Many Pieces At Once
Files break into chunks that move in parallel, and many files move at the same time. A big transfer uses the whole pipe instead of trickling through one stream.
Move Huge Files Fast, Without An Aspera Bill
Files.com moves files at maximum speed across any distance — chunked, parallel, resumable transfers that finish instead of failing at 95% — with no proprietary acceleration appliance and no per-seat licensing. Single files up to 5 TB, billions of transfers a year, and a success rate above 99.99%. You get the speed you’d buy Aspera or Signiant for, built right into the platform.
Large Transfers That Actually Finish
Legacy tools were built when "large" meant gigabytes. The result is the transfer that crawls for hours and dies at 95%, the multi-terabyte move that needs babysitting overnight, and the proprietary acceleration appliance with a license bill to match. Moving real volume shouldn’t be a project every time.
Files.com is built to move petabytes over ordinary internet connections. Files break into chunks that move in parallel, many files move at once, transfers resume from where they stopped, and every byte is checked on arrival. Across billions of files a year, more than 99.99% of transfers finish successfully. The big move stops being a Tuesday-night project and becomes just another Tuesday.
“We tested about five different cloud FTPs, and Files.com had much faster download and upload speeds.”
Paolo DiBenedetto, Director of OperationsHydrian
What’s Possible With Files.com
This simulator shows representative performance of real sync workloads moved using the Files.com Desktop or CLI apps. Yes, you can really achieve the speeds demonstrated here.
3 transfers in flight
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Files.comAmazon S3Nightly render exportTransferring
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On-Prem NASFiles.comPartner inbound batchTransferring
0 KB / 880.0 GB0 / 12,904 files0.0%
Amazon S3Azure BlobDR replicationTransferring
0 KB / 6.10 TB0 / 1,204,880 files0.0%
How Files.com Moves Files This Fast
The transfer engine runs the same way across the web app, the SFTP server, the API, and the desktop and on-prem apps — built for volume, distance, and unreliable networks.
Picks Up Where It Stopped
A dropped connection doesn’t send you back to zero. Transfers resume from the point they stopped and retry through network hiccups on their own — so the multi-terabyte move finishes instead of failing at 95%.
Checked End To End
Every transfer runs an integrity check, so what arrives is exactly what you sent. Across billions of files a year, Files.com finishes more than 99.99% of transfers successfully.
Close To Wherever You Are
Acceleration servers run across North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific, and connections route to the closest available pool — so distance is far less of a tax on speed.
Two Ways To Go Fast
Without Installing Anything
The web uploader, the SFTP and FTP server, and the API are heavily optimized to run fast over standard protocols with standard clients. The drag-and-drop web upload alone is among the fastest anywhere — and it works for someone who installs nothing at all.
When You Want Absolute Maximum Speed
Pair the Files.com Agent with the Desktop App and turn on Turbo Transfer mode. The Agent uses custom UDP-based transport over a 100 Gbit network to push the highest throughput Files.com offers — benchmarked 2–5× faster than traditional SFTP and FTP clients.
The Speed You’d Buy Aspera For, Without The Appliance
Aspera and Signiant sell proprietary UDP acceleration as an appliance with per-seat licensing and lock-in. Files.com beats those tools on speed over standard protocols, using parallel streams, chunking, and smart retry and resume. It has proven it against the toughest bar in the market: the largest media companies moving enormous volumes of video every day.
And when a workload specifically wants UDP — long-haul intercontinental moves, multi-terabyte single files, lossy networks — Files.com ships its own custom UDP-based acceleration in the Agent. So UDP is an option you can have, not a requirement you pay for. The same engine is available programmatically through the official SDKs and CLI for Go, Java, Node, .NET, PHP, Python, and Ruby.
Transfer Speed Questions
What teams ask before they move heavy file volume onto Files.com instead of a proprietary acceleration appliance.
A single file can be up to 5 TB and transfers end to end with no manual chunking on your side — a ceiling that sits well above any real-world file size. Files break into chunks that move in parallel automatically, and transfers resume from where they stopped if the connection drops.
No. Files.com is heavily optimized to run fast over standard protocols with standard clients — the web uploader, the SFTP and FTP server, and the API all move large files in parallel with no special client. For the absolute maximum throughput, the Files.com Agent paired with the Desktop App adds custom UDP-based acceleration, but fast transfer does not require it.
Files.com beats UDP-based acceleration tools on speed over standard protocols using parallel streams, chunking, and smart retry and resume — without the proprietary appliance, the per-seat licensing, or the lock-in those tools require. Files.com also ships its own custom UDP-based acceleration in the Agent for the long-haul, lossy-network, and multi-terabyte workloads that specifically want it. UDP is an option here, not a requirement.
Files.com runs a 100 Gbit network on the server side with 10 Gbit/sec internet connectivity via AWS, and benchmarks 2–5× faster than other SFTP and FTP clients. The server-side pipe is never the bottleneck; your real-world speed then depends on your own network, the system you are transferring from, and the size and number of files. The 2–5× figure is a benchmark, not a guaranteed absolute rate.
Yes. Files.com runs billions of transfers a year at global scale with a success rate above 99.99%, and compute and bandwidth scale up and down with the workload automatically — there is no cluster to size and no weekend tuning. A spike in volume is handled by the platform, not by your team.
Move Your Heaviest Files Without The Wait
Start a free trial and push a multi-gigabyte file through the web uploader, or pair the Agent and Desktop App for the absolute maximum. Either way, the big transfer finishes — no appliance, no per-seat bill.
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