From: Richard B. 

On Wed, 7 Jul 2004 11:46:52 -0400, "Geo."  wrote:

>Host it locally, there really is no reason to put an FTP site on an ISP's
>server unless you expect to need lots of bandwidth for folks downloading stuff
>from it. It's twice as much work that way (they upload then you have to
>download)

Probably not a bandwidth issue except for the physical size of the CAD files.

>As a simple way for people to get files to you, it's cheap to host internally,
>wftpd is like $100 for unlimited users and it's so easy to setup that I can't
>see any reason to pay a monthly charge. The only issue you'll come up against
>is people behind corporate proxy servers that don't allow ftp, in those cases
>you are forced to use either email or maybe ICQ.

I'll set one up for testing and check it out.

>Actually my preference is always ICQ first for file transfers but it's just
not
>very popular among business types for some reason I just don't understand. At
>the ISP we use it with customers and phoneco contacts all the time because
it's
>just too handy to ignore.

Security issues?  My layered protection would be peeled away by allowing
such a connection.

- Richard

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