回复：文件托管和代理服务的想法
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Mihalism Multi Host 是一款流行的开源 PHP 文件托管服务器。
它主要面向图片托管，但我认为，只要提高文件大小限制并放宽允许的文件扩展名，它同样可以很容易地用于通用文件上传托管。作为免费服务，他们需要这些限制来把成本控制在合理范围内，但如果我们为它加上比特币支付机制，就可以放宽这些限制。
它没有一堆需要剔除的客户端脚本或防嵌入垃圾代码。它生成的是可以正常使用的标准链接。
这些免费托管网站总是在不断更替。小网站可以提供免费的图片托管，但一旦某个网站开始流行，就会被利用它们获取免费带宽的占便宜者淹没。任何出了名的网站都不得不更积极地催促用户付费，以支付带宽成本。这种服务正是一个绝佳例子：它所需的价位处在无人地带——比免费贵了那么一点点，但又便宜到多数用户都懒得费事使用传统支付。它落在 0 和 19.95 之间的空档里。他们能做到的最好情况，也许就是设法让每 1000 个用户中有 1 个支付 9.95，但这样一来，999/1000 的用户都会被当作白占便宜的人。它实际上也无法靠广告维持，因为图片被嵌入其他网站，用户无需前往托管网站就会下载它们。
一个运行该软件的网站示例： http://www.imagez.ws/
下载： http://code.google.com/p/mihalismmh/
你们觉得怎么样？如果我为它做一个比特币支付集成，会有人有兴趣运行它吗？它可能会成为第一个可以用比特币购买的全自动服务。与免费服务相比，它可以提供的优势是：托管大型文件的通用文件上传，而且不必让下载用户前往上传网站、再跨过重重障碍。它会提供一个直接指向文件的普通链接。
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Mihalism Multi Host is a popular open source PHP file hosting server.
It's geared toward image hosting, but I think by increasing the file size limit and liberalising the allowed file extensions, it could just as easily be used for general file upload hosting. They need the limits to keep it reasonable as a free service, but if we bolt on a Bitcoin payment mechanism, the limits could be relaxed.
It doesn't have a bunch of client side scripting or anti-embedding junk to rip out. It generates standard links that work normally.
There's a turnover churn in these free hosting sites. Small sites can give free image hosting, but once one starts getting popular, it gets too swamped with moochers using them for free bandwidth. Any site that gets well known has to become more aggressively pay-naggy to cover bandwidth costs. It's a perfect example of a service where the needed price point is in the no-man's-land between just a little too expensive to be free, but too cheap for most users to take the trouble of a conventional payment. It's in the gap between 0 and 19.95. The best they can do is try to maybe get 1 out of 1000 users to pay 9.95, but that has 999/1000 users treated like freeloaders. It can't really be advertising supported because the images are embedded in other sites and downloaded without going to the hosting site.
An example of a site running the software: http://www.imagez.ws/
Forum: http://www.mihalism.net/
Download: http://code.google.com/p/mihalismmh/
What do you think? If I made a Bitcoin payment integration for this, would anyone be interested in running it? It might be the first fully automated service available to buy with Bitcoins. The advantage it could offer over the free services is general file upload hosting of large files without making downloading users go to the upload site and jump through hoops. It would give a normal link directly to the file.