Hello fellow nixers,
In this thread let's share how we share files and media with others.

In relation with the entry of last week newsletter "Dropbox is dropping support" in issue 89. I thought of opening the topic of how everyone handles file sharing, especially media files. It's not uncommon to find ourselves in a situation where we have to sync or at least give to someone else a file that resides on our machine, so what do you do in that scenario.

from Dropbox, to rsync and ftp, to SAMBA shares, to NAS (network attached storage), to putting files on your http web server index and display them prettily with h5ai, to centralized home media center on raspberry pi like Kodi or Xbian or others, to any other media center solution, to a mini uploader like paste.xinu.at , to sharing physical media like USB and DVDs, to your own solution.

In my case I use a simple uploader paster for quick small files and when it comes to big files I use a physical medium, a harddisk or USB usually, as my internet speed isn't able to send enormous files. The disadvantage is that I can't share files I would like to share with people that are not next to me.

What machine or device do you use to share media and what is your solution, how do you handle this, what are the downsides to your solution?