Hightail Reviews

Hightail Hosting Reviews

File Sharing

Key features 2GB Storage space 7 Days File expiration 100MB File size send limit Password protection Unlimited Recipient limit

Great reasons to choose Hightail Watn2Host users rate hightail as 4.5 out of 5 – Outstanding.

Hightail was founded as YouSendIt Inc. in 2004 by three cofounders: Ranjith Kumaram, Amir Shaikh and Khalid Shaikh. In its early years, Amir pursued advertising revenues, Jimmy Vienneau managed business development, Francis Wu created the graphic design including the logo, while Kumaran focused on the user experience and Khalid did technical work. By May 2004, the company had 300,000 users and was growing 30 percent each month. That September, Cambrian Ventures invested $250,000. At first, YouSendIt was mainly used to send large files, such as photos or audio files, which were too large for the file-size limits set by email providers at the time.

Hightail, formerly YouSendIt, is a cloud service that lets users send, receive, digitally sign and synchronize files. YouSendIt.com and YouSendIt Inc. were founded in 2004; the company renamed itself Hightail in 2013.

The company's early focus was on helping users send files that were too large for email; it started adding features and plug-ins for businesses in 2007. The service grew quickly, and the firm raised $49 million in funding between 2005 and 2010. The service can now be used via the web, a desktop client, mobile devices, or from within business applications with a Hightail plugin.

In May 2015, the company launched Hightail Spaces, designed to encourage creative professionals from conception of an idea to delivery.

Hightail Plans

1. Select the plan for you

Lite For sharing smaller files	Pro For sharing and tracking  larger files	Teams Sharing and tracking large  files for the whole company
Free	$12.00/month	Custom Pricing
➱ Upload files up to 100MB ➱ 2GB storage	➱ Upload files up to 25GB ➱ Unlimited storage ➱ Recipient tracking ➱ Notifications	➱ Upload files up to 100GB ➱ Unlimited storage ➱ Recipient tracking ➱ Notifications

Hightail Features

All Features

● 100GB File size send limit ● Unlimited Recipient limit ● Live chat support ● Phone support ● Dedicated customer support team ● Sync from Dropbox ● Sync from Google Drive ● Sync from Microsoft OneDrive ● Adobe Photoshop Plugin ● Adobe Illustrator Plugin ● Outlook Plugin ● Advanced approval routing ● Personal & Team dashboards

● Unlimited Storage space ● Password protection ● Enterprise grade security ● Version control ● Real-time discussions ● To-dos & task management ● OpenText Core ● Delivery notifications ● Send tracking ● Custom branding ● Organization ● Archiving ● Admin reports

Hightail Security

Hightail’s security is nothing to really write home about, but it meets the industry standards and exceeds some more lax applications out there. For transit, data is encrypted end-to-end with 128-bit AES encryption.

When sitting on their servers, files have a stronger 256-bit AES encryption. Hightail also uses firewalls and virus scanners to scan for threats.

At this point, there is no option for zero-knowledge encryption, which is a little troubling with business data, but given the collaborative features, it would’ve probably been nearly impossible to implement.

There is also a remote wipe feature to destroy files on any device connected to the account. This is useful for ex-employees or for lost or stolen devices.

Pros & Cons Hightail

Pros

◉ They provide decent collaboration tools in the web interface.

◉ e-signature feature is nice for certain documents.

◉ File sharing and access to non-users are nice.

Cons

◉ Some useful project management tools are missing.

◉ They are missing full Office integration.

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