Nov 5, 2020·3 min read
Running that traditional dedicated file transfer server locally or on a virtual machine somewhere? Sick of having to reboot it, or SSH in to add a user and try work through the firewall permissions? How’s that performance going for your customers in a different region?
When first purchasing an InMotion Hosting Cloud VPS system, you have a dedicated IP address and built-in SSH security. This means that as soon as your server has been provisioned you can immediatel. This blog is about connecting to a sftp server via Cloud Connector, not how to connect via SOAP adapter to an on-prem backend.
Moving your SFTP / FTP server to the cloud can be daunting and knowing where to start can provide the first hurdle of them all! Not to mention, you’ve already got all of the data in your current platform, your users have got their usernames and passwords, they probably connect via a known domain and you’ve more than likely got a workflow happening from your platform.
Cloud Based Ftp Services
This article will look at the simplest way to migrate your SFTP / FTP server to the cloud by following the below two steps:
Cloud Sftp Server Settings
- Migrate your data to your cloud storage
- Connect your cloud storage and turn it into an SFTP / FTP server
Every company now should have cloud storage, whether its SharePoint, Google Drive, Box, Amazon S3, Azure Blob or something in between. As this storage often has ‘unlimited’ storage and it’s often accessible by a sync app, this storage becomes a low cost and low access storage solution.
To migrate your data, we recommend using Movebot. It will connect to your SFTP server and quickly transfer your data to any storage provider, whether it is cloud based or on-premise. It’s as simple as logging into your SFTP server using client credentials and logging into your storage using OAuth or bucket API keys.
Movebot is low cost and is a self service migration tool. It doesn’t require any complex sales journey’s or processes. Simply sign up, configure and run. The biggest limiting factor will be your SFTP server upload bandwidth.
Now your data is where you want it, let’s turn it into an SFTP / FTP server using Couchdrop. Couchdrop does one thing, and one thing well and that’s turning your cloud storage into a SFTP / FTP server. It’s fully cloud managed and acts as a great SFTP hosted solution. Couchdrop’s product is simple and does exactly what it needs to. There are no bloated features.
It’s feature set entails the likes of…
- Ability to create additional users and restrict them to specific folders
- Granular user permissions and security via 2FA and IP access
- Bring your own storage, connect your storage to be used as the SFTP / FTP backend
- Ability to create a whitelabelled file upload/virtual file system for your customers to access
- A fully featured API with webhooks for automation and workflows. Anything you can do in the interface can be done through the API
For more information on either of the above, navigate to eithers documentation at Movebot or Couchdrop.
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