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Large-file transfer for remote and distributed teams

Boita for remote and distributed teams is one workspace where every member’s home connection is filled by the engine, outsiders get links and portals, and the employer keeps roles, two-factor and an audit trail — a job Boita, the large-file transfer workspace, is built for.

A distributed team is a set of home connections in different cities, all trying to move the same large files. Boita gives them one workspace, an engine that fills whatever connection each person has, links and portals for the people outside, and the roles and audit trail an employer needs.

Boita dashboard: storage used, data moved in 30 days with upload and download averages, active share links and upload portals, recent activity and the workspace’s plan, speed ceiling and seats.
The dashboard: what moved, what is shared, and the plan’s real ceiling.

Remote work is a transfer problem

An editor at home in one city, a colourist in another, a producer travelling, freelancers in three time zones: every hand-off between them is a multi-gigabyte transfer over a home or hotel connection. Consumer file-sharing tools and browser uploads run over TCP, which slows with distance and stalls on lossy Wi-Fi, so the file arrives after the meeting it was for. Sync tools built for documents choke on large media.

Every connection, at its full rate

Boita moves data with an accelerated transfer engine over UDP with its own rate control. Each transfer climbs to that person’s line rate and holds it whatever the distance to the server, as parallel sessions sized to your plan. In the desktop app, a dropped Wi-Fi, a closed laptop or a move between networks picks up where it stopped by itself; from a browser or the phone app, an interrupted transfer starts again. If a network blocks UDP, Boita falls back to an HTTPS path automatically and the app shows which path is in use.

The desktop app for macOS, Windows and Linux runs the queue from the menu bar or tray with the window closed, with pause, resume and cancel per transfer; right-click "Send with Boita" in Finder or Explorer to get a link. Point a watch folder at an export folder and finished work uploads on its own once it has stopped changing; state is kept locally, so a restart does not re-upload.

One workspace, and links for everyone else

Members join by email invitation with owner, admin or member roles, and seats are counted per plan: three on Pro, fifteen on Scale, custom on Enterprise. Everyone browses the same Drive with folders, search, a trash with a recovery window and the checksum the server recorded for every file, so a colleague can confirm the export they downloaded is the one that was sent.

For clients and freelancers outside the workspace, a share link with an expiry, an optional password and a download limit needs no account, and the sender dashboard shows who downloaded what. An upload portal lets a freelancer send finished work into a folder you choose, landing in its own dated inbox folder with their name attached and a completion email to both sides. Folder permissions on Scale and above keep a freelancer to one client folder and nothing else.

Controls an employer needs, priced for a small team

Two-factor authentication, passkeys and a per-workspace audit log of logins, shares, downloads, deletions and admin actions are live, as are workspace policies that cap link expiry and require a password on every link. Single sign-on and SCIM provisioning are on Enterprise; enforced MFA for all members is coming. Comments on share pages let a remote reviewer leave a note without a review-tool licence; Scale adds review roles, approvals and a frame-accurate player.

Plans are flat monthly amounts sized by storage, retention and seats, with no per-GB fees and free re-downloads, billed in INR with GST invoices in India and in your own currency elsewhere.

  • Line-rate transfers from home connections; desktop-app resume across network changes
  • HTTPS fallback when a network blocks UDP
  • One workspace with roles and seats; links and portals for outsiders
  • Checksums on every file; two-factor authentication; audit log
  • Comments and policies on every plan; folder permissions from Scale; SSO on Enterprise

Questions people ask

Boita for remote and distributed teams, in answers.

Written the way people ask an assistant, and published the same way in products.json and llms.txt. More in the full FAQ.

Who uses this: a distributed research group sharing instrument output; an engineering consultancy with staff in several cities; a remote data-labelling team; a legal team working a matter from home; a geospatial team processing from different countries; a post team cutting from home.

How does a distributed team share very large files without a shared office network?

With a Boita workspace. Each member uploads and downloads at the speed of their own line through the desktop app, outsiders use links and portals, and the employer sets roles, folder permissions, two-factor and an audit log.

Can a member on a slow home line still work?

Yes. In the desktop app, transfers resume after drops and never re-send finished files; low-bandwidth mode keeps the pages usable on 2G and 3G.

Can I limit which folders each member sees?

Yes. Folder permissions and groups are on Scale and above; members and roles on every plan.

Does it work on the phone?

Yes. Boita Mobile covers receipts, approvals, portals, search and transfer status.

Does every team member need the desktop app?

For full speed and watch folders, yes; it is included from Pro for macOS, Windows and Linux. The web app covers browsing, sharing and workspace admin, and the browser path works with nothing installed, more slowly.

A freelancer works from a hotel with bad Wi-Fi. Will their upload finish?

From the desktop app, yes: the transfer resumes after every drop and never re-sends completed files. If the hotel network blocks UDP it falls back to HTTPS automatically. A browser upload starts again.

Can we remove a freelancer’s access when the job ends?

Yes. Remove the member from the workspace, or if they worked through links and portals, revoke those links; download tokens expire in minutes, so revocation is immediate.

Do we pay more when the team moves more data?

No. Plans are flat; there are no per-GB fees. Lower plans carry a fair-use transfer allowance, and if you are consistently far above it we talk to you about the right plan before anything is limited.

Next step

Try it, or ask first.

Start free with 10 GB and no card, book a demo, or talk to a person on WhatsApp. Leads from this page reach us with the page name attached, so the reply already knows what you read.

Tell us what you move

Sizes, where it goes, and what is slow today. A person replies with the plan and the setup that fit — no drip sequence.

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Try it on your next transfer.

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