: External website storage One of my clients is a business consultant, and stores powerpoint presentations on her website for conference attendees to download after a conference. There are 91 files

@Lengel546

Have you checked out www.slideshare.net/ in addition to hosting presentations with the option to embed them in your site they have apps built-in to share on common social media sites (your client can add a presentations tab to their facebook account or embed them on Linkedin). They have free and paid options.

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@Kaufman445

Host them in a FTP Server with anonymous access. A File Sharing service or in a free hosting service.

If you choose the FTP Server

The ftp service and the files can be placed in the computer of your client which -with internet connection and the appropriate NAT configuration- will allow users to gain access to the files, no matters of its size.

For information on FTP Services take a look at this: superuser.com/questions/296669/how-to-set-up-a-ftp-server-for-multiple-users-with-their-separate-directories/296673#296673 my suggestion and other people's suggestion may be useful for this case.

The File Sharing Service

will force you to maintain dynamic links, unless you have a paid account in RapidShare, Megapload, etc. However, this isn't a kind of a "PRO" solution but it is yet valid.

There are free hosting services

With unlimited monthly file transfer, and unlimited hosting size, but limited file size upload (like the x10hosting.com, make sure you read the rules, when I tried to upload a 4 GB File they said: "no-oh! you can't!" LOL!)

There are other alternatives that I use for those cases, which includes the creation of an HTTP service, with direct http access to the files, which allow you to give a certain format to the files that you wish to share in public, take a look at: geppettvs.servehttp.com/resources.html, geppettvs.servehttp.com/documents.html, and geppettvs.servehttp.com/downloads.html)


Good luck!

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@Michele947

Those are rather large for PowerPoint. Also be sure in PowerPoint to double click any image and hit compress and uncheck "Apply only to this picture". The file size should drop dramatically.

After compression you could use:

Google Docs (1GB)
Dropbox (2GB)
Windows Skydrive (25GB) but with 50MB max file size

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@Goswami781

Dropbox.com gives you 2Gb free. You can make some of it available to other people.

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