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'Up to 256 GB per single file. No limit on batch uploads as long as e...","duplicate_of":null,"n_unknown":4},"record":{"topic":"storage","slug":"bigfile-net","provider":"BigFile.net","url":"https://www.bigfile.net","category":"anonymous-dump","free_tier":{"stated":"No account and no published total quota — storage is per-object and unbounded in count. 'Up to 256 GB per single file. No limit on batch uploads as long as each file is under 256 GB.'","unit":"GB","metered_on":"stored-bytes","source_url":"https://www.bigfile.net/","read_on":"2026-10-21","notes":null},"per_object_cap":{"stated":"256 GB per single file","bytes":256000000000,"source_url":"https://www.bigfile.net/","notes":"not stated"},"retention":{"stated":"Retention: 'Uploaded files are kept for at least 365 days","days":365,"source_url":"https://www.bigfile.net/","notes":"not stated"},"egress":{"terms":"Unmetered. 'No speed limits. Speeds depend solely on your network bandwidth. We don't impose any artificial throttling.' Downloads served from Cloudflare with `Cache-Control: public, max-age=3600`.","metered":false},"interface":["rest","rclone"],"interface_detail":"rest","tooling":"Undocumented but fully functional chunked HTTP API, reverse-engineered from the site's own uploader JS: `POST https://u1.bigfile.net/v1/upload` with header `Content-Range: start-end`, header `Hash: <sha256 of whole file encoded base62, left-padded to 43 chars>`, raw body = the chunk response `{\"status\":true,\"uri\":\"/d/<base62hash>\"}`. Read path: `GET https://www.bigfile.net/d/<base62hash>` (direct octet-stream), plus `GET /d/<hash>/list.json` for multi-file shares. Uploader parallelises across `u1..uN.bigfile.net`. No rclone backend.","chaining":"Account-less, so unlimited uploads per IP x 256 GB per object. Chain = N objects x 256 GB with 365-day sliding retention; keep every hash and the corpus is addressable forever by re-downloading before the 365-day idle window lapses, or re-POSTing the same bytes (content-addressed, so a re-upload of an existing hash is cheap).","limits":[{"kind":"per-object-cap","value":"256 GB per single file","source":"https://www.bigfile.net/"},{"kind":"retention-clamped","value":"Retention: 'Uploaded files are kept for at least 365 days","source":"https://www.bigfile.net/"}],"limits_note":"per-object-cap 256 GB. Retention: 'Uploaded files are kept for at least 365 days. Files that have not been downloaded for more than 365 days will be automatically deleted' — a sliding window, not a hard expiry, so a monthly GET sweep keeps everything alive indefinitely. No auth, no rate limit observed: 4 concurrent ranged GETs all returned 200 in 1.7-3.3 s.","identity_cost":{"kind":"anonymous","detail":"derived from the record's prose, not from an identity field, and no signup was executed: No account and no published total quota — storage is per-object and unbounded in count. 'Up to 256 GB per single file. No limit on","country":null},"reliability_note":"Genuinely good for a no-account host: upload and read both verified by SHA-256, and the site advertises a 'zero-database architecture' meaning no inventory to lose. The risk is the opposite of the usual one — there is no account, so nobody can enumerate or restore your corpus if you lose the hashes.","confidence":"documented","confidence_note":"re-read from read-broker on 2026-10-22 (HTTP 200, 1419 bytes, sha256 f960ea350c861ede). The page states the number in the record; the claim is documented, not measured.","evidence":[{"url":"https://www.bigfile.net/","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"the host answers at all. Re-read https://www.bigfile.net/: HTTP 200, 1419 bytes, sha256 f960ea350c861ede. Quoted: --- title: \"Send Large Files Online Fast, Free & Secure\" author: \"BigFile.net\" language: \"en_US\" description: \"Upload and share your large files quickly and securely with BigFile.net – Free, high-speed bandwidth, anywhere online. No registration required.\" word"},{"url":"https://u1.bigfile.net/v1/upload","date":"2026-10-21","proved":"probe: POST (102400 B, Content-Range 0-102399, Hash=9MHqkCQPcrV15ACXrzfQN9bIeE5hYm5PGk0hy6qXO2C) -> 200 {\"status\":true,\"uri\":\"/d/9MHqkCQPcrV15ACXrzfQN9bIeE5hYm5PGk0hy6qXO2C\"}; GET that URI -> 200, Content-Length 102400, sha256 matches upload exactly"},{"url":null,"date":"2026-10-21","proved":"probe: second round with 3145728 B random payload -> upload 200, download 200, sha256 521fa7603ab4955cd275eac71d5419f09d8951a6a08a777f8997ccd1554afbf4 identical on both sides"},{"url":"https://www.bigfile.net/","date":"2026-10-21","proved":"'Up to 256 GB per single file. No limit on batch uploads', 'kept for at least 365 days', 'No registration required. No email, phone, or personal info needed'"}],"verdict":"qualifies","verified_at":"2026-10-22T00:00:00.000Z","notes":"No account and no published total quota — storage is per-object and unbounded in count. 'Up to 256 GB per single file. 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