Storage Space Increase for All Customers

After careful consideration, we at EmailLargeFile.net decided to increase available storage space for file sharing needs for all our customers.

All Personal accounts now get 20GB of maximum storage space.
All Professional accounts get 40GB of storage.

This space increase affects all new and existing subscribers.

Existing subscribers: you can see the available storage space once you log in to your account:

If you need even more space, or need to bump other limits, contact us. It is more than likely we can adjust the features available to your plan for a small fee.

Of course, if you need a lot of storage space, or custom file management solution, or you want to store your files or documents on an existing server at your office, we can set up that solution for you as well.

How to Enable Dropbox Notifications

June 2020 Update: the pictures on this article are outdated as the Service has been completely redesigned in 2020.

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Our customers sometime ask us how to make EmailLargeFile notify them when someone uploads a new file to their dropbox.

Here is how you can do it.

First, log in to your account.

Next, in the list of Packages, locate the Dropbox package. If you don't see it, you may need to activate or create it. The activation process is described in this article.

When you see the Dropbox in the list, click on it to edit. You will be taken to the package edit form.
On that form, click on the Rules button, as displayed on the screenshot below. This is similar to adjusting package rules, however the Dropbox package only supports one rule, which is 'new upload'.

Once you see the Package rules window, type the rule description, and click the Add Rule button:

Note that some of the options are grayed out. That means their value cannot be changed in that mode.
After you see the new rule in the list, you are done!

At this point, if the rule is enabled, the notification email message will be sent to you each time someone uploads a batch of files to your dropbox.

You can turn off/on the dropbox notifications at any time using the Pause icon in the Rules list.

EmailLargeFile customers get storage increase

June 2020 Update: this article is outdated as the Service has been completely redesigned in 2020.

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EmailLargeFile.net is primarily a file transfer solution. We provide intelligent file delivery service and offer our customers ample storage for their files and data.

Why storage is important? Before a file can be submitted via Emaillargefile file transfer, it has to be uploaded and stored on our servers. We keep our customers' files until they delete them, unlike some of our competitors such as Mailbigfile which costs twice as much per month, but keeps files only for 28 days. Even so, many of our customers don't use much of the file storage space offered to them. For example, most of our professional accounts don't normally store 25 GB of files within their allocated space.

We carefully review the list of available options on a regular basis, but there are some of the upgrades that we are glad to offer to our clients right away. Today, we are increasing the available storage for all our new and existing Personal accounts from 5Gb to 7Gb. This should help our clients store and transfer more data, and will make us even more competitive on the market.

To review and compare the list of available options, see the subscription plans comparison chart here.

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Alternative DNS hosting and Godaddy downtime

We, as many other businesses, are trying to keep our costs down to stay competitive on the market. We understand the importance of data storage reliability and data consistency. That's why we don't outsource server support, we maintain our datacenter and servers by our own staff and using our own resources.

Unfortunately, our attempt to cut costs on letting Godaddy take responsibility of our DNS (domain naming system) did not work as well.

As many of you probably read on CNN and other news web sites yesterday, Godaddy has been brought down by a massive denial of service attack. While we can certainly feel for Godaddy and their network engineers that had a hard day yesterday, we cannot afford being taken down during the busiest work hours.

We do consider our service unique and special. Understanding that we are not alone in the company of millions other web sites, does not make us feel comfortable at all. Our dedication goes to our customers at any cost, and we will not sit quietly waiting for another downfall of Godaddy or any other third party provider for that matter.

We are currently researching how Godaddy managed or rather didn't manage to hold the attack with their huge infrastructure and astronomical budgets. Of course it is almost impossible to tell exactly what happened, and it's pretty clear that Godaddy will never disclose any real details on that. Our preliminary conclusion is that they did not have enough redundancy at the network hardware level. Let their engineers do the work and rebuild what was not done properly in the first place.

Our next step is to research how we can prevent such a problem in the future. The answer seems to be simple. Stay independent, listen, learn, and be proactive. We are currently working on moving away the DNS and some of our domains to a different provider.


Update: Godaddy confirmed that there was no attack, there was an internal network problem. Most if not all owners of sites who were hosting with Godaddy at the time have received some compensation in the form of a month credit. Domain owners whose DNS was managed by Godaddy and which was broken for half a day did not receive anything.

