Quote from Forum Archives on May 23, 2016, 8:17 am

Posted by: n2fisher <n2fisher@...>

I run a site, http://lcmssermons.com, for pastors to post their sermons online.

I've fought many times attempting to make uploading of files easy and bulletproof.  Pastors as I'm sure we all know aren't the most technically proficient as a rule and I have a few that post regularly that have problems getting FTP working or using my (admittedly simplistic; written years ago) upload utility.

Someone posted a message on here the other day about pCloud .. I had never heard of that service previously, and was wondering if people here thought it was reliable and would be around long-term.  We are talking storing years of sermon audios, so if it's going to go out of business in the near term that's not a really good solution.

I just implemented an easier upload utility for another project, and I'm debating between trying to implement it for this site, or recommending that my lesser proficient pastors make use of external storage somewhere.  Also weighing on my mind is the fact that I'm now storing for several gig of MP3 files for pastors around the country, and it's just getting larger as technology improves so that they are recording better quality (i.e. larger) sound files.

All they would need to provide to the sermon editor on my site is a link to where the MP3 file is stored, so I suppose it could be hosted on dropbox, box, pcloud, or any other site storage.  Obviously free is better given perpetual lack of funds for technology in the church.

I'd basically just like some thoughts on the matter.

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