Online Storage For The Masses
In recent years, online storage has become a highly improved and highly competitive market. This is mostly because of the dropping prices of online storage to the point that there’s a lot more room for free accounts to get users signing up and uploading. Here are some options for the free-file hoster in you.
Hosting Images
This is a space that can be sub-divided. I also don’t think there is a real standout and that people will have their own preference. Are you interested in a long-term relationship or something more long lasting? I can help you with both.
Suppose you have a stupid, random, pointless blog that exists for no good reason and just want to upload some images to go along with your posts, what can you use?
Meaningful Relations
Perhaps the “Wham, Bam, thank you ma’am” that is Imageshack and AYCU are not enough. Maybe what you want is a way to keep your photographs online, in a community environment, or at least be able to keep track of what you upload. If you’re a photographer, then what you want is flickr. For something more lax, photobucket is yours.
Host Anything
Maybe you have a podcast, like sharing movies, or want to put some random file for people to upload. We have a few options as well. While you may have encountered people putting up files through megashare or rapidshare, my choices are mediafire and divshare.
Also, check out divshare if you have a self-hosted WordPress blog, you can install their plugin and automatically upload files through your WP dashboard as opposed to using your own storage.
Documents/Online Desktop
If you want to essentially have an online desktop, then what you want is box.net It gives you a clean interface, with the ability to create folder like your own desktop.
