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rjbull

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Free file hosting services - any thoughts?
« on: June 24, 2009, 10:20 AM »
Free file hosting services - any thoughts on which are the best, most convenient, whatever?  Or, any links to reviews?

TIA...

mahesh2k

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Re: Free file hosting services - any thoughts?
« Reply #1 on: June 24, 2009, 11:54 AM »
Some good hosts :

-4shared
-Mihd.net
-ifile.net
-mediashare

are some of the good hosts.

If you're looking for document hosting (.doc/.xls/.pdf) then Scribd, Esnips, docstoc are some good options.

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Re: Free file hosting services - any thoughts?
« Reply #2 on: June 24, 2009, 03:19 PM »
I also know of share1t.com and yousendit.

Edvard

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Re: Free file hosting services - any thoughts?
« Reply #3 on: June 24, 2009, 04:02 PM »
Check this Wikipedia article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-click_hosting#One-click_hosting
Looking for reviews? Try this one:
http://www.filehostingreview.com/

For file hosting I've heard good things about DropBox, MediaFire and FileFactory.
I've only used MediaFire but I can say it was a fairly painless signup process and making links to the files is pretty easy.

For file transfer I use YouSendIt and it works fairly well as a "send a big file" type of service.
Caveat: If you send something larger than 20MB, it nags the recipient to also sign up for a free account.
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« Last Edit: June 24, 2009, 04:18 PM by Edvard »

rjbull

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Re: Free file hosting services - any thoughts?
« Reply #4 on: July 09, 2009, 01:24 PM »
Thanks, folks!  I signed up with MediaFire for now.

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