Video files are huge. 100MB. 1GB. 5GB.  Depending on resolution, frame rate (frames per second, or “fps”), and length.

Trouble is, everything online limits files size.  Facebook (currently, Oct 2013) limits videos go 1GB (=1000MB).  GoDaddy WebsiteBuilder limits videos to 150MB.  That’s low.  Email systems limit the size of file you can send. Sometimes to 20MB. That’s even lower.

Consider an example:

Say a 1hour video file is 2.5GB. Let’s say we want to put that on our website hosted by GoDaddy. We would have to break it up into 17 separate chunks of 3 minutes 30 seconds each. Hardly convenient.

So, what to do?

I think the best answer is paid online storage.  (Un-paid (“free”) online storage, like flickr.com or facebook take ownership of your images and scan them and sell your profile to 3rd parties.)

Here are the two options i think are the best.  (Dropbox, while paid, is excluded because i sense they sell your profile):

I think box.net is the best. They have privacy. And not too expensive. $5 for 2GB max file size, 100GB max total storage.

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Another favorite of mine is zoho.com. But in this case their “docs” is too expensive. $25 for 2GB max file size, 250GB max total storage.

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