Comments on: DivShare Upgrades its One-stop shop Free File Hosting Service

By: DivShare - Best of the Free File Host? | The Web Hosting Show

DivShare - Best of the Free File Host? | The Web Hosting Show — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 17:06:27 +0000

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By: DivShare

DivShare — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 22:51:47 +0000

The Divshare experience is so poor that I would not consider using them. To anybody who wishes to entrust theirn files with them, read the DivShare Blog. Problems abound.

By: Peter Scully

Peter Scully — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 16:53:15 +0000

I have to agree about Divshare failing to live up to expectations. The site has been up for more than a year (I think) and they still have no support for download managers - although this was promised 6 months ago.
I think Rapidshare are excellent. And I’ve also just discovered Filefactory, which seems to have a brilliant service. Much much much more efficient that DivShare. It’s very fast and - so far - extremely reliable.
Divshare do have a lot of bells and whistles, but who cares if the speeds are so slooow and the downtimes are increasing?

By: James

James — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:31:09 +0000

Oh. Oops. Pardon me if I missed that info in your article - I couldn’t find the info on Divshare’s site. I also just found that MediaFire does what I want, for free, but with a 100mb-per-file limit. They say they are planning a for-pay premium account for Q3 2007 that will have no filesize limits.

By: Ouriel Ohayon

Ouriel Ohayon — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:21:47 +0000

James > Divshare….

By: James

James — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:19:34 +0000

Ouriel - Do you know of a service that allows for unlimited downloads of several of my files? Rapidshare and others only allow each downloading user to download a certain amount of data per session/day. It’s not unreasonable, but I’d like to be able to allow those users to get all of my numerous files in one sitting, rather than coming back over the course of several days to get them one by one. I’m willing to pay a little for this. Any suggestions? Besides the option of buying more space from my webhost + hosting the files myself. Thanks.

By: Marco

Marco — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 05:39:20 +0000

Ouriel,

oh yes, you are right. But, more complicated than other services, (e.g. I manually need to strip out the code for the full size image… )

By: Asad

Asad — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 07:19:07 +0000

I agree that Divshare is a great system, but its great in its design, not its backend. Ive grown tired of waiting for files to upload because of the slow speed, for the power uploader to literally take a minute or two to load, for uploaded files to fail showing up in my dashboard. This has been an ongoing problem and its a regular gripe fest on each of their blog posts by their users that these issues need to be addressed but haven’t. I sure hope they fix these, cause they have lost lots of potential business due to these issues.

By: Ouriel Ohayon

Ouriel Ohayon — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 06:23:15 +0000

You have file linking in Divshare

By: Marco

Marco — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 05:39:34 +0000

Are there any alternatives? Scribd sucks since more than a week (my documents are still being converted it says!) DivShare is nice, but no real direct linking like imageshack for example…

By: jason carlin

jason carlin — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 02:52:23 +0000

Was this article written by Yoda?

By: Kevin

Kevin — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 20:38:27 +0000

I have been using DivShare since the first day of its launch and have had very few problems with it. Any problems I did find were fixed almost immediately by their responsive support team. I have never had any files lost and no demand that I remove old files. All their updates have proved strong and worthwhile. I’ll be sticking by these guys, no question about it.

I’m very excited by all the great things happening the past few days. And while design isn’t everything, this is a great looking site, something that Rapidshare completely fails at. I can use this as a business tool, and not worry about showing my clients, because it preserves my logo/branding and keeps things clean.

By: Leandro Ardissone

Leandro Ardissone — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 18:25:15 +0000

I’m using it since it launch and is really great.
It’s fully recommended.

By: AnonTroll

AnonTroll — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 18:18:01 +0000

Cool service, upload was faster than expected, but playing the uploaded video is slooooow, perhaps it is due to the techcrunch effect and will smooth out later

By: Fake Richard

Fake Richard — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 16:23:01 +0000

I have heard MSFT is getting into this as well.

http://vidsonly.blogspot.com

By: Web

Web — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 15:35:27 +0000

Flash is just NOT a friendly format for viewing text and somewhat further degrades the quality of audio.

Perhaps members should be given the option of allowing everything to be transformed to Flash - or offered in their native formats

By: filebam

filebam — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 14:59:09 +0000

another addition might be http://www.filebam.com - its quiet similar to divshare but lacking the flash-applets.

By: Peter

Peter — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 14:26:