Thread: Best way to upload large files to server?

You could manually split the files - Here's what I use. Never tried it on 4gb files though.... HJ-Split - Utilities & Drivers - File & Disk Management - Downloads - CNET Australia

If it doesn't work, I can find out what "certain" people use for "certain" tasks...

EDIT: http://www.freebyte.com/hjsplit/#java its the jave version that I use on my mac. Don't remember if I got it from this website though so make sure your AV is up to date...

As for your upload speed - 1 meg sounds about right. Irish company are very very stingy with BB upload bandwidth and take the Asycnhronous part of ADSL very literally!

I'd post the drive to your hosting company. 100GB would take a few days and you risk data corruption (bit error rates and all that)

Courier or personally drop the disk to your host, and let them upload locally.

Trying to move that much content over the interweb will just give you grey hair!

Just asked bluehost - they won't accept a hard drive to be uploaded locally..."no other way" apparently, other than uploading it all manually...well this will be fun lol...

Thanks for the ideas...its a shame my upload speed is so slow...really want to get this stuff up this week

Ah that explains it - connecting out of Ireland is slowing the transfer down a lot more.

One option would be to give the content to your local friendly host, who could transfer the files over the 'backbone' so to speak - at least you'd get the max possible upload rates permitted by bluehost...

Yea...im starting to see the flaws of bluehost now, and websites that offer "unlimited hosting" and "unlimited bandwith"...seem to have a nice little fair usage policy in them aswell - making the phrase unlimited pointless...

Ah well...I'll see how this goes. Its only about 25 videos you see - and they're about 4-5 gigs each. I need to figure out a way to convert them down so they are a lot smaller in the first place. How do people manage to get 4.5 gig dvds down to 700mb - if I can figure this out, then I should cut the upload time of the stuff in half at least...

I still can't seem to figure it out

Originally Posted by musicformedia

Ah well...I'll see how this goes. Its only about 25 videos you see - and they're about 4-5 gigs each. I need to figure out a way to convert them down so they are a lot smaller in the first place. How do people manage to get 4.5 gig dvds down to 700mb - if I can figure this out, then I should cut the upload time of the stuff in half at least...

I still can't seem to figure it out

You could try converting them to avi using the xvid codec for video and mp3 for audio. I used to use DVD::Rip to do this, and there's also mencoder. I only run linux boxs here, so I'm not sure what the equivilent is on Windows or Mac.