RapidShare - News
25. Sep. 2006
RapidShare exists for two years now and we have learned much about the likes, dislikes and demands of our customers. We know that most people want a better support, more speed, much more space (yes, we have a space-problem right now, so the inactivity-timeout of 30 days for free users had to be shortened to 10 days. This is better than to disable the uploads completely.), more features and maybe a better website. Right now we are preparing all this for you, but it still needs a bit of time. Tons of servers with thousands of very big hard-disks are still arriving, many professional employees are getting ready to serve you, the world's biggest providers are preparing dozens of 10-Gigabit ports just for us. RapidShare stays the same, but RapidShare will be much better than RapidShare. Confused? We hope to be ready to present you the future of 1-click file-hosting on 15.10.2006. So stay tuned, and stay with us.
3. Oct. 2006
After some weeks of testing, we decided to go back to our good old 100-MB-per-file limit. The reason is that users felt forced to use the full 300 MB for their archives. Imagine you upload a 300 MB file and for some reasons the upload aborts after 290 MB. You will have to re-upload the whole file in order to complete your upload. Same for downloading. Free-users are not able to resume aborted downloads. Think about modem-users having to re-download a 300 MB file because their provider decided to hang up the modem at 290 MB for some reason. Furthermore you get 3 premium-points for 3*100 MB and just 1 premium-point for 1*300 MB. A win for everyone. Please use programs like WinRar to compress your files to multi-part archives, if they are bigger than 100 MB.
25. Sep. 2006
RapidShare exists for two years now and we have learned much about the likes, dislikes and demands of our customers. We know that most people want a better support, more speed, much more space (yes, we have a space-problem right now, so the inactivity-timeout of 30 days for free users had to be shortened to 10 days. This is better than to disable the uploads completely.), more features and maybe a better website. Right now we are preparing all this for you, but it still needs a bit of time. Tons of servers with thousands of very big hard-disks are still arriving, many professional employees are getting ready to serve you, the world's biggest providers are preparing dozens of 10-Gigabit ports just for us. RapidShare stays the same, but RapidShare will be much better than RapidShare. Confused? We hope to be ready to present you the future of 1-click file-hosting on 15.10.2006. So stay tuned, and stay with us.
3. Oct. 2006
After some weeks of testing, we decided to go back to our good old 100-MB-per-file limit. The reason is that users felt forced to use the full 300 MB for their archives. Imagine you upload a 300 MB file and for some reasons the upload aborts after 290 MB. You will have to re-upload the whole file in order to complete your upload. Same for downloading. Free-users are not able to resume aborted downloads. Think about modem-users having to re-download a 300 MB file because their provider decided to hang up the modem at 290 MB for some reason. Furthermore you get 3 premium-points for 3*100 MB and just 1 premium-point for 1*300 MB. A win for everyone. Please use programs like WinRar to compress your files to multi-part archives, if they are bigger than 100 MB.
