Good, free relatively large FTP host

[craigba]

Hey y'all,

Anyone know of a free and good FTP host? I shouldn't need to host more than 1 GB (max) at a time.

Cool,

Craig

 

[guest2013-1]

Hey y'all,

Anyone know of a free and good FTP host? I shouldn't need to host more than 1 GB (max) at a time.

Cool,

Craig

dropbox, you can then share it via HTTP with people instead of FTP (which some firewalls may block, depending where they work)

 

[craigba]

dropbox, you can then share it via HTTP with people instead of FTP (which some firewalls may block, depending where they work)

Yes, Dropbox is awesome (and 2GBs is a lot of space). But this is for clients' backups - as you probably know, people only do backups once it's too late, so I want the app to automatically FTP to a specific place (unless you might know how I would copy to Dropbox programmatically

 

[w1z4rd]

Have you looked at SpiderOak for backups?

Oh, and you are not going to find a free FTP host where you can reliably put backups. FYI.

 

[Chevron]

You have "free", "good", "large" all in the same sentence, then mention "backup". :wtf:

If you want something with all those qualities you need to sacrifice free.

 

[guest2013-1]

Yes, Dropbox is awesome (and 2GBs is a lot of space). But this is for clients' backups - as you probably know, people only do backups once it's too late, so I want the app to automatically FTP to a specific place (unless you might know how I would copy to Dropbox programmatically

Dropbox has a windows application that runs in the background that monitors a specific directory on the PC. Once a file gets modified or added or deleted, it automatically does those modifications and uploads/modifies/deletes the file on the Dropbox account.

So you can run a backup program (built into windows) that'll drop the backup in the directory that dropbox monitors and then it'll automatically upload that to the dropbox account.

Also, depending WHAT you want to backup (seeing as this is hosting), if you host with MWEB/Web Africa or Hetzner, they do have NAS FTP backups you can use, I think they come with the account for free, but if they don't it's like R50 extra which isn't much for peace of mind