Suggestions for low cost or free web hosting and large project downloads

[DaveLembke]

I am looking to post online Open Source projects for download that I either created myself or altered others open source projects, but I have been out of the web loop for about 10 years from having a website hosted and maintained. Figured I'd check here for suggestions.

One altered open source project is to expand OS backwards compatibility to Windows XP SP3 and this download is about 800MB in size. Most are small lesser than 20MB in size that I created myself.

Not looking to make any money on this venture. Its all open source and posted for others to use and further alter if needed.

In the past I have put some projects up on GitHub for ones that I created myself for people to use. I have no idea of web traffic to them and if anyone has even downloaded them. With no website pointing to the GitHub for open source projects that I have there, I am not sure if Google crawls to gather info from GitHub from the description pages for projects to then suggest a hit on a search in search engine to the GitHub page.

Also, I dont need to specifically have my own website, but I am thinking that is probably what I will need to have for this. If there was already a trusted website out there that isnt on the dark or grey net that where projects like this can be shared for others to find and use and google search to add to the search that would work too. However there are many grey and dark net hosts out there for downloads and I dont want my projects which are clean and not illegal mixed with the questionable and/or illegal download sites. 

[Geek-9pm]

Many of the companies you knew ten years ago are still out there.
Check with educational institutions near you.
Or, check out this article from lifehackerr.
http://lifehacker.com/5911651/five-best-web-hosting-companies
Also consider services from Yahoo or Google.
Look at this:
http://thenextweb.com/google/2011/03/04/how-to-host-your-website-on-google-for-free/

One of my old favorites was https://www.34sp.com/ in the UK.

[camerongray]

I wouldn't trust any free hosts - they tend to disappear very quickly and the people running them tend to have questionable skills when it comes to managing and securing the system.

Github is the de-facto standard for open source project hosting and is certainly indexed by Google - I regularly find projects on github, including some of my own which aren't very popular at all.  It also makes it easy for others to collaborate on the project with you, something you can't do with a simple website.  You can then use Github pages (https://pages.github.com/) to build a website which will be hosted on Github as well as be managed through git itself.

[DaveLembke]

cool thanks for the info