File Hosting Services

There are a number of free online file hosting services which would be useful for putting up files like .pdf and .ppt files. Most of these sites do not have great navigational or guarantees of file protection. Google does not have its own file hosting service, however many people use Google Pages (or more recently Google Sites) to host their files for free. There is 100MB of space available.

This website has a bunch of free file hosting websites. Most of them (probably all of them) require that you create an account with an e-mail address and their privacy policies can be a little ambiguous as to ownership of materials, guarantees and reliability. It would be best if we would host only non-copyrighted material, or material that is meant to be spread around without consequence.

Information about hosting files on blogger or other Google services can be found here.

Secure FTP severs:

Some files require a more secure setting (copyrighted files or other sensitive information) and thus would not be well uploaded onto a regular file hosting site. These types of files my require a Secure FTP sever to host these files. FTP stands for "File Transfer Protocol" and is used to send files over a network. FTP servers generally require more maintenance than web based file hosting in order to keep the server running and ensure its security. For a list of free FTP Servers click here, and for some FTP server tutorials click here.