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Maybe you have ever needed upload a file from your computer to the Internet, to save a copy “in the cloud”, to show it to a friend, to put it in a forum…

And, unless you own a web hosting, you will need another one (¡viva la obviedad!) to upload it.

In this post I will tell you my favourite webpages for hosting files, of all kinds, or specially images.

I’ve tried many, uploading and downloading files, and I’ve seen very good sites, and others not so. The most known aren’t always the best.

Am I jabbering? Probably, so let’s start.

4shared

A good-looking page without ads or popups. Among its good points, the organization of the uploaded files is perfect to show your virtual folder to your friends, for them to see your images or listen to your audio without downloading anything. Of course, you can upload any other sort of file. A bad fact is that I hardly ever get to upload any file, but that’s my horrible uploading speed.

At the downloads you can add a description of the file, and write/receive comments. There’s a short waiting time before downloading a file, that depends on the size of the file, but it’s not any problem. It haven’t given me any error at downloading, unlike other webs as Rapidshare or Megaupload, which I definitely don’t recommend.

Box

The simplicity, made file hosting. A light and powerful web, with advantages and disadvantages. It always had worked quicker than other webs for me when uploading, but the free accounts can’t upload files over 20MB. However, if you don’t want to upload files over that size, it’s very recommended, since it doesn’t show popups, or waiting time before downloads, and multimedia files can be viewed without downloading them.

Mediafire

Good, pretty and simple. Unlike in Box, you can upload files over 20MB using a free account, but there are no ads or waiting times. YOu can organize, as in other webs; your files in folders, change permissions, and create a visit URL for your personal folder (mediafire.com/username).

When downloading from these sites, we could find a file divided in several parts… Do we have to download them one by one, link by link? Well… there are some progra like JDownloader which can do that task instead of us. I will talk about this program other day.

Also, there are other hosting webs exclusively for images (or sometimes for videos too, but I think that can be done perfectly by YouTube), in these you can’t upload any other files, but they have many features and possibilities for images. My choice for image hosting is Tinypic, althought I’ve already tried others, as Imageshack, Photobucket or Picasa (well… this last is kinda special).

Tinypic

At the begining I liked it because it was simple y fast, the most important in this sort of webs. You open the page, select the file, upload the image and get the URL. But when you create an account, it gets much better. Your images are stored in a personal folder, which can be shared through URL. Also, you can create albums to organize your photos, tag them to find them easily… and modify them! Yes, it’s got an incorporated image editor to retouch that photo in which you have red eyes, or put a text bubble. Another good point is that images URLs are very tiny, so it’s easy to manage them. Maybe, the name of the page comes from this fact.

Goodbye!