Hosting options for publicly available data So you've decided to support the idea of reproducible research and want to make your data available online for people to see and use. The question is, where do you host it?
My first inclination is of course the private webspace I have on a university server, but these things aren't actually all that persistent - if I leave, the directory stays open a very short period of time before it vanishes. Hardly the right setting for keeping data available for people to use and work with in the future.
Do you use something like GitHub or SourceForge? Or another service?
The data in question is the output of some simulations of very narrow interest - so I don't necessarily think somewhere like InfoChimps or another one of the public data repositories is the right home for it. This is less "You can learn things with this code!" and more "You can replicate Figure 3 in this paper".
 A: One simple option is github. 
I use it a bit to share data and data analysis code. A few good examples of others sharing code and data on the site are listed on this question. 
Benefits of github


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*Easy to upload once you get familiar with git, and why not use git for your version control needs.

*You can use gists for simple single files

*It's easy for others to download single or multiple files as an archive

*It has a good amount of free storage

*source code can be browsed on the internet

*and more...


Of course, github isn't perfect for data. I can see the merits of using a more permanent institutional repository or some other dedicated tool for more serious archiving.
A: Another option seems to be Dataverse, which is available as a service and as open source software. I did not try it, though.
A: One possibility for those in academe is the use of a campus digital repository often hosted by campus libraries (to me a logical locus for datasets that accompany publications).
A popular (free) digital repository is DSpace which, to my understanding, can host data sets. But this is a service that someone in your institution must host. 
