Alternatives to Rapidshare that work now

Use Google Drive or Dropbox, they work well for sharing large PDFs and your students can access them without any hassle. If you prefer something more specific for education, OneDrive or the storage your school provides is also worth checking out.

To share PDFs with your students without getting your account shut down for excessive traffic, Mega or Mediafire are still decent options and more robust than banking on Google limiting your bandwidth (which happens way more often than people think when you've got 200 students downloading the same file at once). The thing nobody mentions is that a lot of students don't check the links before class, so make sure you test them yourself from an incognito browser or ask a colleague to try it, because there's nothing like walking into your 2026 class with 40 kids waiting and the link is down. Honestly Mediafire has given me fewer surprises in that regard, though you could also check out Filemail if the files are really huge.