Re: is that a good offer for a server installation?

From: Michael J. Pelletier (mjpelletier_at_mjpelletier.com)
Date: 06/30/05 

Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 08:23:20 -0700

Giuseppe wrote:

> 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)
> - mantainance ---> first year free, from the second on 1000 euro (about
> 1200 dollars)
> purchasing of the server is apart
>
> I'm very doubfull about this, but the person who should buy everything is
> even enthustiastic about the onesty and knoledge of these people.
>
> They insisted above all on the issue of security, as if hackers ordinary
> waste their time to manage to keep wedding albums sent via the internt,
> and they told him that ftp is not secure for this and their program is
> based upon http. "It could be seriously risky for his customer privacy"
> !!!
>
> questions:
> 1) do you relly think that http is more secure than ftp?

HTTPS, yes. Remember ftp sends in clear text!

> 2) do you think http is the right solution for uploading so large files?

I do it. I use a program called Horde that has a file system interface
(written in php). and it works quite well.

> 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.

I do think it is a little expensive...

> 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.

I do not have any problems with the applications. Just the price seems a
little high. You get a year of maintenance? What does it include?

Michael

>
> bye and thank you to those who will express an opinion
>
>
>
> Giuseppe

Relevant Pages

  • Re: shadow and password , can you help me ?
    ... But if you are trying to recover ... lost passwords for customers using ftp why not setup a process to assign ... You would need to setup a secure web page to do this. ... Of course ftp is bad in that normally the password is sent in clear text ...
    (Fedora)
  • Re: is that a good offer for a server installation?
    ... > customers to be downloaded and then worked. ... buying a server to mantain in his office ... http itself has no more security then ftp travel ...
    (comp.os.linux.networking)
  • Re: is that a good offer for a server installation?
    ... > FTP is not a secure protocol, ... >>2) do you think http is the right solution for uploading so large files? ... command stream, and a good one will encrypt the data stream as well. ...
    (alt.computer.security)
  • Re: Fedora Core 2 Update: kernel-2.6.6-1.435
    ... for small files, use http. ... Today we use FTP based on the perception I had that FTP is significantly ... better at transferring large files and maximizing bandwidth. ... is also important since most of the customers ...
    (Fedora)
  • Re: VBS and TCP port
    ... get,post http = 80 ... ftp = 21 ... secure, there is another ... You are basically thinking of how to ...
    (microsoft.public.scripting.wsh)