Hosting Sites
From Valve Developer Community
This is a list of links to external sites dealing with creating Mods with the Source Engine.
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File Hosting Sites
There are a wide variety of options that you can utilize to make your custom maps and mods available to the masses. You can upload them to sites dedicated to gaming, get a server to place it in their rotation, or you can host it yourself.
This is a list of sites where you can upload content to.
General hosting
- http://www.uploadpedia.com
- Limit: 100MB/file
- No account needed
- Upload up to 10 files at once
- Upload and download unlimited files for free
- http://www.BOXSTr.com
- Limit: 10GB
- Premium account offered
- Desktop and web uploading
- 250Mb File Size
- 10GB Bandwidth
- Hotlinking
- http://www.sendspace.com
- Limit: 300MB
- Premium account offered
- File Tracking & Statistics
- They Never Delete Files
- http://www.4shared.com
- Limit: 50MB
- Premium account offered
- http://www.axifile.com
- Limit: 150MB
- FTP capability
- http://www.bestsharing.com
- Limit: 125MB
- Expires: 45 days inactive (Time bonus offered)
- http://www.esnips.com/
- Limit: 5GB
- http://www.fastshare.org
- Limit: 50MB/email webmaster@fastshare.org (mailto:webmaster@fastshare.org) to host files up to 4GB
- http://www.fileho.com
- Limit: None
- FTP capability
- http://www.filesend.net
- Limit: 120MB
- http://www.filevip.com
- Limit: 100MB
- http://www.fsphost.com
- Limit: 250MB
- FTP capability
- http://www.freehostingz.com/
- Limit: 1000MB
- Bandwidth: 100000MB
- FTP capability
- http://www.gigeshare.com
- Limit: 2000MB
- Expires: 90 days inactive
- http://www.keepmyfile.com
- Limit: 60MB
- Expires: 40 days inactive
- http://www.mediafire.com
- Limit: 100MB
- Expires: Never
- http://www.mediamax.com/
- Limit: 25GB
- http://www.megaupload.com
- Limit: 250GB
- File Size Limit: 500MB
- Expires: 90 days inactive
- Premium account offered
- http://www.netfilego.com
- Limit: 100MB
- http://www.ohshare.com
- Limit: 80MB
- Expires: 30 days inactive
- http://www.quicksharing.com
- Limit: 500MB
- Expires: 30 days inactive
- http://www.rapidshare.com
- Limit: 100MB
- Expires: 90 days inactive
- Premium account offered
- http://www.savefile.com
- Limit: 60MB
- Expires: 30 days inactive
- http://www.sendmefile.com
- Limit: 50MB
- Expires: 28 days inactive
- Premium account offered
- http://www.storeandserve.com
- Limit: 100MB
- Expires: 30 days inactive
- Premium account offered
- http://www.topcities.com/
- FTP Support
- 150MB File Storage Limit
- 900KB File Upload Limit
- Premium Account Offered
- Unlimited Bandwidth
- Hotlinking Disabled.
- http://www.turboupload.com
- Limit: 70MB
- http://www.ultrashare.net
- Limit: 100MB
- Expires: 21 days inactive
- Premium account offered
- http://www.uploaded.to
- Limit: 250MB
- http://www.uploading.com
- Limit: 300MB
- Expires: 30 days since upload if there are no downloads
- http://www.yousendit.com
- Limit: 1024MB
- Expires: 7 days
- Premium account offered
- http://www.zupload.com
- Limit: 500MB
- Expires: 30 days inactive
General gaming hosting
These hosts only host for gaming related content, and not just HL2-based games.
- http://www.3ddownloads.com
- Membership required
- http://www.filecloud.com
- Membership required
- http://www.filefront.com
- http://www.fileplanet.com
- Membership required
- http://www.fileshack.com
- http://www.fpsbanana.com
- Membership required
- http://www.gameconnect.info
- http://www.moddb.com
- Membership required
- http://www.pcgamemods.com
- Membership required
HL2 & mods related hosting
These websites are only used for HL2-related files.
- http://halflife2.filefront.com/
- Also hosting files for other Valve games [1] (http://halflife2.filefront.com/files/), membership required
- http://half-life2.whiskey-town.com
- Membership required
- http://www.gameconnect.info
- Hosting, sponsorships and more
Image Hosting Sites
This is an incomplete list of websites that offer free image hosting, which may be of use to modmakers looking to promote their work.
- Flickr (http://www.flickr.com)
- ImageShack (http://www.imageshack.us) - Up to 1.5MB.
Images removed after 800MB, or 10000 views with in the same hour
- Photobuckets Tiny Pic (http://www.tinypic.com) - Up to 250KB
Images never removed unless formaly requested.
- large image host (http://www.largeimagehost.com)
- Photograph hosting (http://www.photographhosting.com)
- ImageVenue (http://www.imagevenue.com)
- ModDB (http://www.moddb.com/) (with Mod profile)
Video Hosting Sites
This is an incomplete list of websites that offer free video hosting, which may be of use to modmakers looking to promote their work.
- Google Video (http://video.google.com)
- YouTube (http://www.youtube.com)
- PutFile (http://www.putfile.com/)
- MSN Video (http://video.msn.com/)
- Blip.tv (http://www.blip.tv/)
- Stage6 (http://stage6.divx.com/)
- veoh (http://www.veoh.com/)
- MySpace (http://www.myspace.com/)
- LiveDigital (http://www.livedigital.com/)
- Sevenload (http://en.sevenload.com/)
- Digg (http://digg.com/videos)
- Revver (http://www.revver.com)
Try searching on Google (http://www.google.com) with the words "video hosting" for more sites (or click this link (http://www.google.com/search?source=ig&hl=nl&q=video+hosting&btnG=Google+zoeken&meta=))
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