This is a site people does not know as it deserves to !
It's simple : You can upload any file you want (50Mb limit, but split archives are allowed) without even needing to register !
How ? Simple : at the main page there are 2 small boxes : Chose and Upload ! First you chose wich file you want to upload, and then you click upload and it will be uploaded ! After that you will get the file's link and a destroy link, wich means that if you want to erase the file, you should clik that link !
If another person wants to download your file, you give them the file's link, they click it, and then they have to chose between 2 ways of downloading it : Free and Premium ! For a Premium account you will have to pay !
The differences are :
Download Speed : Slow vs Fast;
Support For Download Accelerators : No vs Yes;
Support for resuming downloads : No vs Yes;
Download without hour-limits : No vs Yes;
Downloads start instantly : No (for this one you will have to wait 10 seconds before you are reserved a download ticket and then you get the link) vs Yes;
Max. parallel downloads : 1 Vs Unlimited;
Extra slots, if servers are full : No vs Yes
RapidShare URL-Checker : No vs Yes
RapidShare Direct-Downloads : No vs Yes
Days without any downloads, until uploaded files are deleted : 30 vs 90

It may seem that the free download is a waste of time, but... it's actualy pretty good ! the only thing is that you have to do to download... is : click free... wait for 10 seconds till you get the link, and then download the file at a reasonable download speed ! You can upload as many files if you want, but there is a certain limit concerning the number of downloads per hour (2 or 3) !
I'm not a fan of german sites... but this one is in english... so in my point of view it has a 9/10 because it's usefullness !

IF you have a permium account, if people download files you upload, you get premium points you can use to create another premium account, it's pretty neat really. But if you don't have premium, it could be a hassle with all the downloading limitations =[

file download limit for free is accually based how much you download (50 megs) and premium account is definetly worth the money you spend on it

All these Website is very bad and not giving u the suitable bandwith to download the files u need.

BUT: rapidshare is definitively one of the better bad sites.
yousendit.com (1GB filesize limit) is a big bluff, the speed is really bad and you need to download an download program from their website, which is not available on macintosh. (if you dont have it the download will abort for some strange reason).
does anyone know something in between? i would like to have like 100 Megs on some server where I can upload by FTP, because this is most convenient.

greets,
ruben

I don't like RapidShare that much because of the download limitations that some of you mentioned earlier. I usually go to YouSendIt or other similar services like it. The speed is pretty decent actually and the only downside with YouSendIt is that it expires after 7 days I think.

Not sure what you mean about a program you need to download to use it. I don't recall having to download a program in order to do the upload of files.

Why don't you just host files on your own webspace, rather than using these terrible file download/upload sites?
I really don't like these sites, all the ones I've used have been reeaaallllyyy sslllooowwww... and there are so many ads, and things telling you to pay for thier service, etc
I think they're all a big con, seeeing as you cuold host them yourself in less time, with less hassle and a faster download speed, without having to look at a load of ads.

But, that's just my opinion, I'm sure you all think differently

Well, considering the fact that you can store UNLIMITED files... it's better than hosting it at my own site, wich is 90% full almost all the time, because i use a free-hosting service, and i guess 80-90% of the internet users are using a free hosting service, if at all ! I said that this is a very good site because it is FREE ! And they have to compesate the fact that you don't pay for this to keep the site up !



And yes, YousendIt it's a very good alternative to this site beacause you can download/upload the files faster, but after 7 days the files are deleted, and it could be quite disturbing sometimes.... !

You misunderstood me.
What I was *****ing about You Send It was not that you need a prog to upload, but when you d o w n l o a d.
You are not forced to do so, but when I tried to download a file a friend send me on my Mac, the download always broke down after 6 MB (of 200) and I could not resume it, because it pretended to be finished. Pretty annoying. Then they supply a download app which works around that bug, but it only works on windows and I hate to download extra apps, which such little use. Especially if I have to emulate ***** windows to use them...

I have to agree with gamalocka. These sites will urge you to go premium SO BAD. And yes... we're at a severe disadvantage when doing this. People are getting greedier and greedier. I wish people would just try to make the payments cover the server maintenance and a LITTLE bit to support themselves. At least be humble, guys