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  1. Nikon4life

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    Thanks for noting the reason for alternative to Mega - and that's a pretty reasonable price. WorkUpLoad is iffy with retention - not sure if they poop-can data after a hard-30 (following initial UL) or if it's 30-days from last download; and If it differs for free / registered users.

    There's other hosting sites as well based on items we've gotten from this forum (people with greater familarity using them might offer insight on this thread).

    As always - thanks to you guys running this site. A lot of moving parts . . . all in effort to providing stuff of interest.
     
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    I don't have any issues with the former but confirm those issues with the latter - edited Post #22 to reflect those observations.

    As stated previously - there's a shite-load of hosting sites out there amongst the International community - some of which actually pop up to harvest data under the guise of "The Cloud" - only to cave-in several months later - so caveat emptor or more appropriately "accipies quae attribuisti" - ya get what ya pay for - - - free is seldom so . . . thus the need for multi-layer pseudo-nyms as related to the likes of this forum . . .

    IOW - I agree with you . . . cheers.gif

    Here's a link to a video on 60 Minutes blabing a piece with Kim Dotcom of Mega-UpLoad way back when his island (file hosting can be a pretty lucrative venture) was invaded and threat of extradition went down . . . an interesting watch . . . https://pluto.tv/us/on-demand/serie...79b/season/3/episode/6467e083f2a541001b8f2cf5
     
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    Just tried an alternative to workupload,swisstransfer.com doesn't require registration and also 30-day
     
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    Another: https://hexload.com/
    Active files remain - non-active get deleted after 30 days - registration not required.

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    I've recently been using this as well as an alternative for larger shares - but haven't tested the retention as defined . . . see Post #17 of this thread for my "test" about file retention - most of which have went long beyond the 30-day time frame . . . wink.gif
     
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    Sounds good, I'll give hexupload a try since it can keep it beyond 30 days. Their site looks like its going through some changes though
     
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    I've been pretty successful with using Telegram as a host, no takedowns and stores beyond 30 days.
     
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    I can recommend:
    https://krakenfiles.com/faq
    Fast Upload and Download. No registration required (fles get deleted if no DL for 1 month, or register and files don't get deleted if not DL for 3 months)
     
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    For me it's Google Drive hands down.
    $10 a month for 2tb plus you can link 5 other Gmail accounts to it.
    So I'm actually getting 10tb for the price of one.
     
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    surely caorthannach--but there's folks here don't wanna pay a dime for anything!
     
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    i'm using paid cloud storage, mega
     
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