Thanks to Lifehacker, DLS, gHacks and many other blog sites, UploadJockey is probably one of the most popular website that offers free service to upload file to multiple file hosting servers today. Well it started off good but there’s a lot of competition nowadays and I think it’s time for an update. When I posted a list of file spreading websites, I missed out one which is KiloUpload. At first I thought it was just a normal uploader website which is able to upload to multiple sites but it actually has some very useful features that’s worth taking a look.

Kiloupload uploads multiple files to multiple servers

First of all KiloUpload supports queuing up to 5 files and spreading to 12 file hosting sites. That means you can select up to 5 files which you want to upload and it will upload one by one until all 5 files are uploaded. Not many file spreader website supports this feature. Out of the 22 which I posted last week, only 3 websites (UploadJockey, X-Mirrors and KoooraUp) has this feature and the rest can only upload one at a time. Uploading multiple parts can be a problem if there is a limit to upload one file at a time. Here comes the more exciting features which are not found in other websites that creates mirrors for your files.

Another annoying limitation imposed on most file spreaders are the file size limit. An example is UploadJockey which has a 200MB maximum upload size because it has to follow the file hosting limit size too. If you have a 1GB file to upload, then you will need to split it into 5 parts at 200MB each. As for KiloUpload, it supports up to a whopping 2GB maximum upload size. All you need to do is compress the file into RAR format and the server will help you split it after you’ve finished uploading a huge file followed by uploading to multiple file hosting sites. In short, you can easily and automatically upload 10GB of files through KiloUpload.

An excellent feature which can only be found on KiloUpload is the FTP upload. Theoretically the best method to upload files is using FTP because that is a standard network protocol that is meant for uploading files, not your web browser. You can create a free KiloUpload FTP account from their website, connect to the FTP server via a FTP program such as FileZilla and upload as normal. Once you’ve finished uploading to KiloUpload FTP, the server will then start uploading to file hosting websites and finally send you an email containing the links to your file.

Uploading files using FTP is faster compared to web browser. On one of my server which has a very fast connection, I was able to upload at a speed of 1.5MBps using FTP compared only a crappy 20KBps using Firefox. (Perhaps there’s a hidden configuration to increase the upload speed in Firefox?)
FTP upload speed
web browser upload speed
Using FTP also allows you to resume your upload in case an interruption occurs. Finally, if you’re uploading a compatible video file, KiloUpload is able to automatically generate an image thumbnail.

In my opinion, I’d say that KiloUpload is the BEST website to help you spread your files across multiple hosting server. The only feature that KiloUpload probably lacking is the Remote Upload which I’ve already requested and hopefully it can handle remote uploading multiple big files.

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