Free file hosting - what are my options?

[noiseredux]

I have some things I'm working on for my blog which will benefit from having some files hosted. Nothing huge really. But I'm just curious what my options are besides upping things to mediafire or the like. Can anyone suggest anything good?

[Gamerforlife]

There is something called dropbox that I have been hearing good things about. It's like online storage for you and your selected friends where you can access their stuff and they can access yours. It's a members only sort of thing so it gives you some measure of control I guess.

Then there is bittorent of course. For similar things to mediafire, there's rapidshare, megaupload, depositfiles, filesonic, hotfile....I could go on and on LOL

[BRIK]

Dropbox is great I use it all the time, my blogs included. It should also be noted that anyone can view you files on the internet if you give it a public link, and you can keep whatever else you want private.
You can't make folders public links though, only files.

[AppleQueso]

dropbox is beautiful

[Czernobog]

I had a college instructor who swore up and down by dropbox. Around the time I was graduating he started having students use it to upload their video or fx projects so that they could pull them down while at school should anything dire happen, especially to their external drives. I've been planning on trying it for a while, but have been procrastinating.

[Hatta]

Dropbox is fine, just don't count on their encryption. If you consider your files public, or roll your own encryption, it'll do fine. OTOH, SpiderOak claims to do client side encryption, but their client is closed source so I don't know how much I believe that.

[noiseredux]

Dropbox is fine, just don't count on their encryption. If you consider your files public, or roll your own encryption, it'll do fine. OTOH, SpiderOak claims to do client side encryption, but their client is closed source so I don't know how much I believe that.

basically I just want a way to host some PDF's maybe some MP3's, etc on my blog.

[AppleQueso]

Dropbox is fine, just don't count on their encryption. If you consider your files public, or roll your own encryption, it'll do fine. OTOH, SpiderOak claims to do client side encryption, but their client is closed source so I don't know how much I believe that.

basically I just want a way to host some PDF's maybe some MP3's, etc on my blog.

dropbox will do fine for that

[noiseredux]

dropbox will do fine for that

and to clarify, I can set the files to public so that nobody has to sign in to dropbox to DL them right?

also, if a FOLDER cannot be publc -- can I zip a folder containing 3 files, and make that .zip file public?

[BRIK]

Nah they don't have to have Dropbox to see the files. Dunno about .zip files though.