File sharing can be a huge burden for webmasters which is why RapidShare has become such an overwhelming success. People go there, upload their file, and let RapidShare worry about hosting it and the bandwidth cost. However, RapidShare has all kinds of things that people hate such as the 60-second delay before you can download and a 100MB filesize limit.
MediaFire has removed all of those rules and can’t get much more perfect than it already is, which is amazing since the site has only been available for around a week. There are no file size limitations which means you could upload a whole ISO image of Linux without any problems! Man, I would love to see some Linux distributions start using this instead of making you use Torrent files, even though those are fast too. You can also download/upload as much as you want AND you can be doing multiple files simultaneously! Best of all is that there are no wait times!
I created an account with them because it allows you to keep track of the files you have uploaded, which makes it easy if I ever need to go back and get the URL. Here is an example file that I uploaded so that you could see what the download page looks like. There are just a few Google Adsense advertisements which are definitely not as obtrusive as some of the other file sharing sites.
I think the best thing is the clean interface. I mean look at how nice their uploader looks:
Any future files that I post to this site I’ll probably just use MediaFire as the host because they seem to really be on top of things. I contacted MediaFire regarding how long they will keep the file available if it hasn’t been downloaded. RapidShare will keep a file on their servers as long as someone downloads it every 30 days, otherwise they will delete it. The MediaFire team promptly (within minutes) responded saying:
While there is currently no time limit on the storage of uploaded files, in the future if the need to delete data should become necessary you will receive an email to the account holders email address notifying you of the impending deletion so that you can manage your files accordingly. Currently any file deletion will be on an as-needed basis and will apply to older and less frequently downloaded files first.
I think RapidShare better keep an eye on what their competitors are doing otherwise they could be headed for a decline!
I’ve always hated RS because of the 60 second delay (gets bigger for bigger files) and because it doesn’t let you download more than 100 mb every hour or something. This site is a much better alternative. And registration was a snap.
They’ll either shut down after a few months, or start enforcing restrictions like rapidshare, bandwidth isn’t cheap.
Yeah, registration was so easy and I didn’t walk away with the feeling that I was going to be receiving thousands of spam messages.
You’re right that bandwidth isn’t cheap but companies like YouTube somehow stayed afloat. I think MediaFire will become extremely successful.
Do someone what happened to their site. there s just a white page and blog is not updated
Looks like they must have just had a brief down time, because it is working for me.
really weird i tried from several computers and browsers and nothing works for me. do you see an contact mail somewhere i could write them?
Yep, here is their email address: feedback@mediafire.com
agree wholeheartedly all the delays n waits after this n that cant b azzed .. mediafiles and file2upload are far better
Actually, our newest favorite is now Divshare…and if you haven’t tried them out I highly recommend that you do.
uh huh…divshare is ok, its sort of like mediafire in a way – its kind of similar. i use mediafire more though, as to the earlier remark about MediaFire self-destructing itself, apparently, it has been here for about 3/4 of a year, and it’s still well and strong.
i don’t know about you, but i HATE rapidshare and this is a much better alternative – also 100mb limit, but it wont delete inactive files, and there is no stupid inhibiting limits if you are not some premium member or whatever. i love this service!
Yeah, I definitely hate rapidshare as well. I crunge every time I see a rapidshare download link.
heheh Ryan you are right…it seems like SO many people use those rapidshar links and i’m like…oh boy, here we go again…(on the so-called rapidshare nightmare). funniest thing is that, rapidshare is not even rapid! It’s slower than mediafire!
rapid share is good pay the member fee dosent cost that much i can download 1g in 20 mins tried all the rest now where as good
That comment was written on October 30th, 2006 at 8:08 pm and I guess it has been a “few” months now and MF is still up and running and has received so many awards from top computer magazines.
hello
i have tried mediafire after your introduction to it , but i can conclude that rapidshare has its reasons of success over mediafire, its average speed of upload is just around 300kb/s while I can have an average of 1000kb/s of upload to rapidshare using their uploading program, the test was carried out under the same computer & the same isp in peak hours, by the way, i don’t think 60 sec or 90sec ( i am not sure about the exact seconds) for rapidshare free user to wait is a long time to go but the attention paid in between caused much more trouble (esp when you download files with lots of splitted small files), however, such problem can be readily solved by using some programs like CryptLoad which could make you do one time and let everything go on itself.
But mediafire has an easy signup procedure (just email and password) , and an account for the user to login to easily manage the files he had uploaded, this is the advantage over rapidshare.
yeap I just HATE RapidShare it make me wait like 300 sec. after I download 1 file.
but, no more for Media Fire
On Sep 4 2009 I’m getting 120KB/sec DL from Rapidshare. I only rarely use it, yet today I got the “free user limit” message. If I was on a fixed IP address or didn’t know how to use proxies I’d be screwed.
I look forward to more folks using MediaFire and other free distribution sites. We need to let people know alternative sites exist.
hey i have a blog and i used to post mp3 songs which can be download
for that i used both media fire and rapid share
yes as many of you said media fire is better than rapid share but what happenend
is out of the total files uploded to media fire and rapid share are almost similar songs ,many of my files which were downloaded are only from RS ,
i can’t understand why people are showing more interest on downloading a file from RS than media fire