Hosting Toolbox

RapidUp: An file uploading tool for multiple hosting service

2006-10-07T06:19:00.000-07:00

The software title "RapidUp" may mislead you that the software is dedicated for uploading files to RapidShare.

In fact, it is a tool for you to upload files to multiple hosting sites, including:

Megaupload
Rapidshare
SendSpace
FileFront
Uploading
BaDonGo
SexUploader
DepositFiles
MegaShares
OxyShare
StoreAndServe
MegaShare

The most important point is it could bypass the upload speed limit. Isn't it great?

[ via Raymond.CC Blog ]

Sharebig

2006-09-30T18:01:00.000-07:00

Sharebig is an interesting hosting service. It's free. It allows you to upload files with a filesize limit of 1.5GB.

On the key features column, it says:

Minimum 60 days no expire. (No file has expired so far unless it reported as illegal)

1.5GB without expiry restriction. Sounds good for us to host media / video files.

Rapidsharefiles.net

2006-09-24T22:57:00.000-07:00

Rapidshares Files is a very good site providing shortcuts for you to search through several major file hosting services, like Rapidshare, Megaupload, Sharebigfile and Turboupload.

Input keywords and select filetype. You are ready to go now!

TinyPic: the perfect place for small images and videos

2006-02-21T22:16:00.000-08:00

Don't let the service name mislead you. TinyPic.com not only hosts images for you. It hosts small video as well.

Allmydata: Data Storage and Peer Sharing App

2006-01-15T02:54:00.000-08:00

Allmydata caters you unlimited free storage, provided that you share your data without limit. To use their service, you need to download a little programme, which is only available for Windows platform.

Allmydata provide various service plan. The free plan is called "10:1". For example, if you share 10GB on your hard disk, you will have 1GB on Allmydata. If you want to lift the storage ratio, you might need to join their paid services, which will soon be available.

Free blog from GoDaddy

2006-01-12T07:59:00.000-08:00

Just learnt from Quick Online Tips blog that Godaddy will offer domain name bought from them a free blog. Here are what Godaddy promised for the offered blog:

Customizable templates for different designs and layouts.

Image and audio upload capabilities so you can share your favorite photos and more.

IP Banning to keep unwanted visitors from harassing your blog.

RSS capabilities so visitors can automatically receive updates from your blog.

Mailing list notification to help you keep in touch with your visitors.

Surveys to get opinions from your visitors.

Site Statistics to track visitor activity on your blog.

It's a nice idea, since many enterprises would set up their blog but just don't have the technology.

Apart from a free blog, there are more free extras for registering a domain name there. For details, visit this page.

HostBigger: All-in-one Free Hosting Service

2006-01-06T10:47:00.000-08:00

HostBigger is an all-in-one free hosting service. It provides hosting service for websites with the following features:

- DOMAIN OR SUBDOMAIN
- 300 MBS OF WEBSPACE
- 3 GBS OF BANDWIDTH PER MONTH
- PHP CGI, SSI, PYTHON
- 24HR FTP ACCESS
- DIRECT ADMIN ADMINISTRATION
- NO POP UP ADS

Moreover, you might use their image hosting service, which allows you to select foreground, background and border colours for your images.

Also, it provides free webmail service with lot of domain for you to select.

Nice mix of services.

Transfer Big Files

2006-01-02T21:07:00.000-08:00

As the web site title suggests, Transfer Big Files allows you to send big files by uploading those files to their server. Then Transfer Big Files will send a notification to maximum 20 recipients. They are allowed to download the file uploaded by you in 5 days.

100MB Free Web Hosting from Doteasy

2005-12-25T10:25:00.000-08:00

Doteasy offers various hosting plans. Their $0 Hosting Plan allows you to setup your web presence for free by providing 100MB storage space, 1GB data traffic plus 10 personalized email addresses. What's more, you can enjoy FreeSiteDesigner.com website design tool.

Server Monitoring Service

2005-12-22T18:15:00.000-08:00

SiteUptime is a free web server monitoring service allowing you to check if your server is up and running. SiteUptime checks various protocols of servers to see if they experience any failure. Here are the protocol it checks:

HTTP: Web Server

POP3: Email Server

SMTP: Outgoing Email Server

FTP: File Transfer Protocol

SSL: Secure Socket Layer

Custom Ports

Ping

DNS

Searchable Guide for Hosting Services

2005-12-18T03:47:00.000-08:00

FreeWebspace.net is a searchable database that allows you to get a free hosting space according to your needs, no matter you want free or paid service.

