Re: Best way to share large files with web users

Kirk, no I am not concerned about the cost. Just trying to understand how it works. The decision has been made to forge ahead using S3. Before I create an account for development I want to be sure that I am not painting my self into a corner which is what I gleaned from your warning. After watc

Re: Best way to share large files with web users

John, Lee is right. The cost isn't really an issue. It's that once you setup stuff in 'your' account it's there. It can be moved but this could be tedious. I'm a big fan of the separation of church and state so I prefer to be able to let my client 'stuff' be separate from my personal 'stuff'. That'

Re: Best way to share large files with web users

The cost for S3 is minimal. Especially for dev use where you can control file size. It'll be pennies. On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 9:34 AM JOHN BAUGHMAN via 4D_Tech < 4d_tech@lists.4d.com> wrote: > > > > On Jun 29, 2018, at 6:01 AM, Kirk Brooks via 4D_Tech < > 4d_tech@lists.4d.com> wrote: > > > > alt

Re: Best way to share large files with web users

> On Jun 29, 2018, at 6:01 AM, Kirk Brooks via 4D_Tech <4d_tech@lists.4d.com> > wrote: > > although you only ever get one year free. I was thinking that if I use my personal account or create a new account in my company name and use it for development, I could then for deployment create a

Re: Best way to share large files with web users

John, On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 9:37 PM JOHN BAUGHMAN via 4D_Tech < 4d_tech@lists.4d.com> wrote: > > One tip - and I think Bruno says this to in his docs - setup a > > 'development' bucket to use for testing. > > I am not following you. Watching Bruno’s demo it looked like one > could have

Re: Best way to share large files with web users

Hi John, In the demo, take a look at AWS_S3_uploadFile, which will call AWS_S3__uploadFileMultipart for files which are bigger than 10 Mb... Chunks have a minimal size of 5242880 bytes (5Mb). This is done transparently when calling AWS_S3_uploadFile.. This code is not integrated in the componen

Re: Best way to share large files with web users

> On Jun 28, 2018, at 5:55 PM, Kirk Brooks via 4D_Tech <4d_tech@lists.4d.com> > wrote: > > The free tier will give you a chance to see what your actual charges would > be. Basically you are paying a small amount to store the data, basically > zero to upload it and are charged when you download i

Re: Best way to share large files with web users

John, The free tier will give you a chance to see what your actual charges would be. Basically you are paying a small amount to store the data, basically zero to upload it and are charged when you download it. I'm not sure what the exact specifics are for development vs. first year free. I got my s

Re: Best way to share large files with web users

Kirk, You said less than $10 a month. I took a look at the AWS Cost Calculator and couldn’t figure out how to use it. I anticipate using S3 for the sole purpose of sharing files that average around 500mb with a few pushing 1gb. We might have at most 10 or so requests a month a

Re: Best way to share large files with web users

Hi Bruno, I just finished watching you excellent S3 presentation at 4DMethod.com. This looks like an excellent way for me to go… Thank You! Quick question… you mentioned that for large files one should consider sending the file in chunks. In your view what is a large file, beyon

Re: Best way to share large files with web users

John, I'll second Bruno's suggestion and suggest you go get his component to do it. I've been using it for at least a year managing about 50k docs in AWS. It works well and AWS is very cost effective for light duty like this. I think we are paying ~$10 a month for all the stuff we use. It is reall

Re: Best way to share large files with web users

Hi, Have you though of using S3 ? You can push the file to S3 and generate a url with to that file and send the url by mail. The url can contain the credentials (and is "time bombed") Then you could also define life cycle rules to your objects so they can be automatically removed from S3 after

Re: Best way to share large files with web users

Thanks Chuck. Looking at the DropBox API I was just now thinking that using an FTP might be easier. John Baughman 1331 Auwaiku Street Kailua, Hawaii 96734 (808) 262-0328 john...@hawaii.rr.com > On Jun 28, 2018, at 10:50 AM, Charles Miller via 4D_Tech > <4d_tech@lists.4d.com> wrote: > > Just

Re: Best way to share large files with web users

Just remember that there are file size limits. If you zip first does it get smaller. You could also use an ftp site as part of your website and send link to the file that they could download Hope this helps Regards Chuck On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 4:42 PM JOHN BAUGHMAN via 4D_Tech < 4d_tech@lists.4d

Best way to share large files with web users

I have a website with 4D backend that serves architectural drawings in PDF format. Each drawing is part of a larger set of drawings for a specific project. I need to provide a means for the user to download the entire set of drawings in a single PDF. I already have the project PDFs created and