Re:Show HN: MASV – Send 20GB+ files up to 1 Gbps. Pay-as-you...
by davehorne on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @05:05PM
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Couldn't have summarized it better myself. I like to think we are just making cloud services more accessible for non-technical people and adding a tax to that. There is always ways to get something cheaper by rigging up a setup yourself but for creators that is time that could be spent on creating instead of infrastructure or tooling.
Re:Show HN: MASV – Send 20GB+ files up to 1 Gbps. Pay-as-you...
by justinsaccount on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @05:42PM
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I was asking the person who said
> bash script that will chunk and scp the files to a central server, and if it fails a chunk, it leaves it in the directory for her to manually re-run
not responding to the linked post itself.
This is for sending large assets from party A to party B, where either the parties do not have access to a shared rsync-capable server, or they do not know how to use rsync. On a deadline, you can't afford to become a CLI trainer or require special software.
A common use case would involve service bureaus and creators. Trust me when I say that there are a hell of a lot of creators out there who would never be able to manage rsync. You want to make stuff like this drop-dead simple for people. That means a service that works in-browser.