a few friends and I were thinking about how to share our free textures including jpgs, HDRIs, as well as blend material and Thea material libraries and files.
At all this could easily grow to few GB of disk space.
Anybody has a good idea about a service for that?
I would mainly be interested in a desktop sync function which can be done via FTP.
dropbox or sugarsync are quite cool apps but they only offer a free 5 gig service which we easily would fill up.
Mediafire has unlimited but has not desktop tool.
Google Docs is quite cheap, 5$ for 20 GB / year but it has limited file suport.
At the end I am even considering running an FTP server on my laptop through which we can sync our files.
I am more looking for just something like an FTP server you can browse and also sync
with your desktop.
I am customer of Fatcow but I am not sure if those domain hosters really appreciate
a folder with textures and materials eating up some gigs even under the unlimited diskspace plan
where they state that they understand unlimited under normal use.
Setting up your own FTP type thing would probably be the best thing I’d imagine.
I’ve been making use of an SVN set-up for a project and the bandwidth usage is pretty low once the first main bulk transfer is done, that is if other people are connecting to your FTP for the first time and transferring all of the data, after that even if you upload a dozen images at a time or video files the bandwidth won’t be too taxing.
The storage space will, more than likely end up being several GB’s though so I would definitely saying a local FTP server would be preferable as you’d not have to upload it to a distant server before anyone else can get the files, and you also can make backups easily whenever you like.
http://www.freehostingcloud.com/ free, unlimited space and bandwidth. it does have ftp unlimited. the one limit i did see was 30mb per file. but as long as all your textures are under 30mb it might be what you are looking for.
It has a good uptime, in the last few years I was down twice, once for 1 day, once for 4 days, latter was a major hardware breakdown on their side, didn´t loose any data though.
The support is crap, download speeds could be better, but its cheap and vast.
30GB webspace, no traffic limit.
includes one top level domain.
2xFTP access, 150subdomains, 25mysql DBs, pop3 mailsystem, perl, php, ssi, cgi-bin, commercial usage, joomla and typo3 ready.
23 Euro/year + onetime 10 Euro setup fee.
If you split with one of your friend its less than 1 Euro a month in expenses. I bet you loose more change a month out of your pocket
@aermartin:
you should read the post before you reply.
i don’t know all details but nonetheless:
sparkleshare is a free alternative to dropbox. it’s basically a frontend to a Git repository, which can run on your own server. the release candidate is out, so it should get stable very soon. http://sparkleshare.org
edit:
afaik it was initiated by a former ubuntu developer.
All those hosting services end up being dead links a year later. If you don’t want to pay to store the stuff on your own domain I would think sharecg.com or blendswap.com are good places because they already have a search and licensing mechanism in place.
still dropbox is the best, 10$ which is virtually nothing in your a production team , per month for 50GB and the best/easiest share/sync app I’ve come along.
Another good storage/sharing/backup service is https://www.jungledisk.com/. It’s basically a nice frontend for Amazon S3 Storage. Paid, but quite reasonable.
IDD. If that´s an issue of course.
And for pure desktop and individual use dropbox is grand.
But in Claas case (which we´r talking about here ) he´d also need webspace afterwards to host the site, and link all the dropbox files.
If he just buys webspace and the domain (which is cheaper than dropbox) he can use part for personal stuff, part for the texture repository.
Also every cheapass synchtool can synch to FTP.
So he would have his repository local, could work there, the sync tool could run twice a day updating the repository online and a php script would have to parse the online repo and simply add the files to the download section.
If he wants to implement usermanagement as well he has a mySQL database there too.
If he wnats to offer search, you can work with tags and use the mySQL database again.
In the end of the day I wonder though why not cooperate with an existing page.
Sure it is fun to do something by yourself, but then again its work which most likely will not pay.
I don´t see why everyone has to do a texture/material site - yeh, there is no personal glory if you are just part of a library, however most people don´t care where they got their free stuff anyways.
Just look in your bookmarks how many texture sites all of you already got bookmarked
Dropbox is pretty awesome which we use, I have 10 GB with it but one of our friends
would be new and thus have a lot GB amount.
I find dropbox and sugarsync to be really good - and box.net when paid is a dramatic great tool
because it allows more then communication tools like tasks and comments added to files.
Pretty awesome.
These are my best three online file storage.
I have to check out jungledisk.