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How do you like to transfer large files between friends across the internet? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by ReducedArc@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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On occasion I find myself needing to send a file at least a few gigabytes in size to a friend across our slow ISPs but haven't found a satisfying solution. I usually end up creating a private torrent with the announce address of my own IP. Even though it's slow - it basically never reaches my max upload speed for some reason, it is at least resilient if there are ever any network glitches.

Does anyone else face this same challenge?

EDIT: Thank you for the awesome suggestions! I have some homework to do on these

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[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Super easy. Spin up an OpenVPN server, forwarding the right ports to your server. Now spin up an Apache server with the folder your file’s in as server root. Send the client config for your VPN to your friend, along with the local address of your HTTP server. Now they can install the OpenVPN client on their PC and download the file from your HTTP server. Once you’re done, tear down all your servers, and don’t forget to unforward the ports. Couldn’t be easier.

[–] admin@lemmy.haley.io 17 points 1 year ago

I have non-ironically gotten responses like this

[–] Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Okay can you explain why thats a sarcastic answer? Is one of those first three steps way harder than I think it is?

[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 year ago

Cause that’s not simple or easy at all. It takes a fair bit of knowledge to set up all of these things.

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

openvpn and apache can be very time consuming to set up if you do it for the first time