Have you ever been troubleshooting an issue with a piece of equipment and have the support person on the other end of the line say to you “just ftp that log file up here to us and we’ll figure out your problem right away”, but you know that ftp is blocked from your site? Well, there are a variety of options available to you, including: drive to the local Starbucks (or other local hotspot) and use their Wi-Fi connection, email the log to him (oops, it is too big!), put it on your site and tell him to download it from you, burn it to CD and snail mail it to them (HA!), and more; but none of these are really optimal solutions. Today one of our support engineers reminded me that this is a common problem, and that there are some really great tools out there for solving it. The one she suggested is website called YouSendIt, and they allow you to upload a file to them via a web interface (up to 100M for free), then they email a link to the recipient (or you, which you can forward) and they download it form a web URL. No more problems with FTP, because now it is just a web page like any other! They offer fairly inexpensive paid services which you can use to boost the max file size (I’ve actually used it to distribute files over 1.5G!).
YouSendIt - File Sharing Transfer Delivery - PC FTP Replacement
