It's been over two months since I last did a retro MP3 upload to Circadian Shift: The Outpost.
Part of the reason is because I've just been busy. The other reason is that, if you've tried at all to visit the site in the last six weeks or so, more often than not the page has looked like this.
That's because the service I've been using, ProHosting has put a bandwidth cap on their free accounts. They've also imposed various limitations on the type and size of file that you can host with said accounts, although I haven't been contacted in any way to take down the media files I've got up there now. I've just been peppered with regular emails telling me that my daily bandwidth limit has been exhausted.
So, I've taken down the MP3s that were in the "Rotating Collection" (I think someone was direct-linking some of the files, because nothing was showing up on SiteMeter indicating where everyone was coming from). I'll leave up the "Permanent Collection" for the time being.
I do have the option to upgrade my ProHosting account to one of their paid hosting packages and the caps will be removed, but I don't think I'll bother. Not that I begrudge them for putting limits on their free service -- I got a good two-and-half years of unfettered use out of them before this, and, well, things happen and life goes on.
I'll probably be making use of another free hosting service for my MP3s for the next while (which is what I did for that ZIP file of Carpenters tracks that I put up on Sunday). There are a few different ones out there to choose from.
Back in May, regnyouth put up this overview of various free file sharing services with some notes on their limitations. Since then, a few of them that he's listed have changed their terms of service, so, as always, YMMV.