Jasper wrote: Sat Jun 17, 2023 5:52 am
@mikeslr
Many thanks for saving some of the compiled PET files for future use 
As you know if they do not get taken from MF after 2 weeks there gone.
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I know some hosting services have that policy. But I don't know if that's true for mediafire. I just checked my FREE account. One application I uploaded in 2017 is still there. True, it's my portable-wine.sfs which is still occasionally being downloaded. But another is 32-bit avidemux uploaded in 2019. There may have been some need for it, and downloads, at that time via a link on the 'old-murgha' forum. I don't think anyone using this forum could find it, and being an older version, would want it.
Maybe my account is different and 'grand-fathered'. Maybe mediafire advertises such limitation as a deterrent but doesn't actually enforce it. [I didn't look for such advertisement]. And while I'm still working on my first cup of coffee, so did not read its current Terms of Service word for word, I did scan it. Mediafire advises that it has the right to terminate accounts and delete files if a user breaches it 'terms of service', e.g. " you may not ... transmit virus...Distribute any Content that includes code hidden or otherwise contained within the Content which is unrelated to the Content...Distribute Content that is libelous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic..." But I saw nothing about deleting files that just weren't downloaded.
But I agree with Pikaxhu. I would be good if creators of applications for Puppy did not have to depend on 3rd Party Hosts. Any other ideas about what we can do beyond this:
There are good, and cheap ($100 +/- to start for 1st 3 years, about $15 p/y to maintain) web-hosts. One of us could create a website with a paypal account to receive payment of those who want to join. nominal fee; just enough to cover maintenance and renewal. After the third year these usually cost about $100 p/y.
And "No", I'm not going to create such a website. I can research doing it; make suggestions about structuring membership and finances*, write 'terms of service', etc; and fund its creation. But I don't want to own or administer it. Someone younger should.
* for example, membership would grant a user-name and password required to upload. Membership fees in excess of that reasonably expected to cover maintenance and long term costs would be donated to some charities generally considered worth-while, e.g. St. Judes, Feed-the-Children, The World Wildlife Fund. We are, after-all, a volunteer group. Profit is not our objective.
But I see that I've hijacked this thread. Best if anyone interested start one in the User's Section.
You should have told us you were prescient. 
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10 minutes of scanning posts. 
There must be a better way to find things.