Gmail File Space Extension for Firefox

2005-12-15T20:51:00.000-08:00

Now, you can directly upload or download files from your Gmail account via Firefox. This Gmail File Space Extension for Firefox turns your firefox into an FTP interface to access Gmail storage spaces. I've tried and proven that it is Firefox 1.5 compatible.

MegaUploaded: File Directory of MegaUpload

2005-12-08T10:33:00.000-08:00

MegaUploaded.ORG is a sister site of RapidShared.ORG. As RapidShared.ORG compiled a list of files hosted in RapidShare, MegaUploaded.ORG shows you what files are on MegaUpload, another file hosting service out there on the web.

Files are categorised. Search feature is available.

DropSend: Send 1GB files via email

2005-11-25T18:54:00.000-08:00

DropSend is another Dropload-type large file delivery application. It allows you to upload files up to 1GB, so it's more flexible.

Moreover, there is an software application allowing you to upload files directly on the desktop.

Rapidshared.org: a big catalog for RapidShare mega file library

2005-11-25T01:02:00.000-08:00

This blog introduced Rapidshare before. It is one of the most popular file hosting space, which currently host 6 million files, that can be translated into 105-Terabyte volume. There are many interesting content there, but difficult to find them all.

Now, Rapidshared.org solved your problem of find useful things from RapidShare ultra huge storage space. Rapidshared.org, as the name suggests, is a directory recording files hosted in RapidShare. All records are categorised!

More importantly, it provides a search feature, so that we can easily locate files in RapidShare file library.

Though we don't know if Rapidshared.org is an exhaustive list of files in Rapidshare, but it's already a very useful resources for us!

Blast Podcast: where publishers can find revenue

2005-11-22T18:08:00.000-08:00

Blast Podcast is a podcast hosting service where they help podcast publishers to get a bit income. There are two sides for the service. Publishers may sign up the service; while advertisers may join as well.

They will help you to manage both files and podcast feed on the one hand, while match you to potential advertisers, so you might get some money out of your content.

Free Managed Email Service offered by MSN

2005-11-21T17:23:00.000-08:00

Hosting email service could be a big trouble. Ever wanted to have a managed email instead of hosting on your own? Now you can enjoy the world class managed email service for free, since MSN open their Live Domain Services that allows you to use Hotmail as your corporate email service.

By pointing your domain to Hotmail, you can enjoy:
# Create up to 20 e-mail accounts within your domain
# Get a 250 MB inbox for each account (only for US users)
# Check your e-mail from any Web-enabled PC
# Junk e-mail filter protection using Microsoft SmartScreen technology
# Virus scanning and cleaning of e-mail
# Seamless access with MSN Messenger, MSN Spaces, etc.

Extended Reading:
Windows Live Domain Service Review (WebLeOn's Blog) (Chinese)

neobe Backup: Online Backup solutions

2005-11-16T09:01:00.000-08:00

neobe Backup is a startup in France. They offer various package for you to do automatic backup of your files. Your files will be hosted in a secure server with 128-bit encryption.

They have a free package with 32MB web space for you to trial their service, so you might sign up here.

Free Hosting specifically for MP3

2005-11-15T18:01:00.000-08:00

MP3-Host.com is a hosting service designed specifically for MP3 fies. You may upload a not-bigger-than-10MB MP3 files every week. 500MB bandwidth is assigned for each file.

But if you are willing to pay US$4.99 per month, you will get 100MB storage, unlimited weekly file quota plus 5GB bandwith per month.

Revver: Share videos and get paid

2005-11-15T17:56:00.000-08:00

Revver. Yet another video hosting service. It seems that they impose no limitations to files to upload.

The most "interesting" things about the service is it will add a small video ad after your video. So, if your video is played, they and you will both get ads dollars. The more your videos play, the more money you get.

goowy 2GB storage

2005-11-14T19:52:00.000-08:00

goowy offers not only 2GB free web spaces for hosting your stuff, but also a host of web applications, including email, scheduler and address books, and even games, allowing you to organise your life well.

