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- RedS0x, on 08/28/2008, -4/+67I hope this gets popular so people learn better alternatives to Rapidshare...(cringe)
- Me0wmix, on 08/29/2008, -5/+61***** Rapidshare
- Eisim, on 08/29/2008, -2/+47Not on the list:
MediaFire, drop.io, iDrive, Omnidrive, Divshare, Box.net, Gigasize, Sugarsync, Foldershare - inactive, on 08/29/2008, -4/+31Rapidshare and megaupload both.. im surprised they are still so popular
- m0rtified, on 08/29/2008, -3/+26what about dropbox? http://www.getdropbox.com/
or even dropboks? http://www.dropboks.com/ - katjas, on 08/29/2008, -1/+20And ***** MegaUpload
- bweltondav, on 08/29/2008, -6/+20rapidshare. psh. more like, "crapidshare."
- scy1192, on 08/29/2008, -1/+15Mediafire is my personal favorite.
- scarwars, on 08/29/2008, -1/+11"Yeah I'm a true pirate! I pay for my warez!"
- ddfall, on 08/29/2008, -1/+10As a Drop Box user, I love it. I think the service is great but it is still currently in a private beta. More to come soon I hope. The cross platform syncing is amazing.
- OneLess, on 08/29/2008, -1/+8File Dropper? The last time I tried that was when they were giving out free accounts, and it kept getting to like 100 meg uploaded and freezing. Does it actually work now?
- arcooke, on 08/29/2008, -0/+7These aren't backup services. They're for temporary file storage.
If you want a solid backup, buy another hard drive. - michaelyurechko, on 08/29/2008, -1/+8staying on box theme:
http://box.net - venomoushealer, on 08/29/2008, -4/+11i love how half these comments are diggers thrusting their own personal favorite file hosting services. perhaps we can all cumulatively write an article called "Digg's Top 10 File Hosting Services."
- startleman, on 08/29/2008, -2/+8dropbox
http://www.getdropbox.com/ - aywwts4, on 08/29/2008, -1/+7They are popular purely because they host gigabytes of warez without really batting an eye. I can't believe Nintendo or Sony hasn't gone after them. They are 5000 times guiltier than any torrent site ever was.
That said, Boy is it a handy site ;) - katjas, on 08/29/2008, -1/+7MediaFire ftw
- tunapez, on 08/29/2008, -0/+6Because they don't require account set-ups and are free?
Who really needs another obscure, fake-name log-in account? Gonna have to un-digg this article after waiting 90 seconds to upload a 295kb jpeg at the 1st site.
It's been a few years, I use my own ftp server nowadays, but in the past mega and rapid were free and required no log-in, you just had to wait the excruciating 30(60/90/?) seconds for the OK to commence. - frequentFlyer, on 08/29/2008, -1/+6Brought to you by the Department of Redundancy Department.
- inactive, on 08/29/2008, -1/+6I find it redundantly repetitive.
- jigga, on 08/29/2008, -0/+5Who sees ads anymore? Adblock Plus FTW!
- jamiemcconnell, on 08/29/2008, -0/+5I know, the alexa results are crazy for them - although the files are mostly porn!
- Sippi, on 08/29/2008, -1/+5drop.io has been good to me, I was kinda surprise it was not on there. Storage isn't that large but you have great control over the content you post and for how long it is there.
- finn, on 08/29/2008, -0/+4for the most secure (albeit, not 100% secure :) ), don't forget 127.0.0.1
- joshualamgroup, on 08/30/2008, -0/+4hmm, I'm seeing an ad right on this page, and i DO have Ad Block Plus...
- venomoushealer, on 08/29/2008, -0/+4This deserves ∞ props.
- warrior007, on 08/29/2008, -1/+5good list but a few big ones are missing
- je12u, on 08/30/2008, -0/+3Complete with 20 MB limitations
http://email.about.com/od/gmailtips/qt/et083105.ht ... - sprint84, on 08/29/2008, -0/+3I guess a good comparative feature should be:
This website has a fancy captcha in download window? - schneidafunk, on 08/29/2008, -0/+3I don't know how they can miss adrive.com which gives 50GB for free
- DigSomeMore, on 08/28/2008, -5/+8Nice list...cheers
- PleaseJustDie, on 08/29/2008, -0/+3I just tried out filesavr and file dropper doing the little up load with a test image...
both use flash for the file upload....
Both sent me to an idential file path of an HTML page with just the image as a link to sign up
http://www.filedropper.com/adreamyworld
http://www.filesavr.com/adreamyworld
and an image path of...
http://www.filedropper.com/second/ea9f157a1d7eaae3 ...
http://www.filesavr.com/second/24369a065f0d7fa7c5d ...
anyone else noticing something here?
Looks to me that either they are the same thing, different place, or one company is seriously copying another. - xXShadowstormXx, on 08/29/2008, -2/+5Box.net and Mediafire FTW.
- byah, on 08/29/2008, -1/+4*****. psh. more like, "*****."
- javaroast, on 08/29/2008, -0/+3Filedropper is an excellent example of how spam really does work. When the service was started it was running off a roadrunner connection. They spammed their story all over the place and people seemed to go for it.
- inactive, on 08/29/2008, -0/+2what a joke......10gb per file?.as long as your willing to download at snails pace, right......you just know there's a big catch, otherwise it would've been great.
- str3ama, on 08/29/2008, -3/+5File Factory = popups galore
File Dropper = came out of nowhere, totally unreliable to be honest.
BEST IMO: http://www.MediaFire.com - really fast, quick to download, all the usual features and virus scanning of files.
Also I like http://www.ripway.com - it's great for small files, direct hotlinking allowed too. Only problem is 30 day delete limit, so you have to login once every 30 days to keep your account active. Other then that it's awesome. - phatphil, on 08/30/2008, -0/+2Great list... bookmarked for later.
- EtherGnat, on 08/30/2008, -0/+2"even with a Fios connection that would take weeks for an inital back up"
Verizon FiOS offers 20Mbps upload speeds for $70/month (less with phone service). Assuming no overhead that would take 13 hours and 20 minutes to back up 120GB, so in reality you're probably looking at about a day--not weeks. It might be a little painful for an initial backup, but things would hum after that.
As arcooke said, though, this isn't about backup. - DigitalBrian, on 08/29/2008, -0/+2Well with Comcast being ***** capping the bandwidth I am not going to use online storage anymore
- arcooke, on 08/29/2008, -0/+2Nice catch. Maybe they both bought pre-made file hosting software.
- m00nmaster, on 08/29/2008, -1/+3Gmail. 7 gigs and steadily rising. FREE.
- vanden9, on 08/29/2008, -0/+2When Divshare started it was great but now it kinda sucks...
- erictheninja, on 08/29/2008, -0/+2I did the same, but FileDropper never seems to work for me in Safari, Firefox 2 or 3 (Win and Mac), and IE7. I'll finish a large upload and won't get redirected or will get fed unrendered html as text.
- exonyte, on 08/29/2008, -1/+3zShare is pretty good too, atleast for hosting mp3s and documents.
- MikeSobe, on 08/29/2008, -0/+2Right but if you share hard drive space you get more space.
- Games4Life, on 08/29/2008, -0/+2If only we could cooperate enough to write it.
- arcooke, on 08/29/2008, -1/+2Wow.. that site is way too "Web 2.0" looking... To the point where it's ugly.
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