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Or dream host's Files Forever. You pay once to put them up, and then they can be downloaded for free by anyone.

Also gone for unrelated reasons, sorry: https://files.dreamhost.com/

Oh, bummer. Looks like their replacement [1] is a cheaper version of S3, but they still charge for download bandwidth.

[1]: http://dreamhost.com/cloud/dreamobjects/

I thought that was a service for selling files. How does the pricing work out if they can be free?

Edit: I found some of the old text, it's apparently dual-nature. You can make backups that you/friends download for free. You can also have files for sale that people pay to download. No way to have permanent public hosting.

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