Strongspace Beta Begins!

I’m pleased to announce that we’ve begun “friends and family” Beta testing of Strongspace, our secure file storage and file sharing plan. If everything stays on schedule, our first focused plan, our first public Rails application and our first major milestone on the road to TextPanel will be released on August 1.

A picture tells a thousand words, so before I go into some details about what Strongspace is, let’s have a little look.

So what is it?

Strongspace is a secure place to gather, store, back-up and share any type of file with co-workers, friends and family. You can upload, download and manage your files over SFTP or with a web browser over SSL.

It also integrates seamlessly with Basecamp for storing project related files, and with plans starting from just $8/month for 1GiB of space, we think almost everyone will find it useful.

·:· Posted 27 July 2005, 15:01 by Justin French to TextPanel  |  

  1. Wow, sounds like a great service. Hopefully there are ways to buy mo’ bandwidth, to use with photoblogs, for example. Or is that beyond the intended usage?

    — Jordi S. Bunster    27 July 2005, 15:08    #
  2. All files are password protected on Strongspace, so it’s not ideal for general access, but rest assured, we’ve got some other tricks up our sleeve.

    — Justin French    27 July 2005, 15:22    #
  3. “friends and family”

    Does that include lifetime TextDrive patrons? ;)

    — Kiran Max Weber    27 July 2005, 16:48    #
  4. Or perhaps VC1 and VC2 people…?

    — Reinier    27 July 2005, 18:02    #
  5. C2 people

    That’s what I meant. C1 too of course. Thanks Reinier!

    — Kiran Max Weber    27 July 2005, 18:14    #
  6. So, for Basecamp integration, does ‘seamless’ mean that there are security credentials passed along from Stongspace to Bcamp? Or do people need to enter yet another password to access files (in which case, we’re not better off than regular hosted space + htaccess)

    — Jess McMullin    27 July 2005, 20:16    #
  7. Access to your files goes through the same login screen as normal login, which means you can just check the box “remember me”.

    That’s about all we can do at the moment, but we’ll see about improving on that in the future.

    — Marten Veldthuis    27 July 2005, 21:52    #
  8. Yeah, yeah, where are these invites?! Double VC-er here…

    — Kevan    28 July 2005, 19:13    #
  9. (duh – read the forum, read the forum…)

    — Kevan    28 July 2005, 19:26    #