/file hosts/ - long term storage edition

Seeing a lack of a thread dedicated to file hosts and file hosting services, I decided to make one myself. post any and all file hosting websites here, especially free websites that give you infinite hosting time(like anonfiles, zippyshare etc.) I feel like the current best anonfiles replacements are: https://anonymfile.com/ - uploads can be stored indefinitely, max file size is 5GB https://gofile.to/ - clone of the above https://filehaus.su/ - infinite storage, max file size is a whopping 300GB https://buzzheavier.com/ - infinite storage, max file size is infinite, claims to be privacy friendly https://easyupload.io/ - 30 day storage, max file size 20GB https://transfert.free.fr/ - 7 day storage, max file size 10GB

>/file hosts/ It makes me very sad that you decided to use slashes in your thread subject. Slashes are for boards, not for threads.

>>78887 Cheers OP I'm curious, how would you implement something like this? Surely no one, even with sizable pockets, would use cloud storage for one of these services. My guess is >cloudflare or some other ddos protection service that hands off traffic to: >VPS for domain connection that hands off to: >the site owner's home, complete with fiber optics, a firewall router, DMZ, and a BUNCH of 14TB HDD drives >these 3 network nodes hopefully connected with a VPN like wireguard

>>78887 You forgot the best one, catbox.moe >>78892 Maybe you should lurk more, putting slashes in the subject field has been a cute little staple in imageboard culture for years. /file-hosts/, is not a board, true, but it's fun to pretend! >>78896 >The site owner's home Not the best idea for a multitude of reasons, but that's just my opinion

>>78896 >anonymfile.com >gofile.to >buzzheavier.com >easyupload.io point to Cloudflare IP addresses >filehaus.su >89.213.174.204 >Man Hosting GMB H SRL (AS215740) >Romanian hosting company >cheap storage plans, about 1€/TB/month >https://ihostart.com/ >transfert.free.fr >51.159.84.119 >Scaleway S.A.S. (AS12876) >https://www.scaleway.com/ >probably a proxy, storage expensive here Really makes you think why people operate these, e.g. gofile.to and anonymfile.com (which are exactly the same UI, A even links to G) have no way to make money: >GoFile / Anonym File is hosted on dozens of very powerful servers with high bandwidth. There is no restrictions on network speed. You download at the maximum speed of your connection. However, the service is necessarily limited in capacity since I finance the infrastructure myself. Data harvesting? Hobby project of some millionaire? Why two sites?

>>78897 >multitude of reasons Any reasons other than pizza, DCMA conflicts, random power outages, painting a target on your back for the feds, and limited bandwidth? That's all I can think of off the top of my head. Some of those might not even be issues. If I decided to run this service, I'd still consider having a fallback node or full clone/backup at my house. I can't get passed the thought of feeds ordering a registrar to belly up because 1 put of 84,000 sites did something nasty. >>78898 1€ a TB isn't as bad as I thought. Even after years of usage >lets say 1 TB is uploaded per day >365€ at the end of year 1 >double that to add redundancy >730€ a year Also not bad when a 14TB HDD costs over $300 and you dont need to worry about HW failures if you purchase addons protection. I think that'd be a cool hobby project if you had money to throw around. That's hardly even the price of a 2 week annual vacation. Perhaps the bigger question is, why would anyone create a service and price it like ihoststart?

i never used them, but there's Borg backup and rsync.net

>>78898 they're probably hobby projects, like anonfiles.com was(it also linked to multiple sites with the same UI, and those sites linked to others with the same UI and storage limits. all of them went down with anonfiles)

>>78919 Do you know any more of the lore behind anonfiles? Shy was it taken down? I remember visiting it once, but never used it

>nooo how can someone host files on the internet dont they know i read a tom clancey book and you get assassinated if u do that >nooo how can a file host go down people have to live forever and be interested in something forever!! stupid kids stfu

>>78943 Someone has a bad case of the Friday. Geez Louise.

