Any of the DivShare users out there know that they’ve been having troubles keeping up with their excessive growth, and as a result the site has been running pretty slow lately. That’s one of the main reasons we’ve tried to refrain from posting downloads in the last month or two on their site.
They are now collapsing under the pressure, and are resorting to what many people hoped they would never succumb to. All accounts now have both storage and bandwidth restrictions imposed on them to help control “abusive” users. Users with free accounts will receive 5GB of storage space and 50GB of bandwidth per month. Here’s what DivShare had to say about the “new feature”:
We’ve mapped out the new plans so that less than 1 in 10 current users will need to upgrade. In fact, 99% of users use less than 5 GB of storage, and 90% of users serve less than 50 GB of downloads each month. We’re making the change because a very small group of users is using a very large amount of bandwidth and storage space, and by doing so is degrading the DivShare experience for the rest of our 250,000 members.
DivShare does still offer premium accounts which you would have to pay for on a monthly basis, but all of them are still limited in both storage and bandwidth. How about we take a look at their monthly offerings:
- For $6.95/month you get 10GB of storage and 100GB of bandwidth
- For $14.95/month you get 25GB of storage and 250GB of bandwidth
- For $28.95/month you get 50GB of storage and 500GB of bandwidth
What this essentially means is that many users will probably just create several different DivShare accounts, and disperse their downloads across them. For me I’m going to try and find a different host for my files. Heck, I might just go over to GoDaddy where I can get 100GB of storage and 1,000GB of bandwidth for $6.99/month.
On the DivShare blog some users are expressing their concern for the change, but there is some reassurance for existing users. If you’re already over the storage limit your files will not be deleted, but you also won’t be able to upload any new files until you get under the storage limit. On your member homepage you can see how much storage and bandwidth you’re currently eating up, and in one week DivShare will be enforcing the restrictions.
Is this the day DivShare died?
Thanks for the tip Radu!
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Why? PhotoBucket has the same restrictions, and it’s growing and growing each day. Of course, they’re backed by a powerful corporation, but I think divShare won’t have any problems even with those restrictions. Besides, who is going to need so many space and/or bandwidth? If their statistics are real, not many people is going to have problems.
GoDaddy is terrible!!!! Stay away!!!
I know several people who have only been using DivShare because of the unlimited storage that they were able to take advantage of. Not to mention the heavily trafficked sites that used it to embed videos, which will surely eat up the bandwidth. For awhile we were using them for embedding our videos, but this gives us even more reason to stick all of our media on viddler.
I haven’t actually used them before, but I’ll take your word for it. Regardless though, there are plenty of hosts out there that offer extreme amounts of storage and bandwidth for very little money.
I’ll ignore the comment about GoDaddy being terrible unless you are referring to that fact it is violation of our Hosting Terms of Services to use a shared hosting account as file repository.
i’ve put my mail files on go daddy and didnt get to the limit of the hosting and one day the account was canceled.
i called then and they told me that i cannot use the web hosting acount for hosting this kind of files(rar).
so i guess that go daddy is not a solution.
and i think that they limit the thread bandwidth.
Interesting, it seems some of what I have been hearing about GoDaddy is true. I have also heard of issues with them for just buying and managing your domains, though I have never personally had an issue with them for this. I guess as they have grown the problems have become more visible.
Huh, that’s news to me. I know people who setup personal accounts for that purpose, but I’ll turn the other cheek.
I wonder how many other hosts have that policy?
I test-drove GoDaddy for about a month. I had a fully functioning web application that would not run correctly on GoDaddy’s servers. It worked without any issues on two other hosting companies servers. The calls to support were fruitless - “We don’t support issues related to code” is what I was told over and over.
I finally decided it wasn’t worth the hassle since DotNetPark offered a lower cost alternative that included a SQL database that I could use Enterprise Manager with, multiple site under a single account, and much more.
I never had problems with any hosting company except GoDaddy.
We used Yahoo! for awhile for hosting, and I think it is good for the casual user. The only problem we had was that they didn’t give you control over the .htaccess file, which made doing some things extremely difficult.