Mediafire - File Hosting Made Simple

MediaFire is, in my opinion, an awesome Web 2.0 tool. It is a file hosting website, and one of the best ones out there available to the normal average computer user. The site, www.mediafire.com, was founded in 2006 and the server is located in Texas in the United States. According to some studies, the domain attracted approximately 9 million annually in 2008 and is widely known to be one of the Top 100 Undiscovered Websites of all time. It is classified as a Web 2.0 tool because it allows users to interact by sharing files and allowing the users to communicated through that. Without the support and use by other computer users, the site would be useless.

MediaFire is a great file hosting website. A file hosting website is one where people can upload and share their files without the use of an FTP client and server or without the need of an e-mail address (unless it is need to create an account to use the file hosting site). This allows for people to share files with each other, perhaps for program developers looking for someone to test and provide feedback on a program in development, or for backing up important files that you don’t want lost. Either way, file hosting can be pretty useful.
MediaFire is real easy to use. All a user has to do it navigate to www.mediafire.com and click “Upload To MediaFire”. The user is then prompted to select a file to upload. After that, hit “Begin Uploading”. Once it’s done uploading, the user clicks on “Go to My Files” and is then taken to a page with all the files they uploaded listed. Beside each file should be a share option. Go to that, and there is a sharing URL. That is the link to your file. Save that for later use. And it’s that easy. No account required, and as long as that file is downloaded at least once every 30 days, it will stay on there. There is a tour people can take on the features of MediaFire here.

This has got to be my favorite file hosting site. There are tons of pros to this and not many cons. No account is required, so you don’t need to spend any money. You don’t even need to make an account. There are no wait times to download a file if you don’t pay anything, unlike other file sharing sites such as Rapidshare. MediaFire also allows for simultaneous downloading of files and does not require you to download any kind of software in order to use it. It also does have any bandwidth limits. Some of the bad things to MediaFire are that there is a limit of 200mb on files being uploaded if the person uploading the file is not using a MediaPro account. A MediaPro account costs $9 - $70 a month, depending on the benefits you would like. You can see the prices and Perks here. One of the main perks of going pro is that it ups the upload limit from 200mb to 2 GB, and it also allows the user to navigate the website without ads, which is another bad thing to MediaFire. Ads. There’s not much, and they aren’t pg rated ads, but there are still ads, Which can get in the way and just get annoying by getting your attention of the website. The last con is that your web browser MUST have cookies enabled in order to manage any of your files.

So there you see,  MediaFire is a very useful a powerful file storage website. You can also go see MediaFires Wikipedia page for more information.