File Uploads

Here are the pros / cons to each:

• Can use through website with no special configuration or software
• Works well with small files (8 MB or smaller)

• Cannot resume file upload
• Changing upload limit sizes requires changing web server configuration
• Uploads may time out, and would have to be restarted
• Web server has a long time out length, so upload could break and user wouldn't know for some time
• Can only upload a few files at a time
• No rate-limiting – the upload uses all available bandwidth

• Works well with large files (8MB and higher, up to gigabytes in size)
• Can setup rate-limiting (how fast a file can be uploaded) so the network is not saturated
• File uploads can be resumed, in case of disconnects or network issues
• Directory support – users can see which files are available, and upload, delete, rename, etc.

• Requires an FTP server
• Must create an FTP user account
• Client needs to setup FTP software and be familiar with using it
• Little to no web app integration