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Organizational space for the Rutgers IEEE Student Branch.
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Find larger file storage solution #29

Open mkoval opened 13 years ago

mkoval commented 13 years ago

Dropbox is already overflowing, so we need a more scalable solution. Options:

  1. Another cloud storage provider.
  2. University server
  3. File server in the IEEE office.
Bokonon366 commented 13 years ago

Feel free to use my webserver to store files.

http://mikedilalo.com/RUIEE/qisud489034hffondjmkd0jd48h430987hv508745hgf90hg/browse.php

mkoval commented 13 years ago

How much space/bandwidth could we reasonably use on your web server? We already have around 10 GB on Dropbox and there are other files that we're not sharing entirely due to space concerns.

Bokonon366 commented 13 years ago

I have an unlimited plan on a shared server so it realistically is as big as we need it to be.

mkoval commented 13 years ago

Are you sure it's really unlimited? Most shared hosts offer "unlimited" storage and bandwidth, but force you to upgrade to a large dedicated plan if you use more than they expect.

Bokonon366 commented 13 years ago

This is true. Even though this should work for any immediate demands, I think the obvious long term solution is going to be paying for some cloud space... I'll look in to this when I get a free minute and let you know what the most feasible options look like.

mkoval commented 13 years ago

If you have a few places in mind we could ask for sponsorship. There is virtually no marginal cost in adding someone with our needs, so it's virtually free publicity.

Bokonon366 commented 13 years ago

In the mean time, you can go to http://www.dropbox.com/edu and login. If you confirm a .edu e-mail address, they will retroactively double the referral award space (250MB --> 500MB). Doing this will get us up to 16GB but I'll see if there is anything else we can get anyway.

mkoval commented 13 years ago

I'm looking into using iFolder as a drop-in-replacement for Dropbox. It seems to be working, but I still need to resolve some issues with the Mac and Linux clients.

Bokonon366 commented 13 years ago

iFolder seems like it would work perfectly as long as we have access to a box to put it on.