How LLCServco Drive works
Everything below is how the product actually behaves. Where something has a limit, the limit is written here too — you should find that out from this page, not from a bad day.
What this is
Your organization’s files, on your organization’s own server, in your own building. People get a normal folder on Windows, an app on Android, and a web app on iPhone — and everything they save sits on hardware you control. LLCServco never holds your files and cannot read them. When the global internet goes down, your people keep working: only the licence check waits for the line to come back. Off-site backup and public links are coming soon.
Your folder on Windows
A real folder on a real disk — not a placeholder that downloads when you touch it. Copy into it, save into it from Word, rename, delete; the sync engine notices and the change reaches everyone with access. The client chooses a local SSD by itself, asks you only if there is nowhere sensible, and never picks a USB stick. There is a shortcut on the desktop called LLCServco Drive.
The Android app
One app that knows who you are. As a member of staff you get files, folders, upload, sharing, versions, your profile and your session. If you are an administrator the same app also gives you users, devices, activation keys, the audit trail, backup (coming soon) and the licence. Transfers resume — losing signal in a lift costs you the last chunk, not the last hour.
iPhone and iPad
There is no App Store app, on purpose. Your own server serves a web app at your own address, and Safari can add it to the home screen so it opens like any other app. It does what the Android app does. The one thing it cannot do is remove its own icon when a licence ends — iOS does not allow that, and we would rather say so than pretend otherwise.
Files, folders and search
Folders behave the way you expect. Open a file to preview it where the browser can, download it where it cannot. Recent shows what changed lately; Shared with me shows what colleagues have given you. Nothing here is a window onto somebody else’s cloud — every byte is on your server.
Versions, and what happens when two people edit
Every real save makes a new version. Staff see one file — the current one — and their computers do not fill with old copies. Administrators see the whole history and can restore any of it. If two people edit the same document at once, nothing is overwritten and nothing is lost: the second save becomes a clearly named conflict version carrying the person and the time, both are kept, and the audit trail records it.
Who can see what
Two roles, and they mean what they say. A VIEWER can open and download. An EDITOR can also add, change and create new versions. Either can be given an expiry, and when that moment passes access stops immediately — it is checked on the server on every request, not hidden in the app. Whoever creates a folder owns it and can share it, but nobody can grant more than they hold themselves. An administrator always has the final say.
Deleting, and getting it back
Deleting a file removes it from every device that syncs the folder, which is what people expect and why we ask first. It is not gone: the versions stay on the server and an administrator can put it back. Only an explicit administrator deletion actually destroys data — an expired licence, a locked account, an uninstall or a failed security check never do.
Meetings
Start a meeting from the app and share the link with colleagues. Video and audio go directly between the people in the room, so nothing passes through us. That is comfortable up to about six people; past that your organization can point Drive at its own media server and the same meeting scales further. Time is measured per person, so six people for a minute each is not counted as an hour.
One-time public links (coming soon)
Not live yet. Once it opens, an administrator will be able to turn one file into a single public download link for somebody outside the organization — a client, an accountant, a lawyer. The link will work once, surviving a download manager pausing and resuming, because it is the completed download that spends it and not the first request. It will also carry an expiry you choose. Your server will never be opened to anonymous visitors: the file is encrypted, handed to LLCServco to relay, and removed afterwards.
Backup (coming soon)
Not live yet. Once it opens, your server will be able to send an encrypted copy of new versions to LLCServco. It will be encrypted before it leaves your building and we will not be able to read it. Only new content will go, so nothing is uploaded twice. Your licence will set how much may leave each day; when that is used the rest waits for tomorrow and your own sync never stops. This off-site copy is separate from the encrypted backup your own server already writes to its own S: drive today — that local copy is live now and does not wait on this feature.
Updates
Your server fetches new versions of the apps, checks the signature and the hash, and only then offers them to your staff. Their computers never need the global internet to update — they ask your server. A Windows update installs itself atomically and puts the working program back if the new one fails its health check.
Your licence, including with no internet
The licence is a signed document your server holds. It is checked against a key built into the software, so it cannot be forged and putting the clock back does not extend it. Losing the global internet neither expires it nor renews it. If your server cannot reach us when renewal is due, an administrator opens Licence in the menu and pastes in the signed document we send — by email to a phone, on a memory stick, however it reaches you. It is checked on your own server and nothing is sent anywhere.
The administrator’s side
One place for the whole organization: create and lock people, see every device and revoke one that is lost, issue activation keys, look at every file and every version including conflicts, set who may see what, read an audit trail that cannot be edited, watch updates, create public links (coming soon) and off-site backup (coming soon), and manage the licence. Everything an administrator does goes into the same audit trail — including what they do themselves.