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[CHEFS PLEASE READ] Alternative sites for our rom storage!

Right now, most chefs are using Rapidshare to store their roms. If they want to continue doing so to earn points, that's fine. However, it makes downloading roms extremely difficult for people who are in countries in which Rapidshare restricts access. Rapdishare also uses a very advanced CAPTCHA for non-members that takes 2 or 3 tries (with 120 second delays in between each attemt) to solve. Try logging out of your rapidshare account to see what I'm talking about..
If you'd like to give your downloaders the fastest access possible to your roms, I have put together a list of sites that are superior to existing methods. The sites below had to pass a series of tests:
For uploading:
At least 100mb file limit
No account or sign up needed.
Truly 1-click: Arrive at the site, click upload file, thats it.
For downloading:
No account or sign up needed
No captcha codes
no timers or waiting period
No country or regional restrictions for downloading
truly 1-click: download instantly starts with one click.
http://www.filedropper.com - 5gb (Best site IMO. Most usuable, largest file size limit, tenured... not a "fly by night" file storage service)
http://www.mediafire.com - 100mb
http://www.filesend.net - 120mb
http://www.snapdrive.net - 500mb
http://www.Sendspace.com - 300mb
http://sharedzilla.com - 1GB
http://www.badongo.com - 1GB
CONCLUSION:
Filedropper.com by a mile. However, even though all 7 of these sites are awesome, they are all free which means none of them (even filedropper) are guaranteed to last. If we want to ensure availability for our uploads WE ALL NEED TO BE USING ASAPLOAD.COM for our rom uploads. It provides 1-CLICK UPLOADS TO 8 MAJOR FREE FILE STORAGE SITES AT ONCE, 3 of which are mentioned above! (See next paragraph for Complete list)
*IMPORTANT NOTE FOR UPLOADERS!*When uploading, you can only choose 4 of the 8 available hosting sites. BE SURE THAT YOU CHOOSE BODONGO, SHAREDZILLA, AND SENDSPACE! The fourth mirror is up to you since the rest of them all have annoying timers. Your uploaded file is given a single link, and from that link users can choose which of the 4 download sites they would like to download from. Here is an example link http://asapload.com/110261 (the photo is of my and my gf if you were wondering). The other nice thing is that it gives you the download link as soon as the file transfer begins, so you can post the link as it is uploading.
ASAPLOAD.com uploads to:
Badongo.com (1.00 Gb) awesome
Sendspace.com (300.00 Mb) awesome
Sharedzilla.com (1.00 Gb) awesome
Depositfiles.com (300.00 Mb, 60 sec download delay)
Easy-share.com (100.00 Mb, 20 sec download delay, captcha)
Megaupload.com (100.00 Mb, pain in the butt)
Rapidshare.com (100.00 Mb, pain in the butt)
Zshare.net (100.00 Mb, 60 sec download delay)
Look, even if you don't use ASAPLOAD.COM, just uploading with any one of the sites i mentioned at the top of the post will help everyone else out by sparing them that awful 120 second timer and by giving users in other countries hassle free access.
Honorable Mentions:
http://www.uploadcomet.com - 2,000mb filesize limit but 30 second delay timer before download
http://www.rarhost.com - 250mb limit specifically for hosting rar files, including split archives. Displays contents of archive online. Unlimited split rar files.

www.uploaded.to 250 MB free!

xmoo said:
www.uploaded.to 250 MB free!
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I tried that one man. It was so slow I couldn't even complete the upload of a jpg image. Sorry.

I would request you repost this information in the Development and hacking forum so ALL the types of phones can benefit from your excellent post. I started to just quote it but I'd like you to get full credit for your work.

Rapidshare was fine till they went to that damn cat image.
I see the cat image, I immediately close out the window or look for a mirror.

dockular said:
Guys, why are we still using Rapidshare? I have put together a list of sites that are far superior to rapidshare and megaupload. The sites below had to pass a series of tests:
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Nice post, and I agree with Famewolf that you should put this up in the top of the forums (not Kaiser specific).
I also agree with I don't understand why some people continue to use RapidShare and Megaupload when they are such a pain for so many people.
2 others I would suggest (They do require an account for uploading so fail that criteria that you set) is:
www.2shared.com
www.4shared.com
I really like 4shared and how you can do the folders and have a private and public areas all in the same account. Also like how 4shared lets you setup a subdomain easily to access your folders.
I'll have to give asapload.com a whirl. I used to use Sendspace a lot but some people complained about it (and the files will disappear after 30 days if nobody downloads it), but cool that this asapload.com using it and others.
Thanks for this info!

