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After seeing this questionthis question exposing a particulary bad choice for a file hoster to place a PCAP dump on, I wondered what the current options are. As I see it, the hosting service needs to be

  • easily accessible for the readers (i.e. at most 2-3 simple clicks to download)
  • have a long storage time so it keeps the question or answer referring to it in context

and preferably should be

  • without advertising
  • without asking the uploader to create an account

I remember having seen a feature request to provide a uniform way to do binary uploads/downloads somewhere on meta.SO, but as the mills are grinding slowly I would like to know what others are doing in this situation (apart from restraining from linking to binaries at all).

After seeing this question exposing a particulary bad choice for a file hoster to place a PCAP dump on, I wondered what the current options are. As I see it, the hosting service needs to be

  • easily accessible for the readers (i.e. at most 2-3 simple clicks to download)
  • have a long storage time so it keeps the question or answer referring to it in context

and preferably should be

  • without advertising
  • without asking the uploader to create an account

I remember having seen a feature request to provide a uniform way to do binary uploads/downloads somewhere on meta.SO, but as the mills are grinding slowly I would like to know what others are doing in this situation (apart from restraining from linking to binaries at all).

After seeing this question exposing a particulary bad choice for a file hoster to place a PCAP dump on, I wondered what the current options are. As I see it, the hosting service needs to be

  • easily accessible for the readers (i.e. at most 2-3 simple clicks to download)
  • have a long storage time so it keeps the question or answer referring to it in context

and preferably should be

  • without advertising
  • without asking the uploader to create an account

I remember having seen a feature request to provide a uniform way to do binary uploads/downloads somewhere on meta.SO, but as the mills are grinding slowly I would like to know what others are doing in this situation (apart from restraining from linking to binaries at all).

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Binaries: where to host them?

After seeing this question exposing a particulary bad choice for a file hoster to place a PCAP dump on, I wondered what the current options are. As I see it, the hosting service needs to be

  • easily accessible for the readers (i.e. at most 2-3 simple clicks to download)
  • have a long storage time so it keeps the question or answer referring to it in context

and preferably should be

  • without advertising
  • without asking the uploader to create an account

I remember having seen a feature request to provide a uniform way to do binary uploads/downloads somewhere on meta.SO, but as the mills are grinding slowly I would like to know what others are doing in this situation (apart from restraining from linking to binaries at all).