Hi everyone i would like to host audio,video and image files,can anyone give me a suggestion which are the good host for media files,I think i would face storage problem if i host them at astahost.it should be like when i host my site at asta and place my whole site here and host the media file somewhere else.It should be like the users can play the videos on my site but they dont know that it exists on some other host or anywhere else except the site.Any suggestion for a good free host or a cheap one .

This post has been edited by richie: Jan 6 2007, 04:48 AM

Your best bet would be to go to filefront.com unlimited space and allow up to 1gb files. I been with almost 2 years haven't failed me yet. Best part it makes megaupload look pathetic.

Only downside is sometimes its takes forever to upload or download, but that would depend what time you download or which server you download it from. Usually I go somewhere in the middle to download files.

Putfile.com is rather nice also, not only you download files and obtain the codes for forums or for your html sites, but you also organize them in albums, on your page putfile.com/yourname are displayed thumbnails on which you click to see the image or the film you uploaded.
It's a nice alternative to astahost, unfortunately only for images and movies.

I guess the ones mentioned were nice and they have their qualities. I guess you can also try fileshack if you aren't satisfied with the above two as it has very good space and a fairly fast uploading speed.

I just clicked filefront, it is awesome, I would go with it,,definetely a good election...

i have checked filefront and it's great rather i perfer it more than the other sites i have been on
Putfile.com seems to be small comparing to filefront.com

i have always liked to support the xisto family and i would suggest imagefilez. its only got a 5mb limit, which is fine for smaller files. for larger files, im with saint-michael and suggest filefront

ImageFilez - http://www.imagefilez.com/

FileFront - http://uploadhosted.filefront.com/

there are always heaps of others and a good google search will turn up a heap of good places to go!

good luck
-jimmy

This post has been edited by Jimmy89: Mar 25 2007, 05:17 AM

I think, all those above mentioned sites, is only for file sharing by uploading them to server and giving download links to user!
Hot linking is not supported in those sites!
The users need to go to the site and wait till the counter reaches 0
and they need to click the download link!

But "richie" is asking for the server, where we can upload files like image, audio or video, wat ever it is, and we can simply embed them in to our websites!
like, <img src="http://remotesite.com/imageurl>

Many of those free file uploading sites wont support direct linking for video or audio files!
Try to use www.tripod.com and upload your files there. they will allow hot linking of media files ( but with some bandwidth limitations )

Many of the free web hosting sites, wont support hot linking of files which is having a size greater than 100 kb or 250 kb etc

I have to say that I would probably suggest using filefront, as they seem to do a really nice job with the files....

However, as has been mentioned they don't allow hotlinking of files, so they would be for download purposes only (i.e. you have a downloads section on your site, and would like to allow users to download files).

The downside to using these services, is that it takes a lot of work for your sites visitors to go to these sites and wait for the counter to reach 0 so that they can click on a link, view more ads, yet again wait, and finally be able to download the file.

skaffers.com has a file hosting feature that supports hot linking.