Upload server

[rugter100]

Hey guys.

A friend of mine recently contacted me about wanting to store their raw footage in a cloud server so he can easily share it with people. I thought it might be a good idea to get a upload server with an ssd where he can upload his footage (locally) and the server will then start uploading it to the cloud (this because his upload speeds are not very fast). Do you guys have any takes on this? Should i advise to get your own server? And what do you advise for a cheap upload server that can handle sata6gb or m.2 ssds? I thougt about a raspberry but then it would have to go via usb which i dont think is a great idea.

 

I would love to hear what you guys think

EDIT: I am aware that this will not make the upload faster i just want to offload the uploading to a raspberry

EDIT: Does anyone know any good way to make a temp storage server to upload the files for instance to onedrive and after upload the files get removed from the local server?

[Jisagi]

If your friends network is the bottleneck, no seperate "upload server" will help that. He can either just leave his computer on 24/7 or just use some low power raspi with enough space via a usbstick or an external drive. There is no real reason to get a full blown server just to have the same network bottleneck than with his main computer.

[burh4n]

11 minutes ago, rugter100 said:

I thought it might be a good idea to get a upload server with an ssd where he can upload his footage (locally) and the server will then start uploading it to the cloud (this because his upload speeds are not very fast).

I mean, if his upload speeds are slow in general, I'm not sure if it'll matter if the server does it or if it's directly from his main computer. 

[rugter100]

3 minutes ago, Jisagi said:

If your friends network is the bottleneck, no seperate "upload server" will help that. He can either just leave his computer on 24/7 or just use some low power raspi with enough space via a usbstick or an external drive. There is no real reason to get a full blown server just to have the same network bottleneck than with his main computer.

yeah its just the idea of getting a 'server' which just takes the files you upload to it and then starts uploading to the cloud so he can shut off his pc and sleep without fan noise

[Guest]

15 minutes ago, rugter100 said:

Hey guys.

A friend of mine recently contacted me about wanting to store their raw footage in a cloud server so he can easily share it with people. I thought it might be a good idea to get a upload server with an ssd where he can upload his footage (locally) and the server will then start uploading it to the cloud (this because his upload speeds are not very fast). Do you guys have any takes on this? Should i advise to get your own server? And what do you advise for a cheap upload server that can handle sata6gb or m.2 ssds? I thougt about a raspberry but then it would have to go via usb which i dont think is a great idea.

 

I would love to hear what you guys think

It's not like the server is going to increase the upload speed offered by his ISP. If the offered connection is the bottleneck than a dedicated upload server isn't going to help in any way. 

[berberries]

1 minute ago, rugter100 said:

yeah its just the idea of getting a 'server' which just takes the files you upload to it and then starts uploading to the cloud so he can shut off his pc and sleep without fan noise

then just get a low powered pi with an external hard drive plugged in, since its an ISP speed limited issue, USB 3.0 will not be a limit. in fact USB 3.0 is capable of 500MB/s which is 4 Gigabit/s, definitely won't be saturated by most people's internet speed.

[Jisagi]

1 minute ago, rugter100 said:

yeah its just the idea of getting a 'server' which just takes the files you upload to it and then starts uploading to the cloud so he can shut off his pc and sleep without fan noise

Then any low power board like a raspberry pi with enough drive space for his usecase is the easiest and probably best solution. Your friends actual upload speed would be good to know, just in case. I don't want to recommend a raspi if his "slow upload speed" is gigabit. A raspi might anotherwise not be fast enough, depending on the model

[rugter100]

Just now, Jisagi said:

Then any low power board like a raspberry pi with enough drive space for his usecase is the easiest and probably best solution. Your friends actual upload speed would be good to know, just in case. I don't want to recommend a raspi if his "slow upload speed" is gigabit. A raspi might anotherwise not be fast enough, depending on the model

his upload speed is 50mbit/s (the highest speed provider (which has a monopoly on it) in our country does not feel like providing more than 50mbit/s upload

[berberries]

1 minute ago, rugter100 said:

his upload speed is 50mbit/s (the highest speed provider (which has a monopoly on it) in our country does not feel like providing more than 50mbit/s upload

raspberry pi it is

[Jisagi]

Just now, rugter100 said:

his upload speed is 50mbit/s (the highest speed provider (which has a monopoly on it) in our country does not feel like providing more than 50mbit/s upload

Then, just @berberries said, a raspberry pi and some external drive are more than fast enough for this usecase.

[rugter100]

Thanks then i will look into what ill buy. 

Does anyone here have any advice on how i could make it upload and then delete it after upload in a linux enviroment? Is there mabye a cloud service that has support for stuff like this?

[Jisagi]

You can upload to most cloud services automatically in some way or another. Highly depends on the service how easy or complicated it is. Some let you do it native with their tools or through certain endpoints, otherwise need 3rd party software for it

[homeap5]

16 minutes ago, rugter100 said:

yeah its just the idea of getting a 'server' which just takes the files you upload to it and then starts uploading to the cloud so he can shut off his pc and sleep without fan noise

If you can hear fan noise it means you should fix your build. Modern computers can be very silent so you can't even notice they're working (except when you play games or made some really heavy jobs).

[rugter100]

3 hours ago, homeap5 said:

If you can hear fan noise it means you should fix your build. Modern computers can be very silent so you can't even notice they're working (except when you play games or made some really heavy jobs).

that is the case for desktops but sadly not for laptops

[homeap5]

18 minutes ago, rugter100 said:

that is the case for desktops but sadly not for laptops

Laptop that only upload things should be silent too. It's not so demanding job. But right - changing anything is way more difficult.