Replacement for Dropbox File Hosting

Gary James wrote on 12/19/2016, 9:50 AM

Users of Dropbox have been notified that Dropbox will no longer be supporting the Public Folder option where people could place files they wanted to share through a Dropbox generated file link. This will be devastating to every Dropbox user who has published links to files and images to various forum boards like this Vegas forum. I know that personally, I've been posting hundreds of links to my files and images to the Sony Vegas forum for many years; all of which will become broken when Dropbox kills their Public Folders.

Dropbox has said that they will provide a way of generating Public Links to any file placed in any folder in a users account, as a way of keeping existing functionality. But this idiotic idea completely ignores that potentially millions of links from thousands of Dropbox users to public files will be broken, and would require an enormous investment in time and resources to regenerate new links as replacements for all those that have been posted over the years.

What I'm looking for is another file sharing service similar to Dropbox that I can switch over to once Dropbox pulls the plug on my shared files. I realize this will not do anything to fix the problem Dropbox created. But, at least I'll know I will no longer be a customer to a company that pulls the rug out from under it's loyal paying customers.

If you have any suggestions for a file sharing service that can provide web links to files that can be used by forum boards like this Vegas forum, I'm open to hear them.

Thanks.

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NickHope wrote on 12/19/2016, 10:20 AM

I got that message too and it sucks. I have public Dropbox links all over this forum and others. ImageShack did a similar thing a couple of years ago and hundreds of posts I had made with embedded images became broken.

Actually the Dropbox bad news was good timing for me because I'm about to start paying someone for a terrabyte of cloud storage. Their message is helping push me over to Google Drive instead. Looks like you can share a public link there. Not quite as slick as Dropbox's right click > Copy public link, but not too bad (instructions at the bottom of here). Let's try it...

https://drive.google.com/a/bubblevision.com/file/d/0B8ftVT5A1FqQZi1QYjE3cjY0MHc/view?usp=sharing

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set wrote on 12/19/2016, 10:34 AM

Try your link and got notification : request permission?

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NickHope wrote on 12/19/2016, 10:36 AM

Yeah I just got the "requesting access" email. I got the permissions wrong. It should work now.

set wrote on 12/19/2016, 10:38 AM

Ok, work perfectly.

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Bandung, West Java, Indonesia (UTC+7 Time Area)

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System 5-2021:
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-10700 CPU @ 2.90GHz   2.90 GHz
Video Card1: Intel UHD Graphics 630 (Driver 31.0.101.2127 (Feb 1 2024 Release date))
Video Card2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 8GB GDDR6 (Driver Version 551.23 Studio Driver (Jan 24 2024 Release Date))
RAM: 32.0 GB
OS: Windows 10 Pro Version 22H2 OS Build 19045.3693
Drive OS: SSD 240GB
Drive Working: NVMe 1TB
Drive Storage: 4TB+2TB

 

System 2-2018:
ASUS ROG Strix Hero II GL504GM Gaming Laptop
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 8750H CPU @2.20GHz 2.21 GHz
Video Card 1: Intel(R) UHD Graphics 630 (Driver 31.0.101.2111)
Video Card 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB GDDR5 VRAM (Driver Version 537.58)
RAM: 16GB
OS: Win11 Home 64-bit Version 22H2 OS Build 22621.2428
Storage: M.2 NVMe PCIe 256GB SSD & 2.5" 5400rpm 1TB SSHD

 

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balazer wrote on 12/29/2016, 6:06 PM

I too was dismayed by Dropbox's announcement. Google did a similar thing a year before, discontinuing web hosting support in Google Drive.

Web hosting comes and goes. It seems to me the only way to ensure continued viability of your links is to put the files under URLs that you fully control. That means web hosting with your own domain.

There are lots of web hosting options, but I don't know which ones really make sense for file sharing. On one end you have cheap "unlimited" web hosting that isn't really unlimited. On the other end you've got something like Amazon S3, which is fast and reliable. Amazon S3 is cheap for low volume hosting, and expensive for high volume hosting.