I’ve seen other hardware companies that host firmware downloads for their products on Google Drive and some Chinese cloud drive. I don’t think doing that, nor Dropbox link, is different really from hosting it on Mega.
Okay. It still doesn’t fill me with confidence.
Trust us, bro. We paid bottom dollar for this software.
At least mega.co.nz is a file sharing name I recognise.
My keyboard's drivers are hosted on "egnyte.com"
“ It is also worth noting that I contacted Procolored support four times over the course of my testing, for help with figuring out the software and settings. Every single time, the agent requested multiple times that I allow them to connect remotely to my computer”
lol are procolored just a NK hacker unit or something ffs
There's nothing wrong with Mega
It implies that the company does not give a shit when they don’t even use their own web server.
The worst part is that setting up static web content hosting with something like an Azure blob store, or just a NGINX server somewhere is hilariously trivial.
This is an afternoon's effort for the junior intern, but was "too hard" for these people.
That costs money to maintain, even if it's just a few bucks a month. I've seen plenty of Chinese companies using mega/gdrive/etc just because it's free. I used to think it was just cheapness, but depending on the company it can be a huge hassle to set up recurring small bill items. At my current company for example, it's much easier to pay $5-10k once than pay $5/mo.
Nope azure blob storage hosting can be completely free
With Google Drive specifically, scale becomes an issue though. Once too many people download a given shared file, it gets flagged for possibly being a piracy operation. Not sure about MEGA, but they also have some limits (although for normal drivers this shouldn't be an issue).
CDN? Cloud? What’s the obsession with running your own web server?
If you distribute SHA256 or similar hashes through a secure mechanism, it seems OK to me.
Ah yes, it's totally secure for those 5 users who check the hash of the files they download.