What service do you use to distribute software?

Question

I work for a medium-sized company, and I have been tasked with finding a new way to electronically distribute our software. We don’t have a super fast connection to distribute it ourselves, so this should be a solution that we can download and send links to customers. Customers will not buy our software from our website, as we already carry out most of our sales from direct sales and sales partners. Since I joined the company, we have grown from distributions with distributions to CDs to sizes of DVD distributions. We released a new version and found that YouSendIT Service is inconvenient, and 99% of our customers receive a link to download software. If necessary, we send print media. Is there a service besides yousendit that allows you to upload / download an unlimited file size. I heard about drop.io and it looks like yousendit. If you could direct me towards an electronic software distribution system that will be hosted by a third party, you will be appreciated.

thanks

Mike

Answer 1

You should look at Content Delivery Networks such as Amazon CloudFront .

Answer 2

You might want to review how you do it.

If the software is open source, you should use sourceforge . Otherwise, you just need to get a cheap hosting plan with high transmission bandwidth.

For example, Godaddy has an unlimited account (unlimited transfer, unlimited space) for about $ 14.95 per month.

You point the subdomain, i.e. download.rivageek.com, to this server. This gives your users the confidence that they are downloading your application.

If they need to go to some third-party site loaded with advertising, they may think twice about giving you money. If you lose only one customer, he pays for himself (if you incur a fee of more than 14.95).

The imprint on many of the third-party sites means that they own everything that you download.

Answer 3

If you want something that allows (simplified) protection of one-time downloads, I have used filehosting.org in the past, They give you a hash link to the software when it is downloaded, which you can then email to anyone who wants to download file. If you want, you can set it to delete the file after one download.

Answer 4

In response to using your own domain to download, you can configure both Amazon S3 and CloudFront to use their own domain name. Here are the instructions for the S3 - very straightforward:

http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AmazonS3/latest/index.html?VirtualHosting.html

If you send an e-mail a direct link to your distribution file (zip, etc.), I would say that you can use one of these services - they are very economical, reliable and easy to configure.