Hi nmb, this looks interesting, thanks. Tested it out on small text files and it works. What is your upload and download bandwidth? I think it would be better if it showed the list of files, their status/progress, and ability to delete a file from the queue.
The app is completely run and hosted on DotCloud, so bandwidth is limited by their capacity.
Right now when you submit a URL it's added to a global queue, and a separate python process goes through that queue and uploads them asynchronously on a first come, first-served basis. So with my current architecture it would be difficult to implement the functionality you describe but I agree that it would be cool. Smugmug's photo uploader has a similar feature; I should look into how they do it. (Or if anyone knows or has an idea, feel free to chime in!)
Yeah, DotCloud is all about hosting apps on their platform. ;) They have support for background processes, redis, postgres, and wsgi, so they were basically perfect for my use case. The best place to get started is DotCloud's own docs, as well as this blog post (specifically for django): http://kencochrane.net/blog/2011/04/deploying-my-django-appl...
Oh and they let you use their SSL certificate for free, which is pretty nice. The only downside is that the certificate isn't recognized by some versions of the Android browser, but I'm sure that will be fixed soon enough as their support guy is incredibly quick to respond to issues.
