--- title: "Cool handy site: DropLoad" url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/12/27/cool-handy-site-dropload.md" canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/12/27/cool-handy-site-dropload.html" published: "2003-12-27T14:54:00" updated: "2003-12-27T14:54:00" tags: ["Cool Tools", "Cool sites"] author: "Roy Osherove" description: "This is another very handy site. Not everyone has an FTP site to upload files for their friends and sometimes hotmail's 1MB size limit just doesn't cut it. The site below will hold the file for 48 hours (and 48 hours…" usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)." license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" --- # Cool handy site: DropLoad By Roy Osherove December 27, 2003 In [Cool Tools](https://osherove.com/blog/category/cool-tools), [Cool sites](https://osherove.com/blog/category/cool-sites) **Historical article** · Originally published December 27, 2003; technical details may be outdated.

This is another very handy site.  Not everyone has an FTP site to upload files for their friends and sometimes hotmail's 1MB size limit just doesn't cut it.  The site below will hold the file for 48 hours (and 48 hours only) and you can email the link out to everyone you want to send it to.

Go to Dropload and drop a load of bites with an email address, and it sends an email to the recipient to come pick up the load. Free and free of the limitations of email servers.

[via Lessig Blog]
\[via [Sirsha](http://hdconsultants.us/posts/347.aspx)\] Need I say more? I can't even count the number of times I needed something like this. ## More in Cool Tools [All posts in Cool Tools](https://osherove.com/blog/category/cool-tools) - Dec 27, 2003 ### [Code: CRUD base classes for unit testing](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/12/27/code-crud-base-classes-for-unit-testing.html) - Dec 27, 2003 ### [New year's Nant, pathetic geek style](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/12/27/new-years-nant-pathetic-geek-style.html) - Dec 24, 2003 ### [Good stuff: New book, Remoting for imbeciles,CodeSmith 2.5 RC1, and OMG 0.2](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/12/24/good-stuff-new-book-remoting-for-imbecilescodesmith-25-rc1-a.html) - Dec 23, 2003 ### [Tool: The complete idiot's add-in for signing your assemblies with a strong name](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/12/23/tool-the-complete-idiots-add-in-for-signing-your-assemblies.html) --- ## About the author **Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery. ### Sites - [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership. - [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts. - [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin. - [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model. - [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps. - [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes). ### Social - X: https://x.com/royosherove - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/osherove/ ### Contact - Contact form: https://forms.gle/jQSx5KoXvrVA1JCK7 ### License Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page). License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/