The PutPlace Blog

So we have been in public beta for a few weeks and I regularly get asked, What does PutPlace do?

We talk about three things in our tag line,

• Secure
• Organise
• Share

What I’d like to do is take you through some of the features around these areas in the next few blog posts.

This first one is about securing your content.

Now secure is pretty straightforward, we’ll take your files and put them somewhere safe. Safety for most people means "make me a copy and put it out of harms way".  Safety also touches on privacy (nobody else should be able to see these files) and access (except my family). 

But how do you know a copy is backed up, what about old versions, where are the other copies? PutPlace will backup every version of your file and because we track changes in realtime we backup in realtime as well. So each time you change that CV you get a new copy linked to the old copy on PutPlace.

lets see that in action. Here’s my CV directory, that I’ve added to PutPlace.

Now if  I edit the file CV Joe Drumgoole.doc  you will see it uploading.

Every time you save a copy of the file we will upload the changed file to the server.

Now you can go to the server see the file online.

See how all the revisions are stored. Nice. That will happen for every version of a file you create.

Things that we know we have to add,

• The ability to turn off versioning for a file and/or a directory
• The ability set a limit on the number of versions
• A way to look a the space overhead of the versions across a directory vs the cost of the latest revisions

We think this is a pretty good start to file security.