RE: Upload form

From: JDR (webdev_at_trisystemsinc.com)
Date: 07/13/04 

Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 22:04:01 -0700

Barb,

As Thomas mentioned in his first reply, as long as they will support it, you would be fine and it is important to note his recommendation on file size. Audio files can get "Large" very fast, so before making any moves, you may want to determine how large your audio files will be.

As a rough estimate 1 minute of MP3 will be approx. 1 MB, so if your audio files are going to be several minutes or longer, you may need to look at other solutions or options.

All in all, I usually always recommend that if you are using FrontPage, hosting on a Windows server is a more user-friendly choice.

In my experience, I have seen more stable server extensions running on a Windows Server, than I have with Unix/Apache. 

-- 
*****************
JDR
"CyberCafe" wrote:
> I wrote on July 7 asking for help in creating a form that would allow my
> customers to upload their audio dictation files to some of the free
> space on my remote web site (copy of my original message and response
> are below).   My host uses a UNIX server.  Would it be better if I
> transfer my site to a Windows server in order to get the upload form to
> work???  HostSave is my current host (UNIX server) and I would transfer
> it to their affiliate, WinSave (Windows server).
> 
> Another question:  Are there any advantages of using a Windows server as
> far as using FrontPage features over other types of servers (assuming
> both have similiar extensions)??
> 
> Barb
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Subject:
>              Re: Need form help please.
>         Date:
>              Wed, 7 Jul 2004 19:39:59 -0400
>        From:
>              "Thomas A. Rowe" <tarowe@mvps.org>
>  Organization:
>              Microsoft FrontPage MVP
>  Newsgroups:
>              microsoft.public.frontpage.client
>   References:
>              1
> 
> If your host allows, you can use the FP Upload component, however it is
> limited to
> files of less
> than 1 MB in size. The files would be uploaded to a folder within your
> web site
> from which you would
> have to then download them to your HD.
> 
> As far as receiving email from your web site via form, unless you are
> already
> doing this, may not
> work as some host only allow email from a web site to be sent to an
> email address
> within the web
> site's domain, i.e., yourname@yourdomain.com. Also some email services
> will not
> accept email from a
> web site.
> 
> You should check with your host to see what option they have available
> to allow
> your site visitors
> to upload files, as server-side scripting solution may be a better
> approach then
> using the FP Upload
> component.
> 
> --
> ==============================================
> Thomas A. Rowe (Microsoft MVP - FrontPage)
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> 
> "CyberCafe" <pkbk@badger.tds.net> wrote in message
> news:40EC80BA.55D2800D@badger.tds.net...
> > I'm using FrontPage 2002, remote hosting service with FP 2002
> extensions
> > installed, Windows XP Pro.
> >
> > Can someone tell me where I can find a detailed tutorial on how to
> > create a form that will let my customers upload audio dictation files
> to
> > my remote web site plus notify me via e-mail when a customer has
> > uploaded an audio file.  That e-mail would need to tell me the name of
> 
> > the customer, their e-mail address, and file name (file name is
> > optional).
> >
> > More information about (don't know if this makes any difference):  My
> > e-mail and hosting accounts are from different unrelated companies.
> My
> > current e-mail box size is 55 MB.  There is over 900 MB free space
> with
> > my host service.  My web host does not provide ftp service.
> >
> > Why I want to do this.  Some of my customers' e-mail accounts won't
> let
> > them send file attachments that are over a certain size or they travel
> 
> > and can't connect to their primary e-mail account.  Some customers
> don't
> > want to use WinZip 8 or other software that would break down those
> large
> > audio files into manageable e-mail size segments.
> >
> > A detailed tutorial on how I can do this or even optional ideas would
> be
> > appreciated.  Remember, I'm not real swift when it comes to brain
> power.
> >
> > Thanks!!!.
> >
> > Barb
> >
> >
> 
> 
> 
> 
>

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