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[tetris]

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MyDocumentsWeb.com is a web server that has been recommended by aProgDirector for hosting our documents so that during the scramble, we can give programs a link and they can see them on the site, which theoretically is better than faxing, calling, or emailing.

Can anyone recommend alternate server sites?

I'm looking at Google Docs, but I'm getting an error right now:

"Sorry! We are experiencing technical difficulties and cannot show all of your documents."

 

[waldenwoods]

If you're affiliated with a university that provides some amount of server space for storing files as well as the means to publish your own web site on the server, that could be an option. In this case, the first step would be to check with your school's IT department to see if this is available to you.

Sorry I don't know of any other document hosting services that you can purchase. Best of luck.

 

[tetris]

If you're affiliated with a university that provides some amount of server space for storing files as well as the means to publish your own web site on the server, that could be an option. In this case, the first step would be to check with your school's IT department to see if this is available to you.

Sorry I don't know of any other document hosting services that you can purchase. Best of luck.

I've graduated med school already, so I'm not affiliated with a school.

A Google search brings up many free file-hosting services, but I'd prefer one recommended here. Also, most of these sites host pics and videos, which makes them look unprofessional for our purposes.

 

[peter90036]

http://share.zoho.com/
(Making this writer public would allow anyone to view this writer. By default a public document is listed on our website while they even get crawled by search engines like Google, Yahoo, etc.)

the free file hosting services ala megaupload/rapidshare etc - they have timers before being able to download and also display ads, also might get indexed by google = your pdf contents (name etc) in google results. (probably not if you delete "fast")

make sure you play with whatever service you pick (upload a test file, check to see how to delete, how to share), before you upload your documents.

you could also make a blog on like wordpress.com and upload the files there - which you can give a direct link to the file (ex: http://tetris.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/blahblah.pdf), also in the wordpress blog you have an option not to list your blog/crawled by google (iirc- yes - "I would like to block search engines, but allow normal visitors") = you dont have to make blog posts/pages etc = your files wont be seen - just upload the pdfs.

 

[tetris]

Thanks, Peter.

I think I'll go with DropBox, a very cool synching service. It's free and has a feature for giving each file a link for people to go to.

 

[thunder hawk]

try www.docstoc.com. it is a nice website

 

[tetris]

try www.docstoc.com. it is a nice website

Thanks, looks good.

 

[doxtyp]

try www.docstoc.com. it is a nice website

Do they provide you with download links for the files? Couldn't find that option.