For example...sendspace is already error'ing out on your example pic...
Mirrors
Sendspace.com
Sorry, an error occurred.
Sharedzilla.com
Download l_265ac9e5d948e1f9a14306b5b0560b5f.jpg from Sharedzilla.com

famewolf said:
For example...sendspace is already error'ing out on your example pic...
Mirrors
Sendspace.com
Sorry, an error occurred.
Sharedzilla.com
Download l_265ac9e5d948e1f9a14306b5b0560b5f.jpg from Sharedzilla.com
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i figured sendspace had recently changed an upload protocol or something so I assumed that in the next day or two asapload.com would have it corrected. either way, 3 other working mirrors is still better than 1, right! i will post this to the main xda forum. Thanks for giving me the credit famewolf!

I like drop.io myself, 100mb free and atleast for what Ive been using it for is quick.

famewolf said:
You wouldn't like rapidshare (what an oxymoron) if you were trying to download something in 12 parts and being told you have to wait 2 hours between each part.
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Hmmm... Never bothered me. Of course I am a premium member & don't mind paying for things that work. But some people think apps should be okay as warez too.
Most people that use RS or Mega, use it because they have premium accts there & truly, I can't remember the last time either of those two were down.
BTW, you missed Filedropper.
http://www.filedropper.com/ - 5GB Limit

Nice list. Sticky would be good. Having to get premium status when there are WAY better alternatives for free is just plain stupid.
If someone provides something as a legit service for free, that has nothing to do with warez. That is a rediculous comparison. Do you use a paid email a account because Gmail's multi-gigabyte free service is like warez?

GSLEON3, its just that not everyone on this board has a paid account. In fact, most don't. I think giving people alternatives that work just as well and don't require money is going to be met with less resistance than getting an entire forum to start paying for a service.
Free, no signups, increased file size limits for non members, no captchas, and no time delays on the downloads.... why play devil's advocate to that, man? Just trying to help the entire community out at large.
I love filedropper, but I left it off because at the time of writing they weren't accepting any new uploads... wasn't sure what was going on. I'll edit my first post now!

Thanks for sharing the list of hosting sites.
Btw, cute gf

SouthernLuke said:
Rapidshare was fine till they went to that damn cat image.
I see the cat image, I immediately close out the window or look for a mirror.
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I agree, that darn cat! Don't mind waiting a little while to DL a file but when you question my being able to "see" those cats in THAT particular pose, in 4 or so letters... let just be nice and say KMA.
Anything seems better for me....

Rapidshare has been giving "happy hours" lately. Which means, u can download withouth waiting nor putting any captcha

Free 50GB storage.
Try www.adrive.com It gives 50GB free storage.
Enjoy

12ka4 said:
Try www.adrive.com It gives 50GB free storage.
Enjoy
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While adrive.com does indeed give you 50gb of storage and let you make files shareable or not with no deletion the author specifically said he did not want hosts that REQUIRE you to create an account and adrive does.

famewolf said:
While adrive.com does indeed give you 50gb of storage and let you make files shareable or not with no deletion the author specifically said he did not want hosts that REQUIRE you to create an account and adrive does.
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Not to mention, I really don't think roms will be pushing the GB limit any time this decade. I could be wrong though!! Good info on Adrive for other needs like HDD backup, though. Thanks.

We should have moved to torrents a long time ago. Encouraging seeding and leeching wont be a problem for serial ROM flashers.If your download times out youre screwed,especially on RapidShare. I dont use download accelerators anymore.

Rapidshare & MegaUpload are the worse and sendspace downloads SLOW most of the time. Whenever I upload, I go MediaFire all the way.

A FREE FileHost for THE Community

Hi Peeps,
We all want to get our downloads as easy as possible!
We all want to upload our roms, builds, Apps, cabs and fixes as easy as possible!
But not all filehosters are easy or free.
I'm gonna try and help all of us.
I setup a domain for all to use for FREE, up to 300MB per file.
When your files don't get downloaded, they will be deleted after 30 day from last download.
If you want to support this project you can get a Premium account, and you will get up to 500MB per file, and files will not be deleted, like the free account.
I would like to know from the WinMo Chefs, Android Builders & App Creators what they think of it, and if they will use it?
Feel free to check it out @ www.bytefiles.com
The first public post is in the:
General HD2 Forum

Spam plus trolling this equals a double ban but the idea is good, but it's not really an alternative it has the same functions and less feature I would just use multiupload or mediafire they are the best so far when it comes to features and funticionality.

