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I'm looking for a good solution for cloud storage between roughly 10 users and two offices. Currently, the company is using a free dropbox account with a single account that is spread across every computer. This is concerning for a number of reasons, as the marketing staff can see admin folders, etc. I was looking at Dropbox for Business, but the per user price point is a hard sell for this non-profit company as they're used to paying $0 and are trying to keep the costs down. Also, Dropbox's paid business model provides more storage space than this company realistically requires. I doubt they'd ever require more than 10GB total. The key feature I'm looking for is the ability to set permissions per folder. Read-only privileges for some users, read/write for the boss, no access for others. I'm not sure how to go about linking accounts together while locking them to one business. I admit, I don't know much about cloud storage. If it were based solely in one office, I'd set up a small samba server with a cron job to Amazon S3 backup daily. Hoping you guys can shed some light here.
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# ? Dec 6, 2014 11:13 |
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# ? Mar 28, 2024 20:37 |
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Are they an actual registered "non profit"? If so, both Office 365 and Google Apps offer free subscriptions for non profits.
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# ? Dec 6, 2014 17:30 |
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Google drive has been good for locking down read access to folders for the company I work for (also a small business). I think it actually comes with the google business account so it's been pretty easy to work with.
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# ? Dec 7, 2014 07:27 |
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I'd try Alfresco as they work with non-profits and is really only a viable hosted solution for a small dataset. It may get you to try out the workflow features of a DMS which could help.
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# ? Dec 7, 2014 22:32 |
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Upon further investigation, the company is not actually considered a non-profit as they get paid by the government to provide a free service. I fiddled with Microsoft OneDrive today as it seemed to be the cheapest option, but it seemed to be overwhelmingly bloated. I'm not looking for web-based integration, or bundled Office applications. I just need a simple mapped drive on the windows machine that has folders of varying levels of access per user. Dropbox for business would be ideal if it weren't so costly. I'll take a look at Alfresco, thanks.
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# ? Dec 8, 2014 13:47 |
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# ? Mar 28, 2024 20:37 |
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OneDrive for Business is backed by SharePoint and therefore bad. Is Box too expensive?
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# ? Dec 8, 2014 22:11 |