Uploading pictures, clips or other files to a webserver

[Wilbert]

Some webservers for uploading pictures, clips and other files.

Uploading pictures:
http://www.imageshack.us/ (up to 1 MB)

Uploading pictures, clips and other files:
http://www.mediafire.com/ (up to ... MB)
http://www.rapidshare.com/ (up to ... MB)
http://www.savefile.com/filehost/ (up to 60 MB)
http://www.putfile.com/ (up to 10 MB)
http://www.badongo.com/ (up to 500 MB)
http://fileho.com (limit ?)
more: http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=129613

[unskinnyboy]

This is the master list of all free image hosting sites:
http://www.free-webhosts.com/free-image-hosting.php

Browse thru and take your pick. :)

EDIT: a few more file hosting sites

http://www.yousendit.com/ send upto 1 GB
http://www.filecabi.net/ (10MB limit)
http://www.filecabin.com/ (3MB limit)
http://www.spacepur.de/ (200MB limit, they say "Eroticsites desired", not sure what that means though)
http://www.megaupload.com/ (500 MB limit, damn slow though IME)
http://www.mytempdir.com/ (25 MB limit)
http://www.simple-share.com/ (they don't mention the size limit)

[unskinnyboy]

I have been using this little tool (just 295 KB) called Imageshackert for quite some time now and wanted to share this with you. This is an Imageshack uploader tool and is quite fast and a big timesaver.

Website - http://buggyashell.nl/progs/imageshackert/ (in Dutch)
Download link - http://buggyashell.nl/progs/imageshackert/download/ (software is in English).

Extract the imageshackert.exe from the zip file and put it in a folder (e.g: C:\Program Files\Imageshackert), now put a shortcut to this to your Desktop or Quick Launch bar (I have the shortcut on my QL bar).

Launch the app and set the options as below:
http://img158.echo.cx/img158/6355/isert44ar.png

The app:
http://img158.echo.cx/img158/3034/isert2ph.png

Browse and select the file, and click 'Host it':
http://img158.echo.cx/img158/8002/isert23pg.png

The file gets hosted and the url also copied to clipboard, the only thing left to do is to paste it into the forum between the [IMG] tags! DONE!
http://img158.echo.cx/img158/941/isert30kf.png

Since we all do a lot of image hosting, I hope you find this as useful as I did.

[animeultima]

www.usmanbiz.com upload: 1gig - 1 gigabyte space 5 gigs bandwidth (free)

[unskinnyboy]

www.usmanbiz.com upload: 1gig - 1 gigabyte space 5 gigs bandwidth (free)
Where? All I can see is a weird page with lot of logos? and this is a web hosting companies' site? Also I didn't see any free options there. Is this some scam? Looks dodgy.

[Shinigami-Sama]

wow
that has to be one of the worst webspace deals ever too..
and I didn't see the free thing either

[Zyphon]

@unskinnyboy

Have you ever used the ImageShack QuickLoad tool >here<? (http://reg.imageshack.us/content.php?page=quickload)

Once installed all you have to do is right-click on a picture and then select"ImageShack Quickload." to upload to ImageShack.

It requires MS Framework.NET to work though.

Just wondered if anyone has used it seems like a neat little tool and a breeze to use. ;)

[Wilbert]

@animeultima,

Is there free hosting on that site or not?

[MTM]

After much search :( on the site , I found the following : link (http://www.usmanbiz.com/free-hosting.htm).

Regards,
MTM.

[danpos]

Just wondered if anyone has used it seems like a neat little tool and a breeze to use. ;)

I've installed and used it and one really does the life more easy for me when I need hosting some picture.

http://www.geocities.com/pcdanpos/smilies/cheers.gif

[unskinnyboy]

@animeultima,

Is there free hosting on that site or not?
I don't think so. That guy was probably trying to fish for customers from amongst gullible people. Please remove that link if possible.

@unskinnyboy

Have you ever used the ImageShack QuickLoad tool >here<? (http://reg.imageshack.us/content.php?page=quickload)

Once installed all you have to do is right-click on a picture and then select"ImageShack Quickload." to upload to ImageShack.

It requires MS Framework.NET to work though.

