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Ask HN: What is your favorite method of sending large files?
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Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite method of sending large files?
#92Bittorrent. No, really. Lots of nice behaviors when transferring large amounts of data between arbitrary endpoints. Transferring the torrent metadata is pretty trivial and can be done via a wide range of methods, and having that flexibility can be nice. Unlike HTTP, you get reasonable retry behavior on network hiccups. Also, more robust data integrity guarantees, though a manual hash test is probably a good idea eith…
Can you recommend easy software to do the creation?
Don't you need a tracker as well?
Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite method of sending large files?
#93I have a raspberry pi with a hard drive. I throw the files in that and then use dat/ipfs.
Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite method of sending large files?
#94I was asking myself exactly this a few days ago, to share ~500mb worth of files with a few people on a message board. https://gofile.io/ worked fine.
Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite method of sending large files?
#95S3. Sometimes I do that even when I'm transferring on my local network just because I know the flow so well. After all, my speed to the Internet is roughly the same as the speed on my LAN. They're both gigabit duplex.
You config IAM perms every time?
I actually just use https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/s3/presign....
Then I copy-paste that into a self-Slack and `wget` it on the other side.
It's almost equivalent ergonomically to a `python3 -m http.server` and because it's the same whether I'm giving to someone else or to myself, I spend less thinking!
Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite method of sending large files?
#96Bittorrent. No, really. Lots of nice behaviors when transferring large amounts of data between arbitrary endpoints. Transferring the torrent metadata is pretty trivial and can be done via a wide range of methods, and having that flexibility can be nice. Unlike HTTP, you get reasonable retry behavior on network hiccups. Also, more robust data integrity guarantees, though a manual hash test is probably a good idea eith…
Sometimes I wonder if the bad connotation due to piracy made this protocol not standard (in a sense, that's not widely adopted, and people need dedicated clients, instead of it working for example in browsers).
I don't know enough, maybe it has security issues, or some limits... but the fact is that it's still widely used, by tech literate people, so it still stands the test of time and it must be doing something right.
Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite method of sending large files?
#97Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite method of sending large files?
#98I use Dropbox to send and receive files that over the email/slack/etc attachment limit. Dropbox has a cool "request files" feature that let's people upload files directly to your Dropbox.
I've never needed to send TBs of data.
Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite method of sending large files?
#99I asked the same question on HN about 3 years ago[0]. I'm curious to see how the answers have changed and what might have stayed the same.
Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite method of sending large files?
#1005GB on my local network: Windows File Share, Rsync, or HTTP depending on source/destination 5GB on Internet: Upload to my OVH VPS and HTTP or Rsync it to its destination 10TB, local or Internet: Physical Hard Drive. Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of backup tapes! https://www.tidbitsfortechs.com/2013/09/never-underestimate-... And since you now buy 1TB micro SD cards, so perhaps I'd split th…
Since credit cards go through the mail, I assume you can send SDs in an envelope for a few cents, right? Fast and cheap. Although this anecdote says USPS radiation scanning might wipe it, anyone have experience? https://www.thewanderinglensman.com/2014/01/warning-dont-mai...