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

From: Leythos (void_at_nowhere.lan)
Date: 06/30/05

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    In article <4ESwe.29182$D7.795471@twister1.libero.it>, cames@hotmail.it
    says...
    > 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?
    > 2) do you think http is the right solution for uploading so large files?
    > 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.
    >
    > 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.
    >
    >
    > bye and thank you to those who will express an opinion

    While FTP is clear, it's also a very good standard and fully supported.
    Many FTP programs allow the computer admin to setup User/Password/Folder
    without it being part of the OS Security, so you can also restrict via
    the application without giving an OS level account. FileZilla Server is
    a great FTP Server and runs on many platforms.

      

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