Upload files via FTP

Is there another way to automate file uploads?

I just wrote a utility to copy or move assets from drops to an FTP site, and similarly to move files from a directory in an FTP site to a drop. I'm not quite sure what to do with it yet so suggestions for specific functionality are welcome.

An application I can see for this is a background process that watches drops for new files and then pushes them off to a desired FTP site. If the site contains files for a website, this means you can essentially update images and other content for a website simply by posting files to your drop. Of course that also means you can email files to your drop, which then get pulled out to the website, or you can have voicemail and other assets displayed on some website other than drop.io, you can even get inbound faxes posted to some other site.

Conversely, let's say someone posts a file to an FTP site. This will pull it out to drop.io, and from there rules can be applied for emailing, tweeting, or performing other standard Drop.io operations on the data.

This is one step away from a similar utility where you just put files into a local directory to have them pushed out to a drop - or similarly anything that gets put into a drop can get extracted back to your PC.

This utility is currently a Windows Forms (thick client) app written in C#. It can and will easily be re-worked to a tray app, a windows service, or incorporated into any other application. As a Windows app, this needs to be running somewhere in order to work. (Um, duh?) It can get run from the Task Scheduler, run in the background, or it can be triggered by some website operation. If you want the functionality to work without your PC running, the utility will need to run on a hosted Windows box somewhere. I can host this if there is demand, but as always (with me anyway), such a service can't be provided for free - maybe a buck a month or something close. I don't see a need to port it to Mono for Mac or *nix any time soon but if anyone really prefers to have this running outside of Windows I don't anticipate any issues.

Comments and suggestions are welcome.