Service Provider Profiles

There are many new providers pushing into the cloud storage market accessing open protocols that Cyberduck supports, OpenStack being the most relevant in the party. As we don’t want the connection dropdown list in the connection panel of Cyberduck to grow to a confusingly long list we tend not to add every single provider entering the market to the list. But to simplify the connection setup for customers, we publish so called connection profiles in collaboration with providers. These profiles contain specific connection settings for a hosting provider and a custom icon to make it easily recognizable in the list of bookmarks. To install, just double click a connection profile (.cyberduckprofile) (both on Mac & Windows supported) to register it with Cyberduck.

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Some profiles recently published include:

With the connection profile installed, only the user credentials must be provided to login with the hostname, port and protocol preconfigured.

Update Technical documentation has been posted to the wiki.

Spring Cleaning

In a spring cleaning effort we have removed support for Dropbox, Google Drive and Azure in Cyberduck for the upcoming 4.3 release. This allows us to focus on improving support for S3 and open cloud storage standards (speak Open Stack Swift) and the long supported FTP/SFTP and WebDAV protocols.

We reserve the option to reintroduce support for Azure (#6521) and Google Drive (#6976) when time allows and user demand is significant.

Update The latest snapshot builds for Mac & Windows reintroduce support for Azure Storage.

The cloud in numbers

Guest post from Qloudstat.

Cyberduck has for a long time supported access logging configuration for AWS S3  & CloudFront, Rackspace Cloudfiles CDN and recently Google Storage.

Qloudstat comes to the rescue when it comes to draw a conclusion from the thousands of log files written to your logging container every day plotting data in beautiful graphs.

Qloudstat is doing analytics for not only hits but other crucial metrics such as bandwidth and transfer costs. Data is plotted in an interactive chart, timeline, table or geographical map split up by different dimensions in a user friendly web interface. Gain insight of URIs and filetypes used. List referring sites and search keywords. Analyze HTTP user agents, operations and status codes. Compare CDN edge locations. Visualize requests on a country, region or city map. The analytics provided are not static but queries can be made for for any given daily time period with custom filters applied. Dynamic reports are rendered instantaneously not dependent on the time period chosen to be visualized.

Reports are updated continuously around the clock to give instant and always up to date statistics no matter of access volume or the number and size of log files. Qloudstat copes with the rapidly growing traffic using highly optimized scalable systems without any installation, administration, maintenance and infrastructure required by clients. During the 3 months private beta the service was already operational with customers facing up to 25 million hits per day.

Qloudstat integrates with the market leaders in cloud storage and content delivery networks (CDN) currently supporting AWS S3, AWS CloudFront, Google Cloud Storage and Rackspace CloudFiles (Akamai CDN).

Security is a pivotal requirement for cloud based applications. Qloudstat accesses log files in third party accounts using dedicated security credentials either using OAuth authentication for Google Cloud Storage or a user managed under the Identity and Access Management (IAM) for integration with Amazon Web Services. Log files are fetched using a TLS secured connection and the website to access reports is only available with HTTPS as well.

Pricing is based on raw log data volume with four different monthly subscription plans offered. Additionally a free plan allows to use the service at zero costs for sites with less than 100’000 hits per month. With data liberation in mind, export formats for further external processing are provided.

Give it a try, there is a zero cost plan to get you started.

Copy files between servers

The latest release available as of today as version 4.2 substantially improves support to copy files from server to server. Open two browser windows each with a connection to any server and drag files and folders between the browsers to copy files. A transfer is added to the Transfers window reading data from one server and uploading to the destination concurrently. This is much faster than in previous versions without creating any local temporary files but streaming directly from one remote server through the local host to the other server.

Copy from SFTP server to Rackspace Cloudfiles.