Re: is that a good offer for a server installation?
From: Michael Heiming (michael+USENET_at_www.heiming.de)
Date: 06/30/05
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Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 19:04:24 +0200
In comp.os.linux.networking Giuseppe <cames@hotmail.it>:
> 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)
If I'd got that for any Linux system setup by me, man I'd be
rich.;)
> - mantainance ---> first year free, from the second on 1000 euro (about 1200
> dollars)
> purchasing of the server is apart
[..]
> questions:
> 1) do you relly think that http is more secure than ftp?
If you'd use the complete upload service with https for sure,
http itself has no more security then ftp (user/password) travel
in clear text over th internet. At least there are far less
security exploits against http server then ftp, but that's all.
> 2) do you think http is the right solution for uploading so large files?
Should be no big problem, even if ftp with the proper
server/client combination allows resuming uploads, a big pro.
Never heard you could do this with http upload, but I might be
wrong.
> 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.
Can't say much, is this including hardware support? What response
times? What service times, 24/7? Any availability/SLA guarantees?
You could ask the company for references and try calling some of
them and ask how satisfied they are with the service.
> 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.
Hire someone who has a clue?
Good luck
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