Okay, so here’s the thing: I’m trying to figure out what the best way to host large files online for free is.

After some discussions with Dino o’er the duration of the recent outage, I’ve decided to set up a kind of backup of the site, a secondary Aiera that I can quickly “fail over” to in the event that this primary version of it goes down.

I’m thinking of setting up a blog at Tumblr (though I have to check out their categorization capabilities), which will automatically see mirrored to it any and all posts that get entered at Aiera. That’s easy enough to set up; I do it already on other sites. Image handling is already in the process of being outsourced to Flickr…so all that’s left is the files.

One possibility is just using my Windows Live SkyDrive account, which gives me 25 GB of free storage accessible via my Windows Live login; don’t worry, though…I can create public-accessible folders. The limitation of SkyDrive is that no file can be larger than about 25 MB, which certainly presents a problem where hosting…oh, I don’t know…Lazarus is concerned.

So does anyone know of any other services out there that allow for the hosting of large files for free? Preferably with a minimum of annoying ads?