It seems like every day a new company comes along with a service that lets you send huge files over email. Or rather, they let you upload a file to a server and then send the download link to a friend. Filemail may be one of the newer kids on the block, but there's a lot to like about this service.

Filemail lets users send files up to 2GB for free. You can also password protect your files, and customize how many times each file can be downloaded and how many days it will be available on the site. Filemail also lets you ZIP and encrypt multiple files. And you can receive email notification when a file is downloaded.

When we took Filemail for a spin, the upload and download speeds were good, but not spectacular, at around 200KB/s. We've had problems with corrupted files the last few times we've tried our previous favorite file sending service, so it's nice to find another alternative.

For $2.91 per month you can sign up for a premium account and send files up to 5GB. Or if you want to send files up to 25GB, you can snag a corporate account for $24.91 per month. Premium and Corporate account holders get a few other benefits as well, including the ability to leave files onine for longer periods, and an option to let each file be downloaded more than 20 times (which is the limit for free users).

[via MakeUseOf]

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Once upon a time if you wanted to share files too large to send as email attachments, you would upload them to an FTP site. But not everyone has an FTP site lying around, and so web services like YouSendIt, MailBigFile, and Driveway have stepped up to the plate. While YouSendIt it probably the most familiar name of the bunch, the service only lets users send files up to 100MB for free. For larger file transfers you need to pay a fee.

EatLime has a 1GB file size limit (although you need to register for a free account to send files larger than 100MB). That alone doesn't make the service unique. But EatLime also has one killer feature that most other services lack: You can share download links with others before you've finished uploading a file, and they can begin downloading while you're still uploading.

EatLime, formerly known as YouSwap, also has a nice clean interface, easy to use tools for managing your files, and a contact manager for keeping track of the folks you regularly share files with.

Update 5/08/08: When we first took this service for a spin in March it was awesome. But in the following months we've had problems with EatLime corrupting files we've tried to share, and suffering from downtime. The service has a lot of potential, but right now its performance is just too inconsistent to recommend for sharing important files.