP is an option but it's not easy enough for the average user to navigate IMO ... and I don't blame them ... I don't even like dorking with FTP.

There are numerous services on the web now like yousendit.com, eatlime.com, drop.io that work well for small files, but I want something more that doesn't cost an arm-n-leg for big files and features.

I'd also like the service to be hosted onsite so our staff have lighting fast upload/downloads to it instead of trying to squeeze it up our always congested pipe.  And above all else it has to be very simple and easy to use ... otherwise it won't get used.  Does such an app exist?

David Drinnon has a sweet sounding drop box app they developed in house, but porting it for other churches doesn't look pretty.  He did suggest I check out Absolute File Send ... as Second uses some of xigla's other products.  I'm liking what I see of AFS so far and the price is right.

I'm still open for suggestions ... you'd think there'd be some linux opensource do-dad that would solve all my issues ... and BTW we are now a linux friendly shop since Matt joined our team :-)

Comments

[Sean S]

I've been using DropSend.com for years. Files up to 1GB, 5 per month for free, online storage, cheap subscription services, and desktop apps for Mac and PC. They've also got multi-user and custom branding options.

[Travis Kensil]

Jason,

I use this with a couple of my consulting customers who do large print work. It seems to work great and is very speedy. Plus its free, can run on a variety of operating systems and is VERY customizable.

http://www.webfilebrowser.org/

[Kirk Longhofer]

Hey Jason...

We're using FilesAnywhere for this. It's relatively cheap, and they have a feature that lets you zip the files you want to download, which saves a bit of time. Still eats bandwidth uploading... but it's so dirt simple to use. We've given up on helping users through the .ftp experience.

[Joshua Gregory]

I usually use filebeam or rapidshare. For large chunks of text like c++, php, or sql files I use pastebin.com

[Jeremy Hoff]

www.senduit.com