Hi,

I've got a three largish PDF files that I need to host on a server
somewhere because they are too big to keep on my small website space.
The biggest PDF is about 20MB. (The PDFs are our own creations for a
non-profit organisation.)

Does anyone have any suggestion for a good filehosting site that is:

a. free,
b. permanent,
and c. extremely easy to use for the visitors (a direct link
to the PDF without going through any adverts, sign-up
screens, or third-party download screens)?

I know you tend to get what you pay for, but surely there must be something.

Thanks

Bungle Bob

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On 2021-01-30, BungleBob <bunglebob@thejungle.com> wrote:

Hi,

I've got a three largish PDF files that I need to host on a server
somewhere because they are too big to keep on my small website space.
The biggest PDF is about 20MB. (The PDFs are our own creations for a non-profit organisation.)

Does anyone have any suggestion for a good filehosting site that is:

a. free,
b. permanent,
and c. extremely easy to use for the visitors (a direct link
to the PDF without going through any adverts, sign-up
screens, or third-party download screens)?

I know you tend to get what you pay for, but surely there must be something.

Have you seen if eg Dropbox/Goole Drive can do this. Load the file and then share with who you want? Just a thought. You should be able to get a direct link to the file(s).

Some PDFs are big and fat and can be reduced in size, if they have not
already had this treatment.

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On Sat, 30 Jan 2021 16:11:40 +1300, BungleBob wrote:

I've got a three largish PDF files that I need to host on a server
somewhere because they are too big to keep on my small website space.
The biggest PDF is about 20MB. (The PDFs are our own creations for a non-profit organisation.)

Does anyone have any suggestion for a good filehosting site that is:

a. free,
b. permanent,
and c. extremely easy to use for the visitors (a direct link
to the PDF without going through any adverts, sign-up
screens, or third-party download screens)?

I know you tend to get what you pay for, but surely there must be something.

I have done that with Google Drive <https://drive.google.com/>

Upload the file to Google Drive.
In Google Drive, set the file as shared so everyone on the Internet can *view* the file.
In Google Drive, get the link to the file.
Every file you share on Google Drive has a unique Google Drive File ID.
If the link to view the file looks like this:

"https://drive.google.com/file/d/GOOGLE-DRIVE-UNIQUE-FILE-ID/view?usp=sharing"

then this will be the direct download link:

"https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=GOOGLE-DRIVE-UNIQUE-FILE-ID"


Google Drive gives you up to 15 GB of storage for free.


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Kind regards
Ralph

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