Wednesday, October 28th, 2009
We use a lot of open source software at SmartFile. Therefore, when we have the chance, we like to give back to the community.
We recently implemented more detailed graphing and monitoring using Cacti and Nagios. If you are unfamiliar with these open source software packages, I would urge you to check them out as they are incredibly useful.
Today, we are happy to provide the a plugin for Cacti to monitor proftpd, the FTP server we use at SmartFile. The plugin allows Cacti to graph the number of users connected to the FTP server as well as the number of active uploads/downloads.
To see our posting in the Cacti forums which provides this plugin as well as instructions, please see the link below.
http://forums.cacti.net/viewtopic.php?t=34722
We will use this blog to release other contributions from time to time.
Tags: cacti, open source, proftpd
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Wednesday, October 21st, 2009
Source: Indianapolis Business Journal
Writer: Chris O’Malley
Date: 10/19/09
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Monday, October 5th, 2009
Emailing large files can impossible for most. Most emailing providers limit your attachment size to 10MB per email. This can be difficult when you have a manufacturer in China needing an important CAD file to start building the widget that is going to make you millions. Or how about a client in Malaysia needing the PowerPoint presentation you spent all night on to deliver the big speech.
Recently China blocked a big player specializing in emailing large files. I won’t mention any names, but if you Google the term “Emailing Large Files” they will be the top result. Obviously this has caused a huge problem for them and their customer base.
Did you know that SmartFile allows to not only FTP and share large files, but you can also email them too? We have also just introduced a feature that allows you to email directories of files, thus allowing you to send one link to several files. You can also define how many times the file is downloaded and set an date for the link to expire. Pretty cool, huh? Best of all our service works in China!
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