Just wondered if anyone has used it seems like a neat little tool and a breeze to use. ;)
Thanks man. Looks good, will try this out.

[Shinigami-Sama]

imageshack has lack listed a couple of my man forums, so thats kinda usless for some, but it hasn;t blacklisted doom9 yet so thats good :)

[Wilbert]

I don't think so. That guy was probably trying to fish for customers from amongst gullible people. Please remove that link if possible.
No, he wasn't. Please check the link MTM posted (free hosting: 1 GB with banner, and 512 MB without banner). Looks fine to me.

[SeeMoreDigital]

I can't say I've had any good experiences downloading files hosted via "rapidshare"...

Everytime I log onto their "free" service I'm told the following: -

http://img235.imageshack.us/img235/4878/rapidshare7ub.png


Cheers

[unskinnyboy]

@SMD, 62.254.0.34 is the IP address of an NTLWorld web proxy cache. In most international (or UK based) forums, if you search for the IP 62.254.0.* (hostname - nott-cache-??.server.ntli.net) via the vBulletin/phpBB AdminCP, you will see many users for the same IP address. Each of those IP belongs to an NTLWorld gateway, which sorts of hides your real IP address from the outer world (not sure if this is the primary purpose of WPCs though, haven't seen this issue anywhere in NTSC land till now) - good in a way in that it offers some amount of privacy protection, bad in a way in that if a website decides to ban/blacklist one of these IPs, many people gets affected.

More detailed/useful info - http://homepage.ntlworld.com/robin.d.h.walker/cmtips/trancache.html

[SeeMoreDigital]

Thanks...

This sort of thing is way over my head but your explanation has helped tremendously!

Do you know how/why "Premium Account" holders are not affected by the same limitation.... Not that I'm going to buy one!

Would it be worth our while if some of us Doom9 members pooled some money together and bought some additional web server space, so members could host "test files" of up to, say 10MB over a short period?


Cheers

[unskinnyboy]

If you look at the RapidShare FAQ (http://rapidshare.de/en/faq.html), they have given a lucid explanation for this:


Your system complaints about that I am already downloading files or that I have already downloaded too much. But I did not download anything! Whats wrong there?

Our system checks your IP-address in order to count the downloads. If you are getting this message and you really did not download anything, then you are using a proxy-server, which is used by other people as well. Even if you have no proxy-server set up in your configuration, there are providers who put transparent proxy-servers between you and the net. Even if you are completely sure that you have no proxy-server attached, you are wrong. Compare the IP-address of the error-message with your real internet-IP. Those will differ. We only see your Proxy-IP. But what can you do? You have to disable this proxy-server. If you are not able to disable the proxy-server, we can only suggest you to get a Premium-account. Premium-users are recognized by cookies, not IP. Unfortunately we cannot disable our IP-check, else people would download so much that we would have to close down this service.
Now how to get around this?

The easiest way is to use an anonymous proxy. A little bit of googling will give you plenty of proxy lists, but most of them are snail-slow, if not already defunct within a few hours of getting listed. I poked around a bit more for a less painless method and I found this (http://www.00de.de/archive/topic/21239-1-rapidshare-with-ntl-england-help.html) page. If you read the thread, you can see a couple of workarounds suggested. Worth trying.

Us Doom9'ers buying webspace is not going to be of much use. Who will have access? Who controls the access? Also, you can't really go around and police the uploads, user A wants to upload a file of 10 MB, but alas no space left etc. Not to mention possible legal issues if the webspace thingy gets associated with Doom9, since this can also be interpreted as file-sharing (!!). If needed, there are many other alternatives to Rapidshare, so you are better off using them..namely YouSendIt.com + the others listed in the beginning of the thread.

[SeeMoreDigital]

Us Doom9'ers buying webspace is not going to be of much use. Who will have access? Who controls the access? Also, you can't really go around and police the uploads, user A wants to upload a file of 10 MB, but alas no space left etc. Not to mention possible legal issues if the webspace thingy gets associated with Doom9, since this can also be interpreted as file-sharing (!!).Perhaps such files could be policed by the moderators... in much the same way small "bmp, doc, gif, jpe, jpeg, jpg, pdf, png, psd, txt and zip" attachments are done now.... However, unlike the afore mentioned files, each video or audio file would be deleted automatically after two or three days!

