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j"1LAnZuoQdcKCkpDBKQMCgziGMoPC4VQUckM–<div class="post">Mihalism Multi Host is a popular open source PHP file hosting server.<br/><br/>It's geared toward image hosting, but I think by increasing the file size limit and liberalising the allowed file extensions, it could just as easily be used for general file upload hosting.&nbsp; They need the limits to keep it reasonable as a free service, but if we bolt on a Bitcoin payment mechanism, the limits could be relaxed.<br/><br/>It doesn't have a bunch of client side scripting or anti-embedding junk to rip out.&nbsp; It generates standard links that work normally.<br/><br/>There's a turnover churn in these free hosting sites.&nbsp; Small sites can give free image hosting, but once one starts getting popular, it gets too swamped with moochers using them for free bandwidth.&nbsp; Any site that gets well known has to become more aggressively pay-naggy to cover bandwidth costs.&nbsp; It's a perfect example of a service where the needed price point is in the no-man's-land between just a little too expensive to be free, but too cheap for most users to take the trouble of a conventional payment.&nbsp; It's in the gap between 0 and 19.95.&nbsp; The best they can do is try to maybe get 1 out of 1000 users to pay 9.95, but that has 999/1000 users treated like freeloaders.&nbsp; It can't really be advertising supported because the images are embedded in other sites and downloaded without going to the hosting site.<br/><br/>An example of a site running the software:<br/><a href="http://www.imagez.ws/">http://www.imagez.ws/</a><br/><br/>Forum:<br/><a href="http://www.mihalism.net/">http://www.mihalism.net/</a><br/><br/>Download:<br/><a href="http://code.google.com/p/mihalismmh/">http://code.google.com/p/mihalismmh/</a><br/><br/>What do you think?&nbsp; If I made a Bitcoin payment integration for this, would anyone be interested in running it?&nbsp; It might be the first fully automated service available to buy with Bitcoins.&nbsp; The advantage it could offer over the free services is general file upload hosting of large files without making downloading users go to the upload site and jump through hoops.&nbsp; It would give a normal link directly to the file.</div> text/html