Email Branding

2Big2Send has just released an addition to the branding configuration; we now give you the ability to change the email that is sent to your recipients, this allows you to configure it to be customised to your branding.

This is available to our Business customers through the Branding configuration page.

You get to change the text version and HTML version, the text version is normally displayed on older email clients or systems that cannot display HTML; colours, images and text formatting will not be displayed in the text version.
The HTML version lets you totally customise the look of the email right down to the colours and location of elements. Through the use of keywords like {logo} you can get the logo that is set on your 2Big2Send account to be displayed in the email or {recipient} that will input your recipients email. You can include other images but you will have to host them yourself.

To make things a little easier we included an easy way to see what your emails will look like, just click the ‘Preview Text’ or ‘Preview Email’ button.

Watch out for more Branding related posts in the near future.

Organise your files

You can now move your files between folders. This has been a much requested piece of functionality and will allow you to organise your files within your folders.

Just select the files you want to move, click the move link pictured below and choose the folder you want to move them to.

You can of course move individual files by clicking the move icon on the file itself.

Choose where your data is stored

With other online data transfer providers your files are most likely stored on servers in the United States of America. For personal files this is probably OK with you, but if you are a company in Europe there are sometimes laws or guidelines as to where you can legally store your data; to this end we have given our Professional and Business customers the ability to choose where 2Big2Send stores their data.

Even if you do not have rules as to where your files are stored, by choosing to upload them to a data centre closer to where you are can significantly increase your upload speed; likewise if you wanted to ensure that your European customers got the fastest download speeds, store your files in our European data centre.

To choose where your data is stored simply visit your Account :: Storage page (https://www.2big2send.com/account/storage)

As we are using Amazon’s S3 Storage Service we have the option to store files in a data centre in Japan or Singapore; if you would like to see these as an option on your account please let us know.

Enhanced Delivery Download Notifications

We have introduced an enhancement to our download notification system. You can now choose to receive an email notification when each file is downloaded or when all the files have been successfully downloaded. You can also choose to select a different email address to send the notifications to, so you can send them to your_name+2big2sendnotifications@example.com for filtering.

To enable delivery notifications browse to Account :: Notifications (https://www.2big2send.com/account/notifications).

The next iteration of this system will allow you to send have your notifications delivered to your Boxcar enabled mobile device or computer.

Send Expiring Emails

You may have a situation where you want to send somebody a few files, but you only want them to be able to download them for a certain amount of time… We have just enabled the feature that will allow you to do this.

It is a simple advanced option you can choose when you send your files.

Attach files directly to messages

Calling all registered users…
We’ve finally introduced the ability to attach files directly to a message you send via 2Big2Send.

This will make sending your files much easier and ultimatly quicker because you can upload and send in one-fell-swoop!

FTP Replacement

FTP has been being used to transfer files to well over a decade. This ageing technology has unfortunately not kept up with the requirements of modern day business.

FTP required you to either share all files in a folder or go through the whole process of setting up a new user to only share one folder, then you had to send your recipient a username and password and probably explain to them how to access the files.

2Big2Send alleviates all these problems.
You simply upload your files to our servers and attach them to an email on our website; we send your recipient an email with a link to the files you uploaded and attached where they can simply click the file and download it.

What makes our service even better than FTP is that you can configure your account to send you an email when your recipient downloads a file you sent them so you will be in no doubt that they received the files you sent. 

2Big2Send has been Upgraded

It has been a long time in the works, but 2Big2Send has finally been upgraded!
This upgrade makes our service faster, easier to use and more reliable.

The initial response from users is great and we hope the rest of you are finding the same things.
We will have a steady stream of upgrades and new features in the months to come, some of these are:

• A hosted Dropbox for you to receive files.
• Customised emails.
• Notifications.
• Offsite Backup utilities.
• European hosting of files. 
• and many more…

Watch this space for these new features and more!

Do you know where your data is going?

We have seen in the media recently, here, here and here, that corporate data loss is everywhere; but it is mainly coming from the actions of your employees rather than outside hackers.

We are rolling an auditing suite into our next release which will give you the ability to track who sent files, who they were sent to and when and where they were downloaded.
Coupled with this will be an optional layer of security which will validate that the user you sent the file to is the only person who can download the file.

We’re still here!

It has been a very long time since we posted anything here, so now is as good a time as any!

What have we been up to?
 Don’t worry we have been hard at work behind the scenes answering your support tickets and keeping the current infrastructure up and running.
The rest of our time has been spent creating a more streamlined service for you all to you.

We started from scratch with this one and created our own framework and API to support it; implementing new features and changes will be a much easier thing so expect new features often!

Over the past couple of years we have seen the stability of the Flash uploader get really bad - and it is not coming from us; the reliability of Flash even when handling files of 50MB was really bad.
Browser crashes, uploads failing and slow transfers are what we have had to put up with…
Not anymore - we’ve been working on a Java uploader, the same technology Facebook has used, it’s much more reliable and will allow us to handle bigger and bigger files.

2Big2Send Infrastructure

We have used Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) since the beginning and have not had any reliability issues; so it made sense to move our servers into Amazon’s Cloud offering (EC2) as well.
We have noticed a considerable speed increase on our staging servers since the move. 

So when is this coming?

Very soon - we are in the final stages of getting it all tied together, so for now here is a screen shot of what is to come!