To facilitate the use of their service, goowy provides a widget-based applet "goowy desktop beta".

Yashi: Video Hosting for Free

2005-11-14T14:20:00.000-08:00

Yashi is yet another free video hosting servicee. Like Zippyvideos, it offers 20MB per file quota to registered users and 10MB for non-registrants.

But my experience told me the connection of Yashi is not stable enough to view video smoothly. Anyway, it can be the connection problem on my side.

Yashi supports tagging, but i don't like the way it treats tags. I cannot find a tag via put it on an URL, like what del.icio.us or Flickr do. Instead, it uses a Tag ID to identify various tags.

Free Trial for Podcast Hosting Service

2005-11-12T16:50:00.000-08:00

When you think of podcasting, do you think it is a big trouble to find a good hosting spaces for your MP3 files? Now you might test drive PodcasterHosting.com for 30 days.

They offer 1GB spaces for your audio files plus a web-based management tool. Recently, they added the iTunes tags so your podcast can be listed on Apple's iTunes database.

After the trial period, only $20 a month allows you to keep their service for you.

SeeHaHa: Video Hosting for Mainland China

2005-11-11T20:12:00.000-08:00

SeeHaHa is a video hosting service in China. There are a lot of video hosting service on the Web, but China people might love this one, not only because of its Chinese user interface, but also the connection speed inside Mainland China out-racing overseas providers.

Even you might not want to upload files, you may subscribe their latest video RSS feed to video interesting movies.

5Gigs.com offer high bandwidth hosting

2005-11-11T08:25:00.000-08:00

Looking for big web hosting space? 5Gigs.com may help. They offer 100MB web space with 5GB bandwidth. Your pages are not forced to survived with banners or pop-ups. What's more:

1 MySQL database & PHPMyAdmin

5 POP3 email accounts with webmail

FTP access

Megaupload

2005-11-09T01:50:00.000-08:00

Megaupload is just another file hosting. What makes it different from other services is the spaces allocated to each file. You are able to upload a 250MB file at maximum!

BubbleShare: Share Photos with audio description

2005-11-08T22:30:00.000-08:00

BubbleShare is a nice photo sharing app. It not only allows you to upload photos there without bandwidth or storage limit, but also record a 30-sec sound clip attaching to a photo, which make the service very different from other photo sharing service. Other great features include RSS and downloading entire album.

More important, you don't need to register to use the service!

Free File Hosting List

2005-11-01T17:28:00.000-08:00

Google Hacks makes use of a search query to create this "Updated Free File Host List". Brilliant! So you might visit here if you have something to host!

Putfile hosts your media files.

2005-10-31T04:00:00.000-08:00

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.

Free Web and Email Hosting Service, for charity only.

2005-10-27T19:57:00.000-07:00

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

2005-10-27T19:35:00.000-07:00

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.

FreeSQL.Org: Free Database Hosting For Developers

2005-10-23T18:40:00.000-07:00

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!

450MB.com Free Hosting

2005-10-20T06:27:00.000-07:00

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.

GetFile: Russian File Hosting Service

2005-10-19T03:50:00.000-07:00

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.

WebDrive maps FTP Location as your Local Storage Space

2005-10-18T03:03:00.000-07:00

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.

100MB Free DeluXe Host

2005-10-16T18:37:00.000-07:00

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.

gDisk: Gmail storage space on Mac OS

2005-10-14T10:51:00.000-07:00

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.

HostRave: Free and Ad-Free Web Hosting

2005-10-13T05:33:00.000-07:00

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

2005-10-13T04:07:00.000-07:00

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.

Dropload hosted 100MB files for 7 days

2005-10-12T02:47:00.000-07:00

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

2005-10-12T01:26:00.000-07:00

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.

FileFront: Thematic File Hosting Service for Gamers

2005-10-11T06:32:00.000-07:00

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

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

2005-10-10T04:32:00.000-07:00

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.

Comprehensive Free Web Hosting Directory

2005-10-09T19:10:00.000-07:00

"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

2005-10-09T06:54:00.000-07:00

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.

ImageVenue: JPEG image hosting

2005-10-08T16:53:00.000-07:00

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.

2005-10-08T16:41:00.000-07:00

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?