[Abi79]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Gargantuan Orangutan @ Nov 13 2006, 09:35 PM) [snapback]266789[/snapback]</div>

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Abi79 @ Nov 13 2006, 09:41 AM) [snapback]266751[/snapback]

They delete files not downloaded after 30 days, you know...
(and MegaUpload? That thing sucks; popups and slots for countries)
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That's the price you may for free file servers. The only other option is to pay for your own hosting. Are you willing to do that?
[/b][/quote]I see your point. Now let me show you why I think RapidShare is better. While it does not have the "resume downloads" capability, it is used by many people because of the following things:

• Good enough upload and download speed (over 50 kb/s usually for both things)
• Ability to have collector's account, where you can see what you've uploaded and when the files were last downloaded. Thus, you can see which you need to access to avoid deletion. Also, if people download your files enough times, you can even get a premium account for free!
• Folders. With them, you can sort your files, and if you're doing something like in the following screenshot with the description, can even see when a file is down, and you do not need to try all of them before.

(notice the "14 x 100 MB" and the "14 files" things? by writing in the description how many files must be in that folder, you can see when one is missing, as the numbers won't be the same)

• RapidUpload - A software made by RapidShare used for uploading files (to your collector's account also, if you want to).
• No popups (at least with Firefox), slots of things like that. Of course there is the time limit before you can download a file and the time between downloads which needs to pass, but since nowadays most (not all, most) people have a Dynamic IP, the latter shouldn't be a problem.

Now, what about MegaUpload? Well, it has slots, and that in my opinion is bad. Really bad. For example, only 50 Romanians (yes, 50!) can download at the same time (and think that we are 21.7 milion people in this country). They claim that the slots limit dissapears if you download their toolbar, but that it in my humble opinion would not be a good idea. Also, they state on their site that only with the toolbar one can resume a download. Am I right?