And thanks for the link ;)


Cheers

[animeultima]

hey, i just completely forgot about this post. I do not work for the site, and i could care less if they shut down. Dang! I would have told y'all if I remembered. I was looking for another post and couldn't find it so i did a search of posts i made, and came across this. haha. They have like 1 gig of space and 5 gigs of bandwidth. They supposidly have a plan with unlimited space and unmetered bandwidth. My cousin has a site with that and it is doing good for him. I wish he would let me use it for anime but he doesn't want to take any chances with my stuff. So he says I got to get my own. :(

[Backwoods]

www.uploadhouse.com

[bugmenotwillyou]

thanks for the nice info

[ShAQ]

I've googled to find other list/systems where to upload images for free. I found http://blog.t00lz.de/index.php/2005/09/13/mal_eben_eine_grafik_hochladen while googling. The Site shows the following picture hosters:

0com.net
2and2.net
bilder-hoster.de
desearch.net
directupload.net
fapomatic.com
file-upload.net
freepichosting.info
imagehigh.com
imageshack.us
imageshark.ath.cx
imagevenue.com
imgholder.com
imgspot.com
theimagehosting.com
uploadengine.com
uploadimages.net
uploadhouse.com
uploadx.net
xs.to


I am currently not sure which hoster allows what size in mb for images. But maybe you will find out it yourself. ;)

[Shinigami-Sama]

I don't think using fapomatic would be the best idea with all the adverts on it, and the type of adverts but good job on the google

[w0rd™]

my imageshack links dont work, why?

[Shinigami-Sama]

imgshack likes to block quite a few domains

[w0rd™]

ok, so i shouldnt use imageshack with doom9?

[CWR03]

ok, so i shouldnt use ImageShack with doom9?
Unless it's a very recent occurrence, imageshack has not blocked doom9.org; in fact, does ImageShack even know where the link is when it's clicked?

[SeeMoreDigital]

Some time ago I noticed a few sections on this forum did not allow you to view "linked-to" images....

Which section of the forum were you trying to post in w0rd™?


Cheers

[w0rd™]

the dvd&svcd > ifo/vob editors section.
basically just uploaded to imageshack and used the link it provided, but its just blank where the image should be, so i just used the forum image attachment.

[w0rd™]

that post you just did in my thread, am i meant to see a picture there? because i cant see anything, could it be my end, although i cant see why that would be.... :confused:

[SeeMoreDigital]

Strange.... Can you see this: -

http://img506.imageshack.us/img506/3333/imagetest1ua.png

[w0rd™]

no, i cant see any image

[CWR03]

It must be on your end, then - the image SeeMoreDigital posted reads ""Image Test - Don't Panic." You may have your security set to block embedded images.

[Shinigami-Sama]

if you're useing FF1.5 it sometimes doesn't show all the pictures
try refreshing, or if it's in table or frame refresh the frame, but I"m more inclined to be with the securty settings

[w0rd™]

im using ff1.07, and your right, went and checked some settings, and "load images for the originating web site only" was checked.
It was totally my fault, as ive never had this problem before, as that option comes unticked by default, but i played around with it a few weeks ago, and forgot to untick it :p

thanks for reminding me, problem fixed

:thanks:

sorry for troubling you SeeMoreDigital.

[Richard Berg]

If you don't mind boring old FTP, click the link in my signature. Not for permanent use -- I clean it out every month or so -- but should work for most Doom9 stuff. PM me with problems (quota full, etc.)

[Shinigami-Sama]

once I get my act together my hosting provider just gave me uber space upgrades, AKA 4tb bandy <.<
so I"ll see about geting a ftp spot set up for here

[SeeMoreDigital]

Thanks guys ;)

[Shinigami-Sama]

now invite only
pm for details

[lotusdog]

that shackert thing app is way cool thanx terabyte!

[check]

Well, I'm sick of:

links to rapidshare
slow turkish webhosts
pending attachments
bad webhosting in general

so I've set up my own upload script here: http://files.project357.com/
It accepts almost all filetypes and has a (hopefully) nice file browser built in. Not much more to it, enjoy!