How to personalize emails with custom logo and branding

June 2020 Update: the pictures on this article are outdated as the Service has been completely redesigned in 2020.

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Here is how to customize email messages sent by our service with your company logo and a custom footer in HTML format.

First, login to Emaillargefile.Net. Next, open your Account settings page.

Scroll down until you see the Custom Branding option:

Click the checkbox to start personalizing your account.

For custom branding, you can upload a custom PNG or JPG or GIF logo file. You can also add a custom text to the message footer which will also appear on file download page and the drop box page.

The footer text supports HTML notation, so you can include remote site links and other references.
Click Update Branding when you are done. You will see the logo preview and an option to remove the uploaded image.

You don't have to always upload a logo and change the footer text at the same time. Updating one option is perfectly fine.

If you disable custom branding by un-checking the "Enable Branding" box, your saved personalization data will not be shown to your recipients anymore, but it will not be deleted from our database. You can always re-enable the branding again without re-uploading your logo.
To force delete the logo and the footer data, you must empty the footer text and check the Clear image box.

Now, provided that you have uploaded the logo and changed the footer text, here is how they will look in each of the email message sent to your recipients:

You may notice the custom logo in the upper part of the email message, and the footer text appears right below the horizontal divider.

The package download page as well as the dropbox page will also display your custom branding:

I specifically highlighted the custom branding components on this screenshot with a yellow marker for better visibility. The actual screen will not have the yellow marker lines.

Currently, ALL subscription customers (including Personal plan) get the branding at no additional charge. They can now personalize their email messages with custom logos and custom text including HTML tags.

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EmailLargeFile vs "free" file sharing services

There are a few decent free, or nearly-free, file sharing services available these days. One of the most known is SkyDrive, provided by Microsoft.

This product is quite convenient to use, however it provides little control on who can access your files. After downloading the software you essentially open the door from your computer to the outside world.
Once you install the SkyDrive on your laptop, you will never know where your files are going once the link has been published. And you will never know how safe your peer connection is or whether the transmission is encrypted.

Same is true for Google file sharing service, which is called Google Drive (duh). This time, however, your file content may also get parsed for keywords and searched via the Google docs service.

What is great for friends and family, may not be always good for business files or documents.

If you are concerned about the security of your data and need a complete control over file distribution, we suggest you to take a look at our managed file sharing service.
Emaillargefile.Net is here to help.

First, it does not download or install additional software to your machine. This means, there are no open doors.

Second, with its precise email submission system, it can send messages to the exact people you select from your address book, and you always know if the message has been sent and if they received the files.

When people download the file, you either get a text message on your cell phone or an email message on you computer, this is like a digital return receipt, if you will. You can always turn off notifications or change the notification method.

Next, you can see and download the detailed reports about who, when, and where opened your packages and downloaded your files.

Even more, all file transfers only go via the encrypted HTTPS protocol, and along with two (or more if needed) password protection layers, this makes EmailLargeFile.Net compliant with HIPAA and Sarbanes-Oxley.

And last, but not least, you can make your file only available to a certain geographic or organizational area. We track geolocation information on each click and download, so you can set custom rules on files and packages if you want them to be accessible by a very limited or a very broad area of recipients.

Check out and compare all the features here. And yes, we are currently running pricing specials, so sign up while they are still available.

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The quickest and easiest way to send large files

June 2020 Update: some pictures in this article are outdated as the Service has been completely redesigned in 2020.

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If you need to transfer a large file to someone, don't send it as an e-mail attachment. EmailLargeFile.Net can help you transfer files as big as 2GB, all via browser.

You can send a file in 3 steps.

1. Click 'New Package'.
Type the package Title and an optional description.

Package is what combines multiple files into one envelope when you send it. This is what helps your recipients figure out what the file is about, and allows them to download multiple files in one ZIP.

2. Click Next, then Select and upload files.

You can select and upload multiple files in one batch. The applet will tell you their file sizes and will show you the upload progress.

3. Next, click the Package Link shortcut:

4. The file link is ready.

You may copy the link to a new e-mail message, or click 'Create message' to launch e-mail client:

At this point you are done.

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When your recipient clicks the link to download the files, they will see a file download page similar to this:

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You need to register before you can use EmailLargeFile.Net. Registration is quick and easy:
https://emaillargefile.net/signup