Setting your machine up as a web-server has serious security implications. You're connecting your machine 'directly' to the Internet. At the moment, it's hidden behind the router. Although your PC might have an IP of x.x.x.x, this is actually the router, so it's hard for hackers to get onto your actual PC. Once you connect your PC to the Internet though, hackers have a 'pipe' into it. If they can break into banks, companies like LinkedIn (just look at all the data breaches on haveibeenpwned.com) then your PC is a honeypot just waiting to be cracked open.
Secondly, most people have a dynamic IP address. This means, if you reboot your router, you're going to have a different IP address. If you give your mate Ted an IP of 81.45.69.20 to connect to you, he won't be able to anymore. You can connect these to a dynamic DNS server to use a temporary domain name (eg, chris.connecttome.com), but that's more software you have to run on your machine.
If you just want to share large files (rather than emailing them) you can use a transfer service like wetransfer.com for files up to 2 GB.
Unsure about other countries, but in the UK, normal Internet upload speeds can be a lot slower than download speeds. This means while you might have '50 MB broadband!!!111', it might only be 1 MB upload and 50 MB download, so transferring files could take longer than you thought. Additionally, if this upload bandwidth gets swamped (eg, four people try and download a large file at the same time) it will significantly impact your download speeds and normal browsing, as you will be restricted sending webpage requests, etc - these all use the same upload bandwidth.

All in all, think carefully before installing this software. If you install it and don't use it, your PC is still connected directly to the Internet.

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Chris, Thanks for that info.

I am happy to admit that my knowledge of such issues is not that great so I shall not, as a consequence, be using this service.

Chris, Thanks for that info. I am happy to admit that my knowledge of such issues is not that great so I shall not, as a consequence, be using this service.
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Terry I  –  4 years ago  –  Vond je deze reactie nuttig? ja | nee (+39)

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Chris, I do believe you can set the connection to a port, say 3287, so only traffic to that port is sent to your IP/port can reach your PC. secondly it makes sense to assign access to that section a user name and password, like "The_Magnificent_Mr_Rapinski" and the password to "3qually_as_c0mplex_as_w@x-0n_w@x0ff383940"

In addition routers block port scans by default so it would be more secure as you are not a public server with a published IP.

In appreciation of your comments, yes, this is not something you can click and play.

That being stipulated, If you can't manage router ports this is not for you. You need to know something of networking, routers, IP and ports. It is best to give your device a static Lan IP, and set your configuration properly.

If you are unfamiliar with these things, you are correct, a great deal of caution is needed, if you do this can likely be used as a private 'dropbox'.

I intend to download it and test. Thanks for your comment Chris.

Chris, I do believe you can set the connection to a port, say 3287, so only traffic to that port is sent to your IP/port can reach your PC. secondly it makes sense to assign access to that section a user name and password, like "The_Magnificent_Mr_Rapinski" and the password to "3qually_as_c0mplex_as_w@x-0n_w@x0ff383940" In addition routers block port scans by default so it would be more secure as you are not a public server with a published IP. In appreciation of your comments, yes, this is not something you can click and play. That being stipulated, If you can't manage router ports this is not for you. You need to know something of networking, routers, IP and ports. It is best to give your device a static Lan IP, and set your configuration properly. If you are unfamiliar with these things, you are correct, a great deal of caution is needed, if you do this can likely be used as a private 'dropbox'. I intend to download it and test. Thanks for your comment Chris.
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Spam Sorenson  –  4 years ago  –  Vond je deze reactie nuttig? ja | nee (+32)

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Terry I, If you don't need to share files (large files) frequently with others, then no, this software is of no use. Unfortunately, due to its nature, its not software that you can install 'just in case' as it (potentially) opens your machine up to be a webserver.
Normal webserver software (apache, as a big named brand) is updated frequently to account for security issues found. Their website doesn't show an update history, so its not clear how frequently this is updated.

Terry I, If you don't need to share files (large files) frequently with others, then no, this software is of no use. Unfortunately, due to its nature, its not software that you can install 'just in case' as it (potentially) opens your machine up to be a webserver. Normal webserver software (apache, as a big named brand) is updated frequently to account for security issues found. Their website doesn't show an update history, so its not clear how frequently this is updated.
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Chris  –  4 years ago  –  Vond je deze reactie nuttig? ja | nee (+11)

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