4Shared or other (free) file hosting

[acejavelin]

Well, some of you know I maintain a fairly large collection of Inter-Tel, Mitel, and ESI software and documentation that I am currently hosting on 4shared.com, but it has come to my attention that they are now requiring people to sign in/join their site to download those files even when I specifically give them the link (This is not a public collection, I must specifically give out the link to these files).

I really am not liking that people need to sign-up or login to download the files so I am looking for a site where I can host approximately 2GB of data (currently, but it is constant growing collection) that is secure, not searchable by the public, and doesn't have bandwidth restriction, but open to someone who has the specific link and doesn't require them to login or register (CAPTCHA or other pause is acceptable though).

I have been playing a bit with box.com with other projects, but it is capped at 5.0GB for free and has some bandwidth restrictions, so for now that would work OK but I am looking for a more permanent solution, any suggestions.

[ralph]

We're using dropbox for something similar.
I'm up to >5 gigs free at the moment.   I think the free stuff is capped at 16G but you can buy up to 100G.
You start out around 2 gigs and get more free space 500M for each dropbox off of sign up links you give them.
They don't need to sign up and can only get to the links you provide.

Sign up here:  If you sign up from here I get 500 more megs of free space <g>

Ralph

[markyb73]

I'd second dropbox 
Great service for hosting things, sharing etc etc...it just works!!!

[sarond]

Cubby which is in beta at the moment is looking very promising.
You can request an invitation from their website, it only took a day for mine to come through.

[acejavelin]

Actually have been playing with Dropbox (thanks ralph!), seems pretty decent. My other option right now is Google Drive, going to do some testing with that later this week, will let you know how it all works out.