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Is your 20$/mo server 1Gbit? At a fairly common 100Mbit these file transfers would be 1/10 the speed and also need to be downloaded. Even slower if you need to send to multiple people.

Running bit torrent let's peers share the data you upload and get the same net effect as this. But, that's not as far as I know a browser plugin.

PS: I don't think it's a big deal, but executed well it might be a valuable niche.

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It averages 400Mbit upload and 350Mbit download, not that it matters to me personally, as my employee can rarely upload faster than 4Mbit.

That said, their 1Gbit connection will probably average around the same speed if they have more than a few users uploading 50GB files during normal business hours.

Just to clarify we will fill a 1 Gbps pipe but our servers are provisioned to do much more than 1 Gbps. If many users are uploading at the same time we scale up beyond 1 Gbps that's not our network bandwidth maximum.

That's good to know. 1Gbit is our "max" but that works just fine for the company's "network share" If we ever were to start hitting our bandwidth caps, I can pay to increase those, but the speed is pretty much fixed without changing providers. If speed were to ever be an issue, I would probably look at a different service like yours. It would be a massive hit at your current pricing, though.

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