>>78887 https://files.espiv.net/ - storage upto 90 days, max file size 250MB https://files.catbox.moe - infinite storage, max file size 200MB https://pomf.lain.la/ - infinite storage, max file size 1GB https://uguu.se/ - 3 hours storage time, max file size 64MB https://status.uguu.se/clones.html - some websites that use uguu on their servers https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1vrKixs_ItQlLnGK6_D22qP3NhRPiD8n7SATX81CGzzs/edit?gid=0#gid=0 - massive list of pomf clones

https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Pomf.se/Clones https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22pomf%22+file+upload&ia=web https://github.com/tsudoko/long-live-pomf/blob/master/long-live-pomf.md https://selfhosted.libhunt.com/pomf-alternatives https://web.archive.org/web/20230822071644/https://status.uguu.se/clones.html https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/191201/any-image-host-with-free-api-for-commercial-purposes more pomf clones

I dont know why my post looks automated. I will remove some advertisement words... nope... okay how about removing my entire post.. nope.. go fuarrrk yourself... okay, 2 hours later. let's try again... nope.. how about in the browser.. >>78958 >https://pomf.lain.la/ this guy is an inspiration. I am eager to be off work so I can learn more from reading his blogs. Check out his battlestation. Maybe one of the few non larpers with a setup like this

>>78961 Guy needs to get some hardwood flooring.

The acid test for file storage is leaving files on them for years without any usage of the account. If you go back, say, five years later and the account still works and the files are still there, it's a good storage site. The file content makes no difference if you encrypt them well. There are two commercial sites I have had this experience with. One is mediafire, the other is box. They were both free-tier accounts. That's all I know. YMMV.

https://mega.nz - infinite storage, max file size 15GB, requires an account. also has download restrictions https://mediafire.com - infinite storage, requires an account, max file size 1GB(can be increased)

>>78887 https://buzzheavier.com/ - infinite storage, no file size limit. can be a little slow https://file.io - 1 year storage, 2GB max file size limit https://toffeeshare.com/en/ - no file size limit, p2p transfer, only good for instant and quick transfers https://fmhy.net/file-tools#%E2%96%BA-file-hosts - list of other good file hosts

>>79083 https://fuarrrkingfast.co/ - buzzheavier clone, see above https://www.1024terabox.com/ - infinite file storage, 400MB file limit, 1TB free storage per account https://icedrive.net/ - 10GB free per account https://void.cat/ - runs on https://git.v0l.io/Kieran/void.cat/ https://multiup.io/

>>78887 I'm using kopia (with encryption, compression and deduplication enabled) with backblaze b2 storage for remote backups, pretty good cost wise. https://kopia.io/ https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-storage

>>79093 i don't trust backblaze

>>78887 https://0x0.st - while not a "long term", and maintained by a trannie, still it claims it keeps files at least within 30 days from the last access.

>>78967 Problem with these tests is that by the time years have passed, the site's policirs may have drastically changed for the worst. Ona can only upload the same files to 10 different hostsand hope for the best. Also, a little tip for anyone relying on these sites: enceypt your filrs, and provide the deceyption key on your personal site or smth.

>>79237 >Not allowed: application/x-dosexec, application/x-executable, application/x-sharedlib What reason is there to reject certain file headers? What can happen if you set permissions to 644 besides some random zero day? You accidentally fuarrrk up and execute something?

>>79300 im guessing its more of a legal thing. It would be annoying having to legally deal with people spreading malware, and I cannot think of a genuine usecase for sharing executables over an anonymous filehost.

>>79301 Hmm, I can't think of a reason for sharing them either, except for just need a quick, working area to drop a file, and pick it up on another device. I recently wrote my own file share for fun, and couldn't think of a reason to ban certain file types based on file extensions and headers. It feels naive to do so. Someone could just whoop your ass some other way. I also haven't header of self executing files before. https://pomf.lain.la/ doesn't seem to ban any file types. Maybe I will reach out to the creator.

>>78887 fu ckingfast.co doesn't allow you to upload without an account any good and fast alternatives?

