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.home4files.co.il
- Limit: 500MB/file
- No account needed
- Upload and download unlimited files for free
- Files hosted Forever until user delete it.
- 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
- Files deleted after 9 days with no download
- http://www.4shared.com
- Limit: 50MB
- Premium account offered
- http://www.axifile.com
- Limit: 150MB
- FTP capability
- http://www.esnips.com/
- Limit: 5GB
- http://www.fastshare.org
- Limit: 50MB/email [email protected] to host files up to 4GB
- http://www.filedropper.com/
- Limit: 5GB
- Premium account offered, with 50GB.
- http://www.filesend.net
- Limit: 120MB
- http://www.filevip.com
- Limit: 100MB
- 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.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.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
- http://www.badongo.com/
- Inactive files expire after 50 days for guests, 90 days for registered members
- Bandwidth: 4.8GB/day for guests, 12GB for registered members
- Premium account offered
- https://bitbucket.org/
- Free repository
- Private repository for up to 5 team members
- No limits
- Not recommended for beginners
General gaming hosting
These hosts only host for gaming related content, and not just HL2-based games.
- http://www.atomicgamer.com/uploads.php
- Membership required
- http://www.filecloud.com
- Membership required
- http://www.filefront.com
- http://www.fileplanet.com
- Membership required
- http://www.fileshack.com
- Files must be moderator approved before made public
- http://www.fpsbanana.com
- Membership required
- http://www.2manydownloads.com
- Files must be moderator approved before made public
- http://www.moddb.com
- Membership required
- http://www.tf2maps.net
- TF2-related content only
- http://www.s3g.brainnerd.com/
- Files less than 40mb. Membership required.
These websites are only used for HL2-related files.
- http://halflife2.filefront.com/
- Also hosting files for other Valve games [1], membership required