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Using Media Fire for Free File Hosting

Saturday, March 5th, 2011
MediaFire is one of the top free file hosting providers at the moment and they offer their services through the portal at MediaFire.com
MediaFire handles a load of 94 million users every month who share more than 572 million files. With such impressive numbers, it’s no doubt you should consider MediaFire for your free file hosting needs.
The upload service is easy to use and you are only 2 clicks away from uploading files once you are on the MediaFire homepage. You can also create a free account for file storage which will allow you to manage, organize and share your files from any computer that’s connected to the Internet from an easy to use interface on your web browser.
This makes MediaFire a great platform for sharing files and images with family, friends or other online users. As with most free file hosting providers, you cannot hotlink your files on free accounts but you can do so if you subscribe to a paid account.
The service claims to offer unlimited uploads from all accounts, unlimited downloads which means you can share your files and images for an unlimited number of times and also unlimited storage which means that in theory you can upload as many files you want. That comes easy with the maximum allowed files size which is a generous 200 MB. Naturally, the
unlimited features are subject to their acceptable use policy so if you abuse it, they will most likely block your account.
If you’re not using MediaFire.com yet, you should start doing so!

Free File Hosting

Tuesday, April 27th, 2010

Free File Hosting is a type of web hosting service which allows you to host files free of charge. You can use a free file hosting service to share files with family, friends or other people online and you can also use it to host files for backup purposes.

There has always been a demand fro free file hosting but such services started exploding after 2004 when dozens started to appear. Today, there are a number of established free file hosting services which are the most reliable and frequently used. There are also a number of smaller free file hosting services which one needs to be caucious before using as they can disappear overnight and you could lose your files.

Typically, a free file hosting service will host any type of media file or any type of file generally if you put it into an archive. This means you can share photos, music, etc. Many people use free file hosting to host copyrighted files which is against the terms of service of all free file hosting services but most often not inforced as they will typically remove files only upon complaint from the copyright author.

You can generally upload a file that is up to 100 MB in size so if you need to upload large files, the most common option is to create an archive using multiple volumes of say 100 MB each.

The downsides of free file hosting include the presence of advertisements on download pages, delays when downloading of minutes, download unavailability due to high server load and removal of files without notice.

For the reasons above, using a free file hosting service for uploading files that you don’t plan to keep on your computer is always a bad idea as these services should only be used to upload files you have other copies of.

Today, the most popular free file hosting services are, in no particular order – MediaFire.com, FileFactory.com, YouShare.com and of course, MegaUpload.com and RapidShare.com