Best cloud storage for professional use with clients?

Factual Questions
1

I have to take the plunge and set up some cloud storage to move things like video files to and from clients. I’ve mucked a little with DropBox from both sides and it seemed to be hard to set up with individual “pockets.”

Which cloud-based storage option is:
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[li]free to cheap for reasonable storage space (50GB?)[/li][li]suited to professional use (as opposed to family/grandma/phone users)[/li][li]allows some form of individual access assignment for clients[/li][li]allows passwording of individual files or folders[/li][li]allows easy uploading by almost any web user[/li][li]generally allows secure transfers for multiple parties?[/li][/ul]

2

DropBox is the best option by far. I don’t know what you mean by “individual pockets”. You have your client sign up for a DropBox account, and you can then choose to share individual folders in your account with that client. Do you need finer-grained access control than this?

3

Note that the client does not need to pay anything for their account in this case. You are paying for the storage.

4

No, that will do it. I remember fussing with this (in a hurry, a while back) and not being able to do what I wanted, but it was an unfair trial.

Really… fifty cloud storage offerings and DB is best?

5

If security is any concern, I would recommend spideroak.

6

You might take a look at cubby – it is based on “individual pockets”.

7

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[li]free to cheap for reasonable storage space (50GB?)[/li][li]suited to professional use (as opposed to family/grandma/phone users)[/ul][/li][/QUOTE]

Those tend to be mutually exclusive demands. Quickbase is designed for professional use and is pretty good, but not cheap.