I've written my own file hosting website and the bot activity is quite interesting. One keeps uploading the max amount of files per request, but the files are empty, 0 bytes. I don't understand why anyone would create such a thing. I've added a Nginx Geo Ip whitelist, and endpoint limits, so we'll see if that helps. If not, I'll have to start looking at Proof of Work or Cloudflare

>>79539 >I've written my own file hosting website I don't see any URLs in your post LARP

>>79539 compress the files, e.g. btrfs can do transparent file system compression, or let the app have a compression layer at file read/write clearly it's the glowies trying to shut it down so people use their file services instead don't use cloudflare for the love of all that is holy https://www.devever.net/~hl/cloudflare

>>79548 > https://www.devever.net/~hl/cloudflare this reads like some pseudo intellectual liberal seething over something because it's the cool thing to do. Their arguments to not use CF are fuarrrking sad

>>79549 Cloudflare is like cia it knows everything you do. No need to help it.

>>79549 Sad or not, I have experienced many of the discussed issues, including inability to visit many sites without JS, over Tor, or just getting stuck in infinite captcha loops even on clearnet. Cu ckflare (post filtered) has earned its name

>>79556 Well its great you were able to condense that entire seethicle down into 2 sentences. Cheers.

I like IPFS for its high speed, decentralization, and ease of use sharing files. https://github.com/ipfs/ipfs-desktop I don't see it being talked about much but Anna's Archive and Libgen use it

>>79549 he's right on all counts, which is why you're resorting to kindergartner tier name calling and ridiculing of the author's person, instead of refuting specific evidence and arguments made cloudflare does in fact have the capability to be a GPA and GAA, it terminates TLS and acts as a MitM for a massive portion of the web internally cloudflare and their glowing partners are probably thinking "bros how tf do we keep getting away with this"

https://trashbytes.net/ mirror of buzzheavier

>>79563 IPFS is derezzed in many places and by quite some providers. Probably. That's just my impression. I've seen some VPSes that explicitly derezzed it, at least.

>>79743 IPFS is not derezzed on a lot of otherwise censored ISPs and networks, though

>>79563 Most of the IPFS gateways are now either down or blocked. There's basically only ipfs.io and dweb.link left. Also just uploading a file to your node doesn't guarantee that it'll be fast to retrieve by other nodes, in fact, it's most often very sluggish. And if nobody pins the file, it gets garbage collected and it vaporizes into oblivion. Gateways are the culprit.

https://m1r.ai very short filenames but homepage is cool

>>80140 >very short filenames this is the tricky thing about most file shares. I think am arbitrary username and password OR the random URL would be better

>>78887 you can get a few GB's for free by signing up for the free ORACLE VPS rentry.co/oraclevps

>>81601 damn, pretty cool any more free vps tricks like this?

>>80108 Pinning services solve this. I just wish they weren't so expensive to use. Storacha uses Filecoin and is the cheapest as far as I know but its pricing is still not that great. I have a couple of terabytes of data I want to pin indefinitely and I like the idea of anyone being able to retrieve it from multiple providers in a decentralised fashion and pin it themselves. The monthly pricing to store a couple of terabytes of data still isn't really there though. I don't want to spend hundreds of dollars a month on this.

>>82258 I think fly.io and some other competitor also have free tiers.

>>82258 vultr also has a free tier I believe

I personally like Pixeldrain. Their free tier has been fine for everything I need it for (No hard storage limit, 120 day expiration, up to 20gb per file). The biggest downside is that there is a 6GB daily download limit, but there is a bypass you can use.

>>85145 No it does not. That's just a data gathering trap. You tell them about a project you're building and they will review your application for a free VPS. I made a project for real doctors, and they didn't even respond to my application.

Theoretically, what's stopping someone from just constantly re-uploading stuff that is about to expire? And what's stopping someone from just splitting up a 1TB archive into x amounts of 1GB chunks to make it fit? Will the file host jannies ban you?

>>85501 I hadn't even considered this. Nice brain flops dude

>>85501 people already split archives since it's easier to fix broken downloads, and the issue with reuploading is that you may need to update the url. expiration dates are meant to purge content nobody loves, this is why some hosts purge files after time passes *without any downloads*, if you love it it should not be an issue

https://github.com/public-apis/public-apis?tab=readme-ov-file#cloud-storage--file-sharing some good options here