Free Megaupload Alternatives
The most popular file sharing site of all time, MegaUpload is permanently down due to a criminal sting super headed by United States department of justice. Before the site got down, it accounted for almost four percent of total internet traffic with over 50 million visitors a day, according to DoJ. Now, when this site is no more, you all would be looking for some alternatives to share your files and to download files and content for free just as you used to do with MegaUpload. So here’s a list of 7 free megaupload alternatives, which provides you all the facilities like MegaUpload for free to share your files with public and to download the content shared by others.
1. Rapidshare: Rapidshare tops this list of free megaupload alternatives because of the popularity and the similarity to MegaUpload. This website lets you upload files of unlimited size and gives you unlimited disk space. At the same time, you can share your uploaded file link by email, twitter or Facebook. But if you are a free user, the files you upload, get deleted after a certain period of time. If you want to use this as a cloud storage service, you can upgrade your account to Rapidpro for about $40 for 150 days or $130 for two years.
2. Mediafire: Mediafire can be termed as a stripped-down version of Rapidshare with unlimited storage. But the maximum upload size at one time is 2 GB for free user. Just like Rapidshare, your files as a free user get deleted after a certain time. To get rid of this, you can upgrade to Pro Account for $ 9 a month, which also increases max upload size to 4 GB. The files stored at Mediafire are shared using a link provided by the website.
3. Dropbox: Another popular cloud storage service with a max storage limit of 2 GB. The files can be shared with anyone using your public folder or other Dropbox users via email invitations. The storage limit can be upgraded to 50 GB for 10$ a month and 100 GB for 20$ a month.
4. Box: Just as Dropbox, Box is a also a cloud storage service with a max storage limit of 5 GB, the files can be shared by a direct link and also the users can invite their contacts by email to view the contents of a full folder. The maximum upload size for a free user is 25 MB. This can be increased by buying Pro membership. Pro users can up their upload limit to 1 GB-per-file for 10$ a month, which further increases the storage limit to 25 GB or $ 20 for 50 GB.
5. Filesonic: Filesonic offers 30 days’ time for free users, and maximum uploads of upto 1 GB. For $9 a month, user can upgrade to unlimited storage, unlimited storage time, Maximum download speed, and can upload files of upto 5 GB size. The files are shared using direct links.
6. Minus: It can be termed as one of the easiest options available. The registered users can drag and drop any files (max size 2 GB), and they get a maximum storage of 50GB. The files are shared by automatically generated links.
7. Amazon Cloud Drive: Amazon’s cloud drive gives 5 GB storage for free, which can be upgraded till 1000 GB, for $1 per GB- Per year. Certainly, one of the least expensive cloud sharing service. The biggest Downside: File sharing not allowed. If you want to share your files with someone, you need to share your amazon password.
Some other popular free file sharing services:
Microsoft Sky Drive: completely free cloud storage service. Sky Drive gives 25 GB of storage space to the users. But the downside is, max file upload size is 50 MB. Also you have to have a Hotmail account.
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