Was not sure where to put this topic, so sorry if I have placed it in the wrong place. Basically i am new to file hosting. I want to upload my movies and mp3's to use for my website but need a host to do so. I hear you can do online file hosting and server hosting? Does anyone know of any good free file hosts which will allow me to use the files on my website and is reliable? Also is it possible to set up a server from my home and just host the files on there? I am new to this so i do not understand fully but i have a spare computer which can host files if this helps. Many thanks for all help recieved in advance it is greatly appreciated.
Hi, Hosting files is not as simple as putting files on your hard disk, when you upload your mp3 and movies on your host, you are risking your host's bandwidth. Take this as a simple bandwidth computation: Say you have 100mb bandwidth, you have an mp3 that is 5mb, you got 10 people downloading that mp3 file: 10 people X5 mb mp3 file ------------ 50mb used up bandwidth You are now left with 50mb only for your entire site operation. Unless you are ready to spill out good amount of money and is willing to take risk (legally due to copyright) on mp3, then get a reliable hosting from lunarpages or the likes. If you are not that picky, you may upload your files to turboupload.com as zipped or one by one, videos you can upload to either youtube or revver.com or metacafe, then copy the video code into your website. If you do not wish to share your videos, mislabel them as numbers or whatever, those videos will just get lost in piles of videos and will only be found by accident because they dont have keywords pertaining to them. You can now simply provide people links to your files. Hope this helps