How To Host Any Kind Of File On Your Blog

We all know that, blogger does not allows file storage other than Picture and text, we can also embedd videos from other video sharing platforms like Youtube. To enable direct down load form your blogger, you should purchase a domain from Google to host your files. How about hosting files for free in your blogger. This article covers all possible solutions to enable file hosting in your blogger to give direct download links to your readers.

What is a direct download?, when a reader click on a particular link in your blog, download is initiated without being redirected to any other web page or file hosting services. This gives your blog a competitive edge over other free blogs. The readers will love this feature. There are two possible solutions for this dilemma without spending a single cent.

1) Host your Files in your P.C
2) The Use Google Sites

Hosting files In your P.C- Turn Your P.C to A Dedicated Server

First if all you need a simple programme to host files in your P.C. The Programme is called HFS(HTTP file server)and you can download HFS from this Link. If you have a third party firewall installed, configure it to allow HFS to the trusted App section. By default HFS uses port 80, if your firewall blocks port 80, configure HFS to any free port like 1024 or 8025.

If you are behind a router, you need to refer the port forwarding tutorials Here . Now you should Test HFS settings.

The next step is to register a free domain from no-ip.com. Go to no-ip.com and Create a new user at No-IP account.

Once you are finished with the registration Log-in to your account and click on “Hosts/Redirects”.

Now Click on "Add" link in left sidebar.

This will help you to create a domain in conjunction with your IP address. Click on "Create a Host" to publish your website.


Now you are ready to launch your site.


You can now decide what page will appear when someone access your site, like the default page.To change the default page,

• Open HFS and click on “You are in Easy Mode ” to turn it to advance mode.
• Right click on little house icon on VFS and click on “Bind Root to Real Folder”.
• Now you can add files and folder here which you want to make available in your website.
• Next is when your site is ready send the address which you created in NO-IP or step 4 to all your friends.
• You can even see what others are viewing in advanced mode of hfs

Now we learned about tuning your p.c to a dedicated file hosting server. If you come across any trouble during configuration, you can refer this guide

Hosting files in Google For free

Now we are going to discuss about the simple easy method to host any types of files for free, to enable direct download in your blog. Assuming that you all guys have  a working Google account. This site is a phenomenon, go to Google Sites. Google sites helps you to make hosting your files much much easier. You will get 100 MB free storage per google account. If you need 1GB storage, you should have a 10 Google account.

Now sign in with your Google account user name and password. Create a site, it is so easy to do. Unfortunately Google sites does not permits direct uploading of .exe files. No need to worry, we can convert it to a .rar file or .zip file using either WinRar or WinZip, now you can upload it. As your blog getting popular and popular, you need to give more to your readers, so create multiple Google account and, increase your storage as per your requirement. Log in to your site, create file Cabinet page and add your files. Review the screen shot for getting downloading links.

Hosting Document Files With Word-press For Free

Word-press gives you the chance to host your documents. You have 3GB space per Wordpress account. These are the allowed file types: jpg, jpeg, png, gif, pdf, doc, ppt, odt, pptx, docx.

Suppose if you want to start a blog on Ebook downloads, you can download ebooks from torrents or rapidshare and Just upload it to Wordpress, you can give direct download links to your blog documents using this feature.


Think I have helped you a bit.
Happy reading.
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