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Comment by ankushio | Hacker News Reader

GitHub requests its users not to use GitHub as a hosting for large binaries. You should probably use Amazon S3 for distributing these files or you can upload them to a Sound Hosting service like SoundCloud.

Here is GitHub's policy : https://help.github.com/articles/distributing-large-binaries...

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To avoid the issue of hosting large files on Github - the repo now links to remote downloads of the lectures (from dropbox).

Dropbox has very low bandwidth limits for their files so that's probably not the best hosting choice.

Perhaps archive.org or Soundcloud if you're looking for a no-cost option.

I disagree. Dropbox is a very good choice for hosting this content because it was designed to host and share medium to large sized files. As long as you are not using Dropbox as your CDN and get less than a few hundred downloads a day, you should be good.

EDIT : Here is sample dropbox download speed : http://cl.ly/Xs5J

The issue isn't the download speed. It's the total bandwidth limit enforced by Dropbox. It's super low (from http://lifehacker.com/5704367/what-are-dropboxs-bandwidth-li... ):

> According to Dropbox support, public links for free accounts may not use more than 10GB of bandwidth per day while that limit is 250GB per day for paid Dropbox accounts.

OP responded to my post saying they were indeed disabled already. Dropbox is good for sharing with 1 or 2 people but bad for sharing with the general public.

Turns out Dropbox was a bad choice. The links were disabled for generating too much traffic. The files are now hosted on archive.org and the Github repo has been updated.

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