Just use multiupload will be easier.

Samsunguy said:
Spam plus trolling this equals a double ban but the idea is good, but you still have to pay.
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Let's hope the idea is goog enough to not double ban me
And most roms and builds are not larger then 300MB, so it's free if they want it.
And the download will only be deleted if it's not downloaded.
Only more options if you want to support me!

Tnx for voting people! ! !

A great service to store your data

Hi All,
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Copy - 15 + 5gig Cloud Storage

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It also has this nice fair storage feature, it works this way: If three people are in a 12gig shared folder, you will only use 4 gigs of your own storage. It's like splitting the paycheck.
copy.com
Oh, and here's my referral code.
https://copy.com?r=EX1kxc
NOTE to moderators: if this thread is against the rules, please delete it. I'm sorry for if its against the rules.

binaryfalcon, in my opinion there are better options:
Google gives you just ~15 GB, but it's integrated with the other services and has a good sync API.
Mega gives you 50GB and promises to give a full sync API & more in the near future.
Cheers!

Great post!
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Thanks and cheers everyone!
By the way, I love xda forum, I've been able to do a lot of tricks on my devices along the years and been learning a lot as well

Thank you. I'm going to try it.

Copy =)
My link https://copy.com?r=7o8JD0

lol, if you don't mind sticking to browser for access, Tencent gives you 10TB (yes, not 10GB, but 10"TB") for free. I haven't uploaded 10TB worth of stuff yet so I don't know how well it works, and I don't know how they'll treat the data you upload, but judging from their well known, good, reputation, I'm guessing they're pretty trustworthy.

Dropbox alternative, in my opinion it's better [Copy.com]

Hello everyone! I wanted to share what I've found. First let me express my newly found hate for Dropbox. I have about 100gb space on Dropbox and I thought "How cool if I could just backup my pictures and documents to dropbox and have it reflected on EVERY computer I own!" So I did that. BIG mistake. Having 50,000+ files made it reindex frequently and bogged down my computer multiple times a day for 5 minutes or so (sometimes more). Huge pain.
I set out and tried out A TON of different services that offered very good pricing and similar functionality.
I found my #1!
The company is called Copy.com, from what I read they're supposedly very good.
Here's the awesome news. They START with 15gb free data. Here's my referral:
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It gets another 5gb for you (and me)... So 20gb free to start.
For EVERY person you get to sign up under your own referral, you get another 5gb. I think it's a great idea! They want to get their name out there. hehe. At the moment they say there is no limit to the number of people you can invite. I saw some guy has 600gb+ right now. Crazy, huh? They also say it's for life.
Now, I know you can sign up without my referral (you'd get less space) but if you do sign up, I'd appreciate it if you clicked that link to get me some extra space as well.
On to my personal opinion about the service:
I like the space, that's for sure.
It's also a fairly stable app. I haven't had any crashes or anything like that.
The company offers 30 versions of your document / file. I think this is a MUST. I don't know how many times I feel like something has gone wrong and I wanted to go back to another version.
Speed? Well... I have a 105mb down and 11.5mb upload speed. My upload speed uses about half, while my download isn't an issue at all. I wrote them to see why I'm uploading so slowly. But uploading at 500kb/sec isn't that bad.
The mobile app is actually really good! It's really easy to use
Here's a big one: FAIR STORAGE! Finally! Something Dropbox doesn't understand :-\... If I share a folder that has 10GB and I share it with another person, just one other person, it wouldn't take 10 of my GB and 10 of the other person's. It would take 5 from me and 5 from the other person! If it's between 3..., well... 10/3= 3.33GB each! THANKS! Finally! Dropbox would take your 10 plus another persons 10. So 10GB of files would be 20gb with 1 other person. Shared with 10 people, it would be 100gb!!! Not 10! Arg.
I think it makes a great companion for my Note 2 because all my pictures are synced up there and they load REALLY fast! (not like my Skydrive account, REALLY slow at loading, and lack of versioning for anything other than documents). You can also share files publicly very easily as well.
So give it a try! I think it's worth it. I've already moved the majority of my files off of Dropbox and my CPU is thanking me from all the reindexing.

This is why referral threads are prohibited.
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Ya tis thread will be deleted i think. But i did signup as i share photos with my familie on dropbox and one day it was all deleted for some odd reason so just hope this is better.
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