Re:Show HN: file.st - File Street: The old-school uploader.
by Skywing on Thursday December 06, 2012 @11:51AM
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I don't see any ads anywhere, and this service looks entirely free. It's not cheap to host large files for people en masse, especially since you allow up to 250MB. For example, if this were hosted using Amazon's S3, somebody could literally just upload a lot of 250MB files and directly hit your wallet. How do you plan to keep this service afloat?
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Re:Show HN: file.st - File Street: The old-school uploader.
by ogdr on Thursday December 06, 2012 @12:01PM
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We have a few other hidden upload limits, and we'll probably use ads later on to solve the financial issues, but right now we're trying to estimate the interrest of the service in general.
Re:Show HN: file.st - File Street: The old-school uploader.
by Kudos on Thursday December 06, 2012 @11:55AM
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I'll bet they work in the hosting industry and they're just using spare capacity for this.
Re:Show HN: file.st - File Street: The old-school uploader.
by Skywing on Thursday December 06, 2012 @12:00PM
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I guess I just don't understand that logic. I also work in a hosting-focused industry. We host large amounts of files for paying customers in a much less sexy industry, but we still revolve around file hosting. As a result, we have a lot of storage space and at times we have a lot of free storage space. What would be the benefit of letting people upload files to our open storage and then download them, as well, entirely for free? Seems like it'd only really "get your name out there", but with a lot more downsides than that.