| About FilePhile |
Features at a Glance
How and Why FilePhile was created with a very specific goal: to solve the person-to-person file transfer problem. What is the person-to-person file transfer problem? Well, have you ever wanted to send something large to a friend or colleague? First you try e-mail, but it's too big. Then you try a web-based service, but those cost too much, have size limits, use crummy browser-based HTTP file upload, or... well... maybe what you're sending is something confidential and you don't want to upload it to someone else's server. So then, if you or the other party is tech-savvy, you mess around with trying to forward ports, set up FTP servers, and so on. Finally you either cobble something together or give up and mail the person a disk. That's the person-to-person file transfer problem. Our goal is to solve it with a piece of software so easy to use that anyone can use it and that uses the Internet the way it was intended: transferring directly rather than through some third party. You see, it's called the Internet for a reason. Every point should be able to talk to every other point. You shouldn't have to upload your file to some third party just to send it to another peer on the network. What makes solving this problem hard? The prevalence of firewalls and network address translation. But we've worked hard (and will continue to work hard) to incorporate into FilePhile advanced networking techniques that get around that problem. Part of solving the file transfer problem is solving it for everyone. That's why FilePhile is written in Java: because Java makes it easy to port FilePhile to dozens of OS versions and platforms. Another part of solving the file transfer problem is solving it in a way that preserves privacy. There is an increasing number of web-based solutions for file transfer, but these involve uploading your private data to some third party server where it can be read, indexed, and data-mined by whomever runs the server (or breaks into it). We think that giving someone a file should be as private and secure as handing them something face to face. Finally, solving the file transfer problem means not having size limits. FilePhile has, for all practical purposes, none. You could theoretically send terabytes (1tb = 1000gb) of data with it... though this would take a very long time with most net connections. File transfer sizes are limited only by your network connectivity, not by FilePhile. About The Author FilePhile is a personal project written and operated by Adam Ierymenko. If it gets really successful, it will probably be transformed into a company. I was inspired to write FilePhile by a rant on a social bookmarking and discussion site called Reddit complaining that there was no easy way to transfer large files from person to person. When I read that post I realized that I and pretty much everyone else I knew or worked with had struggled greatly with the same problem. I did a little searching and found that nobody had really solved it for non-technical users, at least not for a reasonable price. Frankly I'm amazed that nobody else has done this, though I must say that FilePhile was considerably more difficult to write than I initially thought it would be! The proceeds from FilePhile will go toward supporting me, supporting future development of FilePhile, and supporting further research, development, and entrepreneurial efforts in other areas. Most of these other areas are far more difficult and long-term. Check out my home page to get an idea of where my interests lie. Contact Information There currently aren't any offices or telephone support numbers associated with FilePhile. Part of why it's so inexpensive is that it doesn't really need any of that. But you can find active support on the forums, as I check them daily and other users might help as well. Before asking a question you can search the forums and read the FAQs there, as it may have already been answered. You can also get help via e-mail at support@filephile.net. |
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