Divshare – Free file hosting for mp3s and blog pictures

Posted on 04/03 by Andy Roberts

I think I can see this one spreading steadily through the blogs and social networking sites.

Divshare allows you to upload as many files as you like, up to 200Mb per file and then serves them up wherever you like for free, as text links, hotlinked from your blog or embedded as an mp3 player. And there’s a divshare uploader plugin for WordPress.org which makes it so easy to add pictures to a blog without incurring any bandwith or file quota charges, whilst keeping them all organised together under your divshare account, accessible from the dashboard. This would probably have some advantages over using flickr as a file hosting resource for blogs and wiki.

The embedded mp3 flash player could appear on millions of homepages or profiles in mySpace and similar environments, since the code for embedding is available to all who visit the song.

All in all, this confirms to me that we are undergoing a seachange in the pricing models for internet hosting, towards a position where disk space and bandwidth are no longer explicitly charged for. How that works out in terms of the extra electricity required to power the ever increasing number of processors and file servers I’m not too sure.

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7 Responses to Divshare – Free file hosting for mp3s and blog pictures

  1. Andy Roberts says:
    05/03 at 4:29 pm

    I think there is a way to feedback – they have a comments-enabled blog at http://blog.divshare.com/

  2. reinkefj says:
    05/03 at 4:20 pm

    DIVSHARE doesn’t accept the gmail+string.com email address and there’s no way to give them this feedback. You may want to consider that in recommending it. imho. fjohn

  3. Jas says:
    17/05 at 2:23 pm

    Try this service http://www.momupload.com, i’ve been using it for a long time and i can say that it is best one i’ve ever used before. Very nice and simple interface. Up to 300 mb per file and absoluterly free. And no limits.

    Hope this helps

  4. Andy Roberts says:
    17/05 at 3:52 pm

    momupload seems a bit crappy what with only supporting links to an html file, not the original jpeg, and then demanding a captcha input to view it?!

  5. Local Hosting says:
    03/06 at 11:37 pm

    Very impressive. I’ll have to bookmark divshare. I have tried momupload and I didn’t like it either (that’s how I found this blog post).

    Thanks for the lead.

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    24/04 at 11:00 am

    Here’s one more file hosting: http://www.shareator.com

    Thanks

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