We are considering switching from SA-FileUp to RadUpload for file uploads for a new product version. We use SA-FileUp for its upload streaming capability rather than for UI bling. SA-FileUp intercepts incoming files and saves them to disk and makes them available to applications, rather than letting the IIS worker process load the entire thing into memory, which has serious scaling problems when hundreds of users are uploading multiple-megabyte files.
I have two questions:
1) Does RadUpload have a similar streamlining capability, or is it just a UI widget?
2) If RadUpload does have this streamlining capability, is it possible to get it even if the user has disabled (or doesn't have) JavaScript? (it would be ok if we had to create our own custom control that interacted with or inherited from Telerik.) We verified experimentally that, out of the box, RadUpload fails if JavaScript is disabled on the client browser.
One of the things I dislike about SA-FileUp is the necessity of having special .UPLX web forms - it complicates the UI. If Telerik can support scalable upload without separate upload web forms, that would be excellent.
Basically, what i'm looking for is an efficient uploader. UI bling is nice, but if it crashes after five concurrent 50MB files, it isn't going to be usable.
I have two questions:
1) Does RadUpload have a similar streamlining capability, or is it just a UI widget?
2) If RadUpload does have this streamlining capability, is it possible to get it even if the user has disabled (or doesn't have) JavaScript? (it would be ok if we had to create our own custom control that interacted with or inherited from Telerik.) We verified experimentally that, out of the box, RadUpload fails if JavaScript is disabled on the client browser.
One of the things I dislike about SA-FileUp is the necessity of having special .UPLX web forms - it complicates the UI. If Telerik can support scalable upload without separate upload web forms, that would be excellent.
Basically, what i'm looking for is an efficient uploader. UI bling is nice, but if it crashes after five concurrent 50MB files, it isn't going to be usable.