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Looking for free hosting to store a .doc file with 10 to 50 dowloads a day

QQQ
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I need a simple thing - publish a word document available to download with a link by 10 to 50 visitors a day. I used Google Docs, but it started to keep saying "Too many users have viewed or downloaded this file recently. Please try accessing the file again later", thank you Google, I always believed in you!
With Dropbox you cannot change a document without changing a link - how convenient!
So, are there simple alternatives which... just work?

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  • abibee
    abibee Posts: 441 Forumite
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    Tried Microsoft's Onedrive? That might be what you're looking for.

    https://onedrive.live.com/about/en-us/

    Or if you're wanting people to be able to change a document, then Office online? It's free also.

    https://office.microsoft.com/en-gb/online/
  • esuhl
    esuhl Posts: 9,409 Forumite
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    QQQ wrote: »
    With Dropbox you cannot change a document without changing a link - how convenient!

    I just tried with Dropbox and that works fine.

    I created a plain text file in the "Public" folder containing the word !!!!!!!s", and checked the public URL in Firefox -- sure enough the page shows !!!!!!!s". I modified the original file to say "oranges", refreshed the web page, and it showed the new file contents.

    I'm not sure if Dropbox has any up/download limits, but it's dead straightforward (on my PC anyway!)
  • esuhl
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    Really?! B-A-N-A-N-A-S is a swearword now?!

    No wonder my greengrocer keeps giving me evil looks!
  • bod1467
    bod1467 Posts: 15,214 Forumite
    I'm eating a banana whilst reading this thread. :D

    Hmm - banana is OK, how about bananas?

    That's OK too. Weird.
  • agrinnall
    agrinnall Posts: 23,344 Forumite
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    esuhl wrote: »
    Really?! B-A-N-A-N-A-S is a swearword now?!

    No wonder my greengrocer keeps giving me evil looks!

    Given bod's experiments, I wonder if you accidentally mispelled it and added an extra S at the end?

    Let's see - bananass.

    Nope, that's not it. I'm stumped.
  • esuhl
    esuhl Posts: 9,409 Forumite
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    edited 25 September 2014 at 12:02PM
    Well, I surrounded my bananas with double quotation marks: !!!!!!!s". That should do it!

    You can say the word... you just can't quote anyone on the matter!
  • bod1467
    bod1467 Posts: 15,214 Forumite
    That may be because " bananas " with quotes can be deemed a derogatory term. (My God! He's utterly !!!!!!!s"!) :D
  • clippings
    clippings Posts: 20 Forumite
    bod1467 wrote: »
    That may be because " bananas " with quotes can be deemed a derogatory term. (My God! He's utterly !!!!!!!s"!) :D

    !!!! me, MSE do object to the strangest things.
  • System
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    What would MSE do if it was decided that a pling was derogatory
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  • agrinnall
    agrinnall Posts: 23,344 Forumite
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    !!!!!! wrote: »
    What would MSE do if it was decided that a pling was derogatory

    Filth! Wash your mouth out, what would your mother say?
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