One-click hosting
One-click hosting generally describes web services that allows internet users to easily upload one or more files from their hard drives onto the one-click host's server free of charge.
Most such services simply return a URL which can be given to other people, who can then fetch the file later on. As of 2005 these sites have drastically increased in popularity, and subsequently, many of the smaller, less efficient sites have failed. Many internet forums exist in order to share such links; this type of file sharing has, to a degree, taken over from P2P filesharing services.
The sites make money through advertising or charging for premium services such as increased downloading capacity, removing any wait restrictions the site may have or prolonging how long uploaded files on the site. Many sites implement a CAPTCHA to prevent automated downloading.
FileFront is a computer game and video game download service that provides patches, demos, modifications and other user generated game related content. It was first launched in December 2001, and created by I/O Error Development.
FileFront was bought by the Ziff Davis Media Game Group in the late half of 2005. FileFront has experienced exponential growth since the acquisition and is rated among the top 250 websites on the web.[1] The main focus of FileFront is to provide a download service to its users, from its Houston-based servers. In addition to this, FileFront also provides some gaming-related news and articles. The news and articles are provided by Computer Gaming World, a sister-site and offspring from Ziff Davis Media, which owns both sites. Filefront is tha awesome.
FileFront Network is a collection of over fifty-five specific game-related sites dedicated to providing news and files to its visitors. It was originally named FilesNetwork, and was launched in January 2000 by its founder, Jos 'Pro-Filer' Jongejan. It's very first game-specific site was SoFFiles covering 'Soldier of Fortune,' today it is still as active at it was back in 2000 and it's one of the few surviving SoF sites. After FileFront purchased the Network in 2004, Pro-Filer remained as the manager of FileFront Network. Each one of these sites has its own unique color scheme and style, but the layout maintains the fundamental principals of each other network site to provide a uniform feeling from site to site. Typically each network site will be named after the game it provides for, usually in abbreviated form, along with the suffix 'files'. For instance, the network site catering for Half Life 2 is called 'HL2Files' and the site for the game 'Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis' uses 'OFPFiles'. Each site may also be accessed via a subdomain which is typically formatted as 'gamename.filefront.com'. These sites are usually run by administrators and volunteers. The Network is constantly expanding and shrinking as new games are released and older games die out, leaving new sites to be created and older ones to be archived.
Due to the nature of these sites, people who create unofficial add-ons for the game, or "modders", are a large part of the community as well as the players who wish to stay informed about things related to that game. The sites also provide patches and updates for the games they cover, as well as trailers and demos for upcoming games. FileFront Network sites tend to launch in the weeks coming up to a game's release, however occasionally sites launch on a games release date or later. Each site has a corresponding forum for discussions such as help with games' technical issues and clan recruitment as well as general chat about the game. Every FileFront Network site's forums are located on FileFront Forums, which is an area separate from FileFront Network.