Review of file hosting services

The service is ad-heavy, too. Cloud storage shines when you subscribe to a premium plan, but there are good free plans, too.

They let you use the service to upload and share files the way file hosting services do. For more details, read our top five providers with a large service plan article. Google Drive gives you a generous 15GB of free storage, which will be enough for most people.

Free users get the same access to Google Docs, Google Photos and other apps that integrate with the service. Read more in our Google Drive review. Using the free version of pCloud gets you 10GB of storage. You can complete a multi-step process to get another 4GB. If you refer a friend, you get 1GB of additional space up to 20GB. If that intrigues you, read our pCloud review.

It has many upsides, as you can read in our Sync. The company tells us that it will remove the 20GB cap once you hit it if you ask. Most features are available to free users, including zero-knowledge encryption and the ability to password-protect shared files. Now, you can get 20GB for free, which is still nothing to dismiss. Besides those bonuses being temporary, the options for free users are limited. You can read more about it in our MEGA review.

When you start using MediaFire, you get 10GB of free storage. When you refer a friend you get 1GB of space up to 32GB. You can read more about it in our MediaFire review. Doing so with ease, quickly and without many restrictions is better than it being a chore.

Free plans are limited whether they are for file hosting or cloud storage services. Both usually limit your storage space, with some exceptions for file hosting services that limit how long files stay on the servers or have ads.

They are more complicated, though, so if you only want to share a file quickly, you are better off with a file hosting service. You can transfer files and share them with ease from both the web interface and the desktop app and can even preview certain types of files without downloading them first. Read our full Mega review. Although you can use pCloud to share any type of file, the service is particularly skilled at managing media files.

The service includes audio and video players to help you stream the shared media files straight from pCloud itself. You can even use the audio player to create and manage playlists. Another specialty of pCloud are social media backups.

You can ask the service to connect to your accounts on popular social media services such as Facebook and Instagram and backup media hosted there into your pCloud account. The service also has a free account that can share and sync files up to 10 GB. All pCloud accounts, whether free or paid, offer the same set of features. However there are a couple of add-on services that you can subscribe to for added benefits. Read our full pCloud review. While 1fichier also offers unlimited storage, make sure you pay attention to how it classifies it between cold and hot storage.

Once that runs out of space, 1fichier will automatically remove the oldest files. You can however purchase additional cold storage on top of the regular plans. The only downside is that Free accounts have some download restrictions. The unique feature of the service is that it can be used as a professional Content Delivery Network CDN to share your files.

The service also supports two factor authentication and can password protect uploaded files. Advanced users will also appreciate its access control features that you can use to, for instance, restrict downloads to specific IP or a range of addresses. Read our full 1fichier review. The company advertises a super speed server of 1 Gbps Debrid is a premium link generator that provides you with access to multiple file host servers for one fee only. It saves not only your money, but The company generates more than 70 hosts including Uploaded, Rapidgator, and Uptobox.

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