



Fortunately there are some safe choices, because sites like SaberCatHost and iDrive were found to have high data security, and utilized secure SSL along with client-side and server-side data and file encryption. Likewise, OneDrive by Microsoft also did not make it largely due to extreme privacy concerns as well as some other sites which were not particularly secure.Īs a result of these privacy concerns, data security and file encryption were major ranking factors for this year’s list. Privacy is another critical factor in today’s data security crisis, so Google Drive of course did not make it due to extreme privacy concerns. Many sites which did not make it this year either failed to innovate, failed to have a responsive website that works well on mobile devices (a critical factor in today’s ever-increasing base of mobile users), failed to improve their user experience considerably where it lacked from previous years, or decreased their overall value to users in our fast-moving digital world. For that reason, some better-known sites like OneDrive which lacked innovativeness, and DepositFiles which lacked mobile usability and a modern interface, did not make it to the list this year. This year instead of focusing mainly on specs and price, we also included innovativeness and mobile usability as internal metrics for gauging the value of the sites. These newish or newly popular sites are not for everyone, but for those whom the services benefit, they are really cool and original additions that admits being added to this year’s top file hosting sites list. There have also been some really great new niche additions into the file hosting scene. This indicates that more and more people are utilizing online storage to host, share, and backup their files. Almost every file hosting site we researched has multiplied their users either doubling or adding as much as millions of users to its base. Use of cloud storage has exploded in the last year.
