FAQ
What type of files are allowed?
Anything legal. Encrypted or obfuscated stuff will be deleted swiftly. (Malware samples passworded "infected" are allowed.)
What's the max file size?
192MB, I think. Let me know if it's not.
How long do files stay?
I dunno. Til I feel like deleting them, which will depend how big they are. Probably for a while. I have a decent amount of free space online (and even more offline that I might move items to for cold storage).
Use it more and make me cry.
How else can I upload files?
curl --upload-file file.jpg https://www.hostfil.es
curl -Ffile=@file.jpg https://www.hostfil.es
curl -Ffile[]=@file1.jpg -Ffile[]=@file2.jpg https://www.hostfil.es
Or anything else that will send it as either a PUT or POST body.
Note that if you want to send multiple files the field needs to be named file[] and you need to use multipart/form-data.
If you don't use multipart/form-data then the whole request body must be the single file you wish to upload.
Are my files private?
Mostly. Anyone who knows the SHA-512 sum of the contents can probably find them. Any of our staff (admins and moderators) can find them. And our server host (OVH) could also access our server and find them.
Do you keep logs?
Of uploads only. File downloads are not logged, and will be supported via Tor Hidden Service and I2P eep-site in the near future. The only statistics we retain are related to aggregate, server-wide resource usage.
How do I report abuse?
Email abuse@hostfil.es
Other contact methods?
IRC (More info)
Why?
Cuz.
Who should I thank?
steering.
Source code?
A couple hundred lines.
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