on-rev upload limits and Amazon S3 as an alternative

Peter Haworth pete at mollysrevenge.com
Fri Jan 28 18:03:36 EST 2011


Another good one is box.net.  You get 5gigs free with them but there is a 25meg(?) limit on individual file size.

Pete Haworth
On Jan 28, 2011, at 1:28 PM, François Chaplais wrote:

> Have you tried Dropbox on local/cloud storage and syncing? They have a free 2 gig account and it is very, very convenient. It has Windows, Mac, Iphone, IPad (and Linux I believe), and it can also be used from an internet browser. It syncs local dropbox folders on your PC/device; you can also send http links for files in the public subfolder.
> www.dropbox.com
> Best,
> 	François
> Le 28 janv. 2011 à 16:05, Martin Koob a écrit :
> 
>> 
>> I have been testing uploading via post to on-rev and have found the limit is
>> about 10.1 MB.  I was using movie files of various sizes and the largest I
>> could successfully upload was 10.1 MB.  If I tried one of 10.2 Mb it would
>> write a Quicktime file that had no data in it, it was  0 MB file.  If I
>> tried to open it Quicktime gave a 'This is not a movie file' error.
>> 
>> I guess this is a limit set in the on-rev server.  
>> 
>> As a way of accommodating larger file uploads for a site hosted on on-rev I
>> am thinking of using Amazon S3.
>> 
>> I want to use browser based uploads to have users upload a movie to the
>> server and then use authenticated URLs to access the movie files. 
>> 
>> Has anyone done something like this?
>> 
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