Hi, I'm the IT at a small newspaper

[cavenewt]

Hi, I do the IT at a small weekly newspaper in Wyoming. I'm always on the lookout for some way to keep my people from sending and receiving 1-15mb files by email, as they will insist on doing. We have an FTP server but a lot of our customers can't grok FTP; a large part of the big-file traffic is PDF ad proofs and the like. So I will look into Enclose. What looks especially attractive is the automatic server-housekeeping (having older files evaporate to make room for new ones, if I understand the description correctly.)

One thing I'm concerned about is the use of dot mac for the file storage. I've been sorely disappointed in the slowness of file uploads and downloads with my dot mac account. I wonder if Google Apps will be usable? Not only free, but it *has* to be faster than dot mac.

I have a couple of questions that I'll post in a different forum area.

BTW, I heard about Enclose on macintouch.com.

--Colleen

[Paul Collins]

I find .Mac upload speeds to be reasonable--I calculated 2.91Mb/sec (that's bits not bytes) for a 50MB upload yesterday, which is about what my upload bandwidth is. Download could be faster--I got 3.00Mb/sec, whereas a bluehost.com download was about twice that. Still not bad.

If you used a server at your newspaper, you'd get great speed for everyone on site; external speed would depend on your own bandwidth.

Still, suggestions for good servers to use with Enclose are welcome, especially if they support WebDAV.