Uploads are scanned with the BitDefender antivirus engine common document types can be previewed directly at MediaFire's site via a Flash-based previewer. MediaFire is useful if you have lots of files you want to distribute, as long as they're under 200MB each. These services may be more focused, but they also tend to offer the chance to share larger files. While there are currently a variety of cloud storage services out there, they were preceded by dedicated file-sharing services, whose main purpose was to allow people to upload and download files that were too large to send via email. Four are dedicated to sending and hosting large files in a corporate context ( MediaFire, RapidShare, ShareFile and YouSendIt), while the other six ( Box, Dropbox, Google Drive, Minus, SkyDrive and SugarSync) are more general, personal-use file-storage services that have mass distribution as an adjunct feature. In this piece, I examine 10 file-hosting services that can be used to distribute files to an audience via links or email. Nowadays, however, there's a bevy of free services that offer tons of storage and bandwidth. You could buy some web-hosting space and use that to distribute files on the fly to your co-workers and collaborators, you could burn a disc or copy the file to a USB drive and drop that in an envelope, or you could use that fabled legacy transport protocol, Sneakernet.
In the bad old days, if you wanted to distribute files that were too hefty for your email to handle, you had few choices. And the clunkiness of the whole process makes it hard to get real work done.
Uploads and downloads can be arbitrarily slow. Email attachments can get rejected, especially if you don't know what the upper limit on a file size is for sender or recipient. Remember the first time you tried to send a 4GB video file as an email attachment? Anybody who has tried to share a large file with a friend or colleague understands all too well to the problems that are involved.
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