I feel the author’s pain - Aspera is a clunky 90s styled Ruby on Rails app that is about the most cloud unfriendly piece of software I’ve encountered, I’d love an alternative.
I honestly don’t care about about their proprietary UDP protocol, it’s nothing special, just another way to copy bits onto a wire. Dime a dozen.
The true value of Aspera is they provide an integrated browser plug-in that lets the technically challenged reliably upload large files. If the transfer is interrupted or either side changes addresses it deals with it gracefully. It’s also a bridge to AWS S3.
I spent some time looking for a replacement and while there are numerous download managers that facilitate people downloading large files, I couldn’t find any upload managers with the same level of integration and polish.
About the closet thing I could find is Cyberduck, but it’s not integrated with the web browser, not as easy for technically challenged people to use, and there is no support (community support but seems really hit and miss). However it does make good use of Amazon’s multiple upload api and will happily fill whatever wire it’s connected to.
Torrent software has largely the same pros and cons Cyberduck does.
I honestly don’t care about about their proprietary UDP protocol, it’s nothing special, just another way to copy bits onto a wire. Dime a dozen.
The true value of Aspera is they provide an integrated browser plug-in that lets the technically challenged reliably upload large files. If the transfer is interrupted or either side changes addresses it deals with it gracefully. It’s also a bridge to AWS S3.
I spent some time looking for a replacement and while there are numerous download managers that facilitate people downloading large files, I couldn’t find any upload managers with the same level of integration and polish.
About the closet thing I could find is Cyberduck, but it’s not integrated with the web browser, not as easy for technically challenged people to use, and there is no support (community support but seems really hit and miss). However it does make good use of Amazon’s multiple upload api and will happily fill whatever wire it’s connected to.
Torrent software has largely the same pros and cons Cyberduck does.