I don't have a server to distribute a Safari extension I made or to deploy updates. Is there a free service I can use instead of putting it on a file sharing website and posting to reddit?
I ended up using Amazon S3.
Just upload the .plist file and link everything up to each other. For low traffic, you won't be charged anything. With a few hundreds of users, it doesn't cost me more than a few cents every month. Keep in mind that your users' browsers will query your .plist file every time they open, so the traffic may pile up that way.
I wrote a detailed tutorial here.
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I have a website where users have the option to upload their profile images. Currently, I'm using Cloudinary to host those images. My client has asked me if I can host those images on HostGator since they already have a paid shared hosting account there. My question is
Can I even do that? I tried that on Heroku and they warn you that images etc stored on their server will be deleted in 24 hours when their dynos restart, and they recommend Amazon S3.
If yes, then I will definitely need some kind of API to work with since all this is handled by my server and there must be a way to upload and delete images programmatically. It would be great if you could point me towards particular resources.
If no, then what are the industry standards for my particular use case?
So guys, how do I prevent users from downloading audio files on my web app (running springboot in backend) by accessing the s3 url !
I want to make it impossible to download the audio files in my website ! Any suggestions pls ?
I assume you mean that you want to make it impossible to download the audio files, but still allow streaming them for playback.
You can't.
If it can be played, it can be downloaded. Simple as that.
At best, you can sign your S3 URLs so that they expire after a short period of time. This gives you control over who accesses your audio files, and prevents them from showing up in searches, or linked to from other sites. You can also look into Encrypted Media Extensions, but it's not all that useful for audio since audio is trivially digitally captured on the output.
My question is essentially how can I get around the storage quota limits enforced on a PWA? A little background...
I am hoping to create an offline-ready line-of-business progressive web app that would ideally push about 2GB of images and video resources onto my user's phones or tablets - well beyond the current storage quota for caches and Indexed DB. What I'd like to be able to do is have my users (we all work at the same company) do a 1 time download of a zip file or directory and have the user's store that on their phone/tablet's file system in a well known directory. As the online version of the app treats these files as URL's, the fetch api would seem ideal since I could serve from online if connected or the local serviceworker managed cache if not online. But the qouta limits have me stumped. None of the files are larger than 15MB, but there's no way to know which files are needed before a user goes offline. Can I use something like an HTML input type=file tag to load files into the cache at runtime and then treat them as URL's? Of course I would remove other files to make room. But since these files wouldn't be coming from "the origin" with its secure https address (a PWA requirement I think) , but rather a local file system, I'm not sure this will work. If it is workable, would my users be forced to browse to the files manually?
If its an option, you can have a native Android service to do the caching part to avoid space constraint and then serve the data from native code to PWA using websockets/secure web sockets.
No PWA solution possible for now. File API has limitation as its sand-boxed.
I am a newbie to AWS and one of the tasks I have is to figure out how to download MSIs, ISOs stored in S3 through a web browser. I read that I could use CLI behind the scenes. So if a customer clicks on one download; the app would make a request to S3 using one of the commands and that would download the file lets say through Google Chrome or IE (Please correct me if I'm wrong in the usage of CLI).
Now if the download stops for some reason due to internet failure; is there a way to resume the download? How do I get a download done through a client.
Thanks in advance for helping. Unfortunately the AWS links gave me very little information so seeking help here!
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Files stored in Amazon S3 can be directly accessed via web browser, just like clicking a link on any website.
If the files are marked as publicly-accessible, anyone with the link can download the file.
If you wish to limit access to the files, your application can generate a pre-signed URL that will work for a limited time period that you specify (eg 5 minutes). Users can use/click that link to download the file within that time period.
You can also download files using the AWS Command-Line Interface (CLI), which has Copy and Sync commands. This would, however, require installation of the CLI on the user's computer. This is great if they are regularly download files or if you wish to automate the download (eg every hour or daily).
If you wish to explore AWS, sign-up for an account and make use of the Free Usage Tier, which lets you try some services for no charge.
We have a bunch of data on S3 (images) but just started reading about Mosso Files (rackspace). Sometime this month they are going to add CDN capabilities so any file you upload is part of the limelight CDN.
Anyone using this service, it's not as well documented or publicized at S3.
Yes, it's not well documented or publicized as S3. But dude it has CDN support which S3 is lack off (unless you willing to pay extra of course). Bad thing is you can't FTP into Mosso CloudFile, you will either have to upload it through web-based control panel or API. Yet, it's still cheap and worth especially with CDN.
I am using the service and it's pretty good and cost effective compare to S3.
We use it for all our client sites, from images to podcasts, and it's hand down, the best way to distribute content and make it highly available - especially at this price!
cheers