Since the site is down, this is the summary from the Google cache:
F*EX (Frams' Fast File EXchange) is a service to send
big (large, huge, giant, ...) files from a user A
to a user B.
The sender uploads the file to the F*EX server
using a WWW upload form and the recipient
automatically gets a notification e-mail with
a download-URL.
It's refreshing to see F*EX on the front page on HN (usually dominated by third-party web services). This is something that you can self-host with no strings attached!
FEX is great to cross organizational boundaries (that is, whenever ssh isn't an option). It's actively developed too.
For non technical users we're also having DL[1], self-hosted as well. It includes a thunderbird extension that cut our usage of attachments to zero.
Those look cool, but how are those sites any different from creating a torrent of the files you want to share yourself, and then sending your recipient the magnet link?
For instant.io, I don't think there really is a difference, other than that I can get people who don't know what a torrent is to download the file. And file.pizza doesn't use WebTorrent at all, it's just a plain P2P transfer over WebRTC.
I usually send files to friends by hosting a local web server (python -m SimpleHTTPServer) then forwarding the port via ngrok (ngrok 8000 http)
I understand why this isn't a widespread solution, but it works great, and use it to share big files with non-technical folks (just give them the ngrok link).
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FEX is great to cross organizational boundaries (that is, whenever ssh isn't an option). It's actively developed too.
For non technical users we're also having DL[1], self-hosted as well. It includes a thunderbird extension that cut our usage of attachments to zero.
[1] https://www.thregr.org/~wavexx/software/dl/
I understand why this isn't a widespread solution, but it works great, and use it to share big files with non-technical folks (just give them the ngrok link).