VIPeers is a new one of its kind hybrid free file-sharing service allowing users to share files upto 5 GB in size with ease, to share files users simply need to upload it using the web-based uploader or the PODMailing software, Once uploaded VIPeers provides direct HTTP download links with option to share file using the BitTorrent protocol without the hassle of creating .torrent file, adding trackers, and even the seeding.

To make things even more easier VIPeers offers copy-and-paste code snippets for effortless sharing of uploaded files on blogs, forums, social-networks and websites.

one of the world's biggest file-hosting service started their service on domain rapidshare.de, after a major infra-structure upgrade everything got shifted to the new rapidshare.com domain, However the old infra-structure and service is still functional and the good thing is that rapidshare.de allows file uploads upto 300 MB in size while the new service has a 100 MB file-size limit.