So much for the "we promise this downtime will be to your benefit" I kept getting from them yesterday. I vote mediafire... 4shared is almost useless on my line for some reason.

Uh oh... doesn't sound too good for RS.

Think of the tons of uploads MF dropped already. MCP, Sheepy...
If you go for MF name the files "Mothers last Birthday.avi" or so.

RS has revamped their interface.Presumably that is why they had some downtime...but they did not seem to be down for very long. It is still working just fine for my purposes and I plan to keep using it. I regard my collection as an archival alternative to the ones on MG which are "archived but unavailable" At least mine are "available".

Keeping this site going is like living on a rainy beach in a sandcastle...

they limited guest user traffic to a maximum of 6 kB/s

Rapidshare: The Anti-Rapid Company

If you go for MF name the files "Mothers last Birthday.avi" or so.

With the kind of resources at these corporations' disposal, it would probably be trivial to scan all uploads' content for file formats that don't match extensions (eg. a zipped ISO posing as an AVI), and red-flag them for review or delete them at once.

Yes, a fake extension would be too trivial.
I just wanted to point to the (known) fact, that bulldogs are scanning the filenames and make MF delete them. In the past the third "suspect" name would let MF delete your whole collection without notice.
I had to learn that the hard way.

I´m not going to re-upload anything seriously until a working internal server for MG is found.
As I workaround I´m using Ubuntu One meanwhile (5GB free storage).

annother one bites the dust.

Using mediafire is even worse, i lost my entire account with no notice (despite their claims i had ignored warnings, i just came home one day to a email saying my account was suspended) so did sheep and MCP

4shared is my current favourite, however you need a account to download form them don't you?

I'll download all those linked above and stick them on the http portion of my server (with no speed limits)

I´m not going to re-upload anything seriously until a working internal server for MG is found.

Don´t hold your breath,
3+ years and still waiting...

----->Please could someone mirror them to another server, please ?
(so far used on Macintosh Garden: MEGA, mediafire, 4shared.com, dropbox, sendspace)<-------

That is a good idea, if someone is prepared to re-mirror the files I make available on my RS account. While I still have the paid account I will use it. However, if RS finally makes guest downloads unavailable completely, I will look for alternatives, but moving over 250GB of files is not something I want to do, so alternative mirroring in advance is a very good idea.

That's too intensive. Rapidshare is getting worse in the future.
I will mirror these items by downloading it (hense i have 5Mbps internet) and then mirror it to max1zzz's server. For smaller files, I will use Google drive.

BTW, only registered users of Rapidshare can download files.

-->BTW, only registered users of Rapidshare can download files.<----

Not true yet...although it might come to that

I still like 4Shared. With a free, no-nonsense membership, you can download 5+ files at once at full speed. I use this method constantly with FPS Legends/Adventure Legends downloads (PS. there are a few mac titles uploaded there too). Makes getting split CD images a breeze. Worth at least a few test files.

I am still getting a lot of downloads of my RS files even though the D/L rate is very low, so I think I will persist with RS for the time being. I guess this will not be popular for some, but that is my choice. Others can always start making alternative links, as has already started. Think of it this way...if I just made a list of links without making pages, I suspect some people might be just pleased to have some access (albeit slow) to the files at all, and if the D/L was not important enough to them then they just not bother.

So far as placing the 250GB elsewhere, yes, a private server is the best but not everyone has access to an ISP that will allow that as a practical option. An alternative to house the 250 GB of files on an "ongoing basis" has to be paid for, and someone has to copy them over. I have paid once and copied once, and I won't be doing it again for that 250GB. I do have copies of all the files... but then so do a whole lot of others who have downloaded copiously over the time. Kitchen2010, are you planning to host the files? That would be a great service to our community, and you obviously have strong feelings about the looming RS situation.

If anyone wants a private server to backup their files on, email me, i don't mind giving large amounts of space to people here to backup their files on (Disk space permitting, but i just added 2TB more to the server : ) )

I can also provide hosting if anyone is interested, but i would have to limit how much of that i can do.

it's not so much traffic that worries me (I have 20mbp/s upstream and we don't even max that with my main server) More the fact that if everything on my main server is also available at a uncapped speed from me i will loose my uploads, which would kinad make the min server pointless

However, i could offer maybe 250GB of uncapped storage for mg users

Well it's looks like that we can only download larger files once per day from Rapidshare. Attempt to download a large file after you downloaded a large file, you will get this:
ERROR: Daily traffic exhausted, upgrade now! (9fe01260)
Then a message appears stating that the file exceed the free user's daily limit and they require to upgrade their account.

How big is MG's files in toto and how many files are they?