Hosting Toolbox

Monday, October 31, 2005

Putfile hosts your media files.

Putfile allows you host various kinds of media files, including images, video, audio and swf animation. You need not to register if your individual files are not bigger than 10MB, but a free registration will increase your upload capacity to 25MB maximum per file.

Thursday, October 27, 2005

Free Web and Email Hosting Service, for charity only.

f you are non-profit-making organisation, come on in to claim your free web and email hosting, since Community Software Lab, sponsored by UMass Lowell, is try to help you by providing you the neccessary web spaces. Moreover, they are willing to develop customer software for you at an extremely low rate.

Community Software Lab has a clear mission:

help you use technology to better assist those you serve.

ClipShack: Video Hosting and Posting

ClipShack allows you upload 50MB video clips to there server, so that you can share you video with your friends. To facilitate your uploading works, they created a ClipShack Uploader, so that you can fulfill upload taks with just drag-n-drop!

Moreover, they provide cop-n-pase code, so that you could easily post your video anywhere on the web.

Sunday, October 23, 2005

FreeSQL.Org: Free Database Hosting For Developers

Ever want to have somewhere to host your database? FreeSQL.org is your choice if you go for MySQL. But the webmaster of FreeSQL tells on the front page that:
My grand plan is to begin by offering free MySQL hosting, and if the interest is there I plan to add PostgreSQL, SAPDB, Sybase, DB2, and possibly Oracle (all for free - as the licenses allow).

Wanna try to have your free database hosting? Sign up here!

Thursday, October 20, 2005

450MB.com Free Hosting

450MB.com is a free web hosting service. As the name suggests, it provides 450MB space with unlimited bandwidth. Moreover, it has a file manager to control upload and download of files. It also allows users to WYSIWYG or HTML Editor to author web pages.

Wednesday, October 19, 2005

GetFile: Russian File Hosting Service

GetFile is a free file hosting service from Russia. The most interesting thing of GetFile is two different uploading approaches. If you upload via standard web interface, the maximum file size allowed is 50MB; while if you upload via their advanced FTP tool (in fact it is just the FTP view of browser, so not all browser is supported), you may upload 1GB files in a time.

Tuesday, October 18, 2005

WebDrive maps FTP Location as your Local Storage Space

Web hosting space can easily be integrated with your local storage space, simply by WebDrive. This application goes beyond the functionalities of FTP, but also connect your remote hosting space directly as a local hard drive. By mapping a remote FTP location as a local drive, you can easily work with remote file.

It supports standard SSL protocol, as well as SFTP servers. You may download the 20-day trial here. If you find it useful, you might check out the price list here.

Sunday, October 16, 2005

100MB Free DeluXe Host

DeluXe Host provides 100MB Free webspace plus 300GB Traffic. This free web hosting service won't impose banner or pop up ads on your webpages. Moreover, it supports PHP and MySQL. Users may also be allowed to upload files via FTP clients.

Friday, October 14, 2005

gDisk: Gmail storage space on Mac OS

gDisk is a Mac solution to turn Gmail storage space into a hard drive. You gotta install this tiny software and access your Gmail account with it. It requires you to have Mac OS X (10.3 or above) or you may not be able to enjoy it.

If you like this small utility, you might donate to the author through PayPal.

Thursday, October 13, 2005

HostRave: Free and Ad-Free Web Hosting

HostRave offers 50MB web space with MySQL support. What's more? It allows you to have a free email account. But the most important is that HostRave is a totally ad-free service. Neither banner ads or pop up will be imposed on your web sites.

If you have any question, you might visit their support forum and talk with other users.

Spread-It: Temporary File Storage

Spread-It, like Dropload or LFile, is a temporary file storage service. Each file is hosted for 14 days. What Spread-It different from Dropload or LFile is that it provides a "delete link", so that a file can be deleted before the 2-week time limit of a file is fulfilled.

Wednesday, October 12, 2005

Dropload hosted 100MB files for 7 days

Compared with LFile I have just introduced, I prefer Dropload. Actually, I get used to Dropload, though only 100MB volume is allowed to be hosted for 7 days, but I found it already enough.

Unlike LFile, Dropload does require us to register and login. It saves our recipients' email addresses, so that we can easily send many big files to same persons.

When the recipients download our uploaded files, email notifications will be sent to us.

LFile: Temporary File Hosting Service from Japan

LFile hosts file as large as 1GB. This Japanese hosting service (so Japanese interface) only hosts a file for 5 days or 10 downloads. Either requirement is fulfilled, the file will be deleted.

Tuesday, October 11, 2005

FileFront: Thematic File Hosting Service for Gamers

Got any game files to host? FileFront is for you. They say:
  • STORE your files remotely in a secure location
  • ACCESS your files anywhere at anytime
  • UNLIMITED file uploads
  • UNLIMITED file downloads
  • UNLIMITED bandwidth
  • UNLIMITED space
  • GIVE the public access to any or all of your files

  • Sign up now to get your dedicated hosting space for you. Or, try to find any game files, like FM2006, there.

    Monday, October 10, 2005

    Supload.com: Free Hosting Space for Image, Audio and Video Files

    Supload.com: No registration is required to host your image, audio and video files. After you upload your files, HTML or forum code will be generated automatically, so that you can post them wherever you want.

    Maximum image dimension of image allowed to upload is 1600 x 3200 px.

    Moreover, Supload.com also lets you to transfer and resize image files from other web servers.

    Sunday, October 09, 2005

    Comprehensive Free Web Hosting Directory

    "Free Webspace and Free Web Hosting Services" is an expanding directory of dedicated free hosting services. Now, there are over 600 all kinds of free hosting services listed on the site, including those supporting PHP, CGI and MySQL. Be sure to try their "Free Web Hosting Power Search" tool to get what you want.

    UploadHut.com: Another Free Hosting for Files up to 50MB

    Like RapidShare, UploadHut.com allows you to host files up to 50MB. On their frontpage, it tells us:
    Store files and pictures upto 50MB on our reliable dedicated server network. Our highly reliable dedicated server network is powered by Linux!

    However, they do not allow files infringing copyrights or violating the US laws.

    Also, no registration is required.

    Saturday, October 08, 2005

    ImageVenue: JPEG image hosting

    ImageVenue hosts image files for you. You may upload JPEG images there with each file not larger than 1.5MB. No need to sign up, but registration allows you to keep track of all uploaded images.

    RapidShare.de: A place where no files are not allowed to share.

    RapidShare allows us to host files with size not large than 50MB. They now host more than 5 millions files online. The Germany hosting company tells in their FAQ that
  • No files that are not allowed to be shared. (illegal, pornographic, copyrighted, etc.)
  • Number of downloads: Unlimited. We have files being downloaded more than 100.000 times.
  • If you need to share big files, why not give RapidShare a try?