Rapidshare Premium

Bad news for Rapidshare Premium users, the file-hoster has decided to cut back daily download quota for premium users to 4 GB daily from 10 GB earlier, which means a reduction from 50 GB per week to 28 GB per week.

In an official press-release the company announced:

Due to the significant number of new users who subscribed to Rapidshare during the last two weeks, we decided to extend our internal resources. In order to maintain the best possible performance for all Premium users, we decided to limit the download capacity to 4 GB for each user during this transitional phase. Premium users will be able to save up to 30 GB of download capacity, if the daily 4 GB volume has not been used.

The new limitation should not affect majority of the users but will certainly hurt few doing heavy downloading on daily basis. If you are not rapidshare service fan and don't like their restrictions, I would suggest giving MediaFire a try, this can truly be a Rapidshare Killer.

Rapidshare.Com - The leaders in one-click file-hosting have introduced direct file downloading options for premium users, now any file can be converted to a direct download and users can download directly bypassing the rapidshare free user limitations.

Rapidshare File Hosting Service:

"RapidShare provides professional web hosting for your website or your company. Our strong infrastructure allows downloads at the highest level while offering attractive conditions.

With RapidShare you can offer your customers the possibility of downloading from 10 mirrors that are connected through five different carriers. No matter where your customers live, they will always experience fast downloads.

RapidShare offers the highest possible system stability through data redundancy. We can guarantee a mean annual availability of 99.7%. In case this is not enough for you, you are hereby allowed to upload your files twice. Chances are 99.5% that your files will then be saved on a different server, boosting availability to amazing 99.95%.

Especially for bigger companies, RapidShare offers a file sharing cluster solution. Your files will be saved on many servers at the same time and your users will be leaded to a random server automatically. This clustering makes it possible to handle a high amount of traffic concurrently, for example on events or important software updates, where a concurrent bandwidth usage of more than 500 MBits is required."

Rapidshare is also giving out 10 GB of free direct download traffic to test the service, additional bandwidth can be purchased at very cheap rates.