Online file storage system

As computers become an increasing part of our lives at work, at home, and even while traveling, the growth of Internet has brought about revolution to our daily lives with sophisticated online applications that provide us with tremendous ease of communication. Internet offers a number of services ranging from mail server, list server to web-based workgroup tool. With the increasing need to transfer and store digital data, web-based file storage options has become popularize among web communities. A variety format of storage opportunities is available over the net, from free web page servers to online photo galleries and online personal storage space. These storage options generally allow the storage and retrieval of data online. While most of these sites continue to focus on offering free web site and homepages, we have developed an online virtual space file storage system. This system is particularly customized to university and college communities. The file storage system helps people from different domains (e.g. students and lecturers) to manage, access, share and backup their files online, easily, efficiently and reliably. This paper describes some of the features implemented in this system as a solution to juggling floppies, storage limitation and unreliable copies of data.