Hosting large files on the internet

[20andhard]

Firstly I sincerely apologies if this is not the correct place to be posting this. If its not, obviously feel free to move it, or delete it or however it is things like this are delt with on these forums.

I posted here because I've seen several other computer related questions. I have a rather large file I would like to host somewhere so others can download it. Its about 27 mb's.

I've looked around, and the few places I've found have been less then...how do you say strait forward. I have a very very poor understanding of the workings of the internet, html, and what ever else you can come up with that goes along with that voodoo.

So, if anyone knows of a site capable of hosting such a file, which is not child friendly, I would really appreciate it if you could direct me to such a place.

 

[20andhard]

No suggestions? Ok well thanks for looking anyway folks.

 

[alonelygal]

No suggestions? Ok well thanks for looking anyway folks.

The person who may know the answer you need may simply not have seen the post yet. Have you tried a keyword search of the how to board? That usually helps me quite a bit.

i'm sorry, i'm not too compu-savvy, just wanted to tell you to not give up on being answered, just be patient.

Good luck...
joanna

 

[drummer34]

Get a Yahoo ID (Free) and create a Yahoo Group (also free). The groups can be found under "Yahoo Community" or under "More Yahoo - Even More Yahoo"
Each group can contain 20MB data and you can make as many groups as you like. They are much used for exchanginf files.

 

[Weird Harold]

Each group can contain 20MB data and you can make as many groups as you like. They are much used for exchanginf files.

That's about 7Mb shy of what he needs for just the one file.

I don't have any specific knowledge of good webhosts -- my ISP offers a 100MB allotment for a personal webpage, but doesnt' permit adult content -- which is apparently a concern in this case.

Other than the personal webspace offered by most ISPs, which are mostly similar to the one offered by mine, I don't know of any FREE webhosts that would permit a 27Mb file with adult content.

Almost any paid webhost could accomodate the file and/or the adult content but it could get real spendy on bandwidth charges if more than four or five people download that file.

A mega-e-mail service -- Like Whalemail -- might be the best solution since I get the impression that this is a temporary need for online space to transfer a file. Juno is offering a supersized e-mail service for $1.95 a month that might work (I don't remember the size limits off-hand though.)

 

[20andhard]

Thanks alot for the suggestions ladies and gents.

I already have a Yahoo account, and could get a Gmail invitation if I wanted one(although I beleive they both offer 1gb storage).

I was looking to host this file so I could put it up on the amature picture part of these forums actually, hence the hosting. I figured it would be to I dont know, I suppose, out of line to post in that specific forum with a topic that was empty in the sense of having nothing linked(it would be great if any of you ladies and gents could inform me if that theory is correct or not, or even if video is perminted in that forum).

I'll keep searching, and again, thanks for the input.

 

[Weird Harold]

I was looking to host this file so I could put it up on the amature picture part of these forums actually, hence the hosting. I figured it would be to I dont know, I suppose, out of line to post in that specific forum with a topic that was empty in the sense of having nothing linked(it would be great if any of you ladies and gents could inform me if that theory is correct or not, or even if video is perminted in that forum).

There is nothing that would prevent you from posting a link to your video or a question about the technical details of hosting it in the amateur pictures forum. I think either of those would be within the intent of that forum.

However, there is no way that you can display the video directly in that forum -- the software is not configured such that an HTML syntax command would work and the vBulletin software doesn't provide vB tags for displaying video and the file is far too large for the attachment function's file size limit.

 

[JennyRocks]

Not sure.