# Free Web Storage **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 5, 2008, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-web-storage/455365 "2008-07-05T11:29:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2008, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-web-storage/455365/1 "2008-07-05T11:29:52Z")
Has anyone here used any of the free web storage sites you can find online? Sometimes it would be handy to have a place to temporarily make a very large file downloadable for my mates, and unfortunately my own webhost is stuck in 1999 and not offering much. I’m looking for multi-Gig space (1 or 2 only), that will only be up temporarily. And preferably free, because it won’t be a frequent thing I do, so even a nominal monthly fee is excessive. Does anyone have any recommendations, or anti-recommendations? ---
**Author:** ![xash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/c6cbf5/32.png) [@xash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xash)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2008, 9:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-web-storage/455365/2 "2008-07-06T09:24:18Z")
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**Author:** ![chappachula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@chappachula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chappachula)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2008, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-web-storage/455365/3 "2008-07-06T19:00:59Z")
what’s wrong with just using a Yahoo email account.? I keep emergency backups there as attachments to emails. ---
**Author:** ![Throatwarbler\_Mangrove](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8c91f0/32.png) [@Throatwarbler\_Mangrove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Throatwarbler_Mangrove)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2008, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-web-storage/455365/4 "2008-07-06T19:10:57Z")
I’ve had good luck with [steekr](http://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&ct=res&cd=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.steekr.com%2F&ei=bBhxSNGNBIKksAP4tKDpAg&usg=AFQjCNE62nQyuL8w1zp6ZhgsSGMQpMhhcg&sig2=OBJAI6Px748hhch5fh1L5A) . Most of the other file hosting services have odious restrictions on their free services, such as deleting files after a certain time period, limiting files to inconvenient sizes, limiting the number of downloads, etc. Steekr has none of these limitations. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2008, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-web-storage/455365/5 "2008-07-07T01:25:35Z")
[QUOTE=chappachula] what’s wrong with just using a Yahoo email account.? I keep emergency backups there as attachments to emails. [/QUOTE] I don’t know. Maybe nothing, I’ve never used a Yahoo email account so didn’t know it could be used as temporary file storage like that. [QUOTE=Throatwarbler Mangrove] I’ve had good luck with **steekr**. Most of the other file hosting services have odious restrictions on their free services, such as deleting files after a certain time period, limiting files to inconvenient sizes, limiting the number of downloads, etc. Steekr has none of these limitations. [/QUOTE] Thanks! That’s the kind of feedback I was after. I’ll check them out.