[allo]

www.veoh.com unlimited video hosting

[smok3]

anyone has a good free ajax http uploader script handy? (btw, why dont you ppl just install a small http or ftp server on your home computer?)

[SeeMoreDigital]

anyone has a good free ajax http uploader script handy? (btw, why dont you ppl just install a small http or ftp server on your home computer?)Probably because most peoples ISP's offer very slow "upload" speeds compared to their "download" speeds.

[sh0dan]

Wow - I really wonder why no-one has mentioned Google pages. You can upload 100MB with all extensions and link them with no limitations.

http://pages.google.com/

[HyperHacker]

I would highly recommend avoiding Rapidshare, and perhaps Imageshack too. There are a number of other general file hosting sites listed in this thread, and from what I've seen Photobucket is decent for images.

Specific reasons:
Imageshack: Hey, this image is expired/you're using too much bandwidth/there's no such image/we don't like you/it's Tuesday, so instead of your image, here's an ad! Also, people always just blindly copy their code that makes the image a link back to their site, which is annoying.

Rapidshare: Downloading is as simple as closing a few popups (BTW, buy a premium account!), selecting Free (hey you should get a Premium account), closing some popups (did I mention we have Premium accounts?), waiting for a timer to count down for no real reason (did you know Premium accounts allow you to do advanced things like downloading files?), closing a popup or two (why don't you have a Premium account yet?), receiving an error message in German (dude you should have a Premium account!), and repeating this process about 17 times (why not get a Premium account?). More than likely (PS: buy a Premium account), you won't be allowed to use the free account at all (maybe you should try a Premium account), because even though you haven't used their site in months (omg go get a Premium account!), you've already downloaded 23432MB in the last 2 days (FYI, Premium accounts are great!).

If you must download from Crapidshare, you can use Proxomitron to kill the download timer (which is simply a Javascript counter); I'd post the filter I use, but they've probably changed their code since I last used it; it's pretty simple to figure out anyway. However, you'll still have to hit Back and Download over and over 17 times until you actually get a download instead of an error message.

[foxyshadis]

Imageshack's other big problem: Their servers go up and down all the time, it's too unreliable since they put all the load-balancing right into the link. More than a few pics have been posted here that were unreachable for a day or two. Haven't seen photobucket have that sort of problem, or the other image hosts.

[sillKotscha]

here are my 2 recommendations for file sharing...

for general files:

Wiki upload (http://www.wikiupload.com/)

I highly recommend this service!! a possible file upload up to 5GB - really a great side!!

for images:

Free Image Hosting (http://www.freeimagehosting.net/)

very stable and reliable hosting side - lean and clean layout and all usual image filetypes are supported.

[lsw0794]

why not use rapidshare?

[kalia]

well, you simply can't 'share' rapidshare stuff unless the user on the other end has an account themselves. on one hand the service is super fast and the quality is generally high, but you can't exactly 'share' as easy as you'd like. http://www.photopile.info/img/c/8.gif

[smileBhappy]

don't know if anyone has already considered this but you can get some very cheap shared hosting deals, for $3 a month or so its worth looking into

[parsifal]

I think that MediaFire (http://www.mediafire.com/) deserves a mention in the opening post, wouldn't you say... ?

[neuron2]

I think that MediaFire (http://www.mediafire.com/) deserves a mention in the opening post, wouldn't you say... ? Yes, added. Thanks for pointing it out.

[Yobbo]

I always use sendspace (http://www.sendspace.com/) (300MB limit).

[mariush]

I'd like to mention http://drop.io

You can create free "drops" of data, which are basically virtual folders with 100 MB of free space, then you can add files into that space and give the folder link to people.

It uses Amazon S3 storage so it should be pretty fast to most people.

ps. sorry, didn't realize this was an old thread and the guy above me was just a link spammer

[Dogway]

I saw once in this forum someone who uploaded his pics to a image hosting web where you could do mouseover to check the frames differences. Does someone remember that?

edit: Yes, that one, Thank you!

[Boolsheet]

This one: http://comparescreenshots.slicx.com/ ?