Thanks for noting the reason for alternative to Mega - and that's a pretty reasonable price. WorkUpLoad is iffy with retention - not sure if they poop-can data after a hard-30 (following initial UL) or if it's 30-days from last download; and If it differs for free / registered users. There's other hosting sites as well based on items we've gotten from this forum (people with greater familarity using them might offer insight on this thread). As always - thanks to you guys running this site. A lot of moving parts . . . all in effort to providing stuff of interest.
Some other sites: https://buzzheavier.com https://cyberfile.me Does not appear to work anymore; thanks for the feedback on this host
I get network issues when trying upload on buzzheavier and same message as doodlebug on cyberfile. I would prefer to use sites where a registration is not required.
I don't have any issues with the former but confirm those issues with the latter - edited Post #22 to reflect those observations. As stated previously - there's a shite-load of hosting sites out there amongst the International community - some of which actually pop up to harvest data under the guise of "The Cloud" - only to cave-in several months later - so caveat emptor or more appropriately "accipies quae attribuisti" - ya get what ya pay for - - - free is seldom so . . . thus the need for multi-layer pseudo-nyms as related to the likes of this forum . . . IOW - I agree with you . . . Here's a link to a video on 60 Minutes blabing a piece with Kim Dotcom of Mega-UpLoad way back when his island (file hosting can be a pretty lucrative venture) was invaded and threat of extradition went down . . . an interesting watch . . . https://pluto.tv/us/on-demand/serie...79b/season/3/episode/6467e083f2a541001b8f2cf5
Just tried an alternative to workupload,swisstransfer.com doesn't require registration and also 30-day
Another: https://hexload.com/ Active files remain - non-active get deleted after 30 days - registration not required.
I've recently been using this as well as an alternative for larger shares - but haven't tested the retention as defined . . . see Post #17 of this thread for my "test" about file retention - most of which have went long beyond the 30-day time frame . . .
Sounds good, I'll give hexupload a try since it can keep it beyond 30 days. Their site looks like its going through some changes though
I can recommend: https://krakenfiles.com/faq Fast Upload and Download. No registration required (fles get deleted if no DL for 1 month, or register and files don't get deleted if not DL for 3 months)
For me it's Google Drive hands down. $10 a month for 2tb plus you can link 5 other Gmail accounts to it. So I'm actually getting 10tb for the price of one.
Actually 2TB shared is 2TB, not 10TB, because even if you add other gmail accounts, they will all share the same 2TB.
There was a time (and I'm pretty sure some folks are still grandfathered in) where there was a loophole - if you signed up for Google workplace, you could add up to five seats and each seat would add to the pooled data instead of sharing it. Was way cheaper than signing up for the extra cloud storage directly
Oh, and just a clarification on pixeldrain. One of the things that makes it nice it that it retains your files for 120 days after the date of the last download. So if folks are interested in and still downloading the file the clock keeps getting reset. Just make sure to keep individual files below 5GB so that free users can use a VPN to get around the daily speed throttle (kicks in at 5 GB).
