I don't know how much financial longevity the hosting company will have but DivShare will provide unlimited hosting of files. This seems like a great place to go for sharing large files instead of using email although, until I find out more about the company, I'll not be hosting my precious snaps on their yet. Thanks to Allan for the tip - his blog is full of useful tech tidbits.
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Hi Ewan,
Looks like a great idea, I wonder how they make money. But... my second attempt, the first lost the connection somehow, uploading a 640 x 480 jpg is still running after 15 minutes, there may be such a thing as too much publicity;-)
Posted by: John | January 08, 2007 at 05:30 PM
I have been using Mediafire (http://www.mediafire.com) which is the same sort of service. I can't work out how they make their oney either. For as long as they are willing to do the business then I am happy to use it!
Posted by: Gordon McKinlay | January 09, 2007 at 09:17 AM
I don't see this model working for these smaller guys. I go back to the "the world only needs 5 computers" theory. In that 5, I would expect Amazon S3, and Google to figure largely. S3 have set the benchmark at 15c per gig, and I feel I can rely on them.
Posted by: Colin Henderson | January 10, 2007 at 04:56 PM
I agree that there's a limit to how many providers for this there can be. If it's free we've got to have reassurance that our data is safe which requires some form of profits. Google gives that, this product I'm less sure.
Posted by: Ewan McIntosh | January 10, 2007 at 05:17 PM