I just finished editing my animation demo reel and I need a place to upload it so I´ll have a link to include in my e-mails to download it; anyone knows of a free web hosting provider that accepts files up to 10 Mb in size?
Youtube may seem like an obvious choice but I can´t openly distribute my reel, it includes copyrighted material from the studio I´m currently working at.
YouTube does give you the option of making your account private, at least as much as anything posted on the internet can be. I am not sure if the files get extra-compressed there though. Some of them don’t look so good.
Are you looking for a real web host or just a place to host files? You could try these guys:
I am not sure if you can make a private account, but it seems less likely that someone would simply stumble across your files here than on YouTube. A search for “free file hosting” or “free video hosting” turns up lots of sites that allow large files, but I don’t have personal experience with any of them.
Photobucket.com allows you to keep a private account and you can host vidoes up to 5 minutes in length for free accounts.
As for actual web hosts, I have never heard anything good about any of the free ones. It seems like a pay-for-hosting service would be the most secure, you could probably find something for $5 or $6 a month that would allow you to password protect your pages. These guys have a $5 a month “budget” plan that I think would allow that. You get 10GB traffic per month. My friends use them and they are pretty reliable and the control panel is not difficult to figure out.
Of course, you would also have to pay for a domain name if you take this route, and setting it up is more complicated. And I am not sure it would be so much more secure that it would be worth the cost to you. Obviously, once you upload the files you can’t absolutely guarantee only people you invite will get at them.
Good advice all around, but I settled down for a site at http://webng.com/, I just made an account and in a few minutes I had my video uploaded and hosted on the site; I´ll see if I can get the time to build a basic website some of this days.
I´m still scratching my head about the business model of this site; I haven´t had the time to look into it much, but there are no banners or ads so I wonder where they get their money back. :dubious:
This thread is better suited for IMHO.
I’ll move it for you.
Cajun Man
for the SDMB
Interesting. I just perused their site, and I can’t figure out the logistics of their business model either. No banners or ads, no sales associate model, no premium paid services of any sort, and no apparent affiliation to any larger corporate interest for which this site may act as a promotional model, and a privacy policy that eliminates the possibility that they’ll sell your contact information to partner companies. For all intents and purposes it seems to be just what it seems: A free and pretty comprehensive web hosting company with no ulterior motive. About the only thing that I can think of is that it’s being used for some sort of web metrics research or something, and that’s a stretch, since I can’t see what they hope to learn from the statistics there that they can’t learn anywhere else. Maybe it’s a test bed for in-house hosting software. They do state in their terms of service that they reserve the right to change those terms at any time, so maybe at some point in the future they may go pay when they’ve accumulated enough free members to promote themselves as more than a lightweight in the web hosting arena.
All things considered it looks pretty good. I think I’ll bookmark it for future use.
I’m going to use them some until they go broke…
Your candid bluntness is only matched by your intemperate rapacity. 
Funny thing that I came in here asking for help and I ended up providing a solution for other people.
Now I have to dust my web design days memories and see how to slap together a site worth looking at.
I just put up a simple page if I feel like it. I mostly use it for a online space I can hot link to.
I hate the ‘flicker’ and ‘snapshot’ type places and the we they do it. Makes things way slow and can’t do big K pictures if you want.
Anywho, thanks for the link.
If you want to display photos, i highly recommend PBase, even though it’s not a free service.
I have a basic account, which costs $23 a year for 400Mb of space. There’s no size restriction on the size of the images, only on the overall size of your account, so you can upload large pictures if you want. I think the design of the site, and the ability to change the look of your pages, craps all over Flickr and many other free photo sites.
Cool … but …
I don’t want a page or a look or anything.
*::: "Just the picture Ma’am, just the picture. :: * So I can link it is threads, email, web stories, just a hot link to a picture that serves it up fast.
For example: A picture of electric linemen working.
You can do that with PBase.
Here’s a picture from my collection.
The link doesn´t work, I had to hit enter on the adress bar to load the image.
Perhaps the biz model was to generate users and then sell it off to someone who might better turn it into a money maker. Here’s where that link goes now… ten years later:
Is anyone familiar with it?
I posted in another thread a few days ago about needing a host for my own use. Since then I have another need related to photos so I thought I might get this thread going again.
