Scenario: A small business wants to share files securely with its clients. Some of the files are typical (e.g. word processing or spreadsheet docs), whereas some files may be large (e.g. database backups or video clips).
The small business clients are not necessarily technically inclined, and probably wouldn't be able to cope with SFTP/FTPS/PGP etc. or anything complicated or requiring software on their end, other than a web browser.
Specific features of interest are:
- Secure
- Reliable
- Web-based
- Ability to manage logins and access controls by client
- Branded to look like small business; e.g. business logo and/or sub-domain
- Relatively low-cost; e.g. $NN/month or $NNN/month but not $NNNN/month 🙂
- Did I mention secure?
So, what hosted services are available? Please also mention where they are hosted.
Your votes and opinions are also of interest, so if you already see your choice here and/or have something to say about it, please vote or comment accordingly.
Best Answer
Have you ever thinking about MS SharePoint ?
sharepointhosting is one of possible providers where you may host your solution, but you may google for SharePoint hosting and find a lot of other choices.
Also, in the past we used CentralDesktop and BaseCamp. Both tools allow share files but both are not only file-sharing tools. They are project-based collaboration tools so you can share tasks, calendars, have dashboards and much more...
I will also recomend you to separate backup storage and file sharing systems. They will have different load and you will be able to find more optimal prices if you will take different systems. For backup storage I would recommend you to look for solutions that use cloud services, like Amazon S3 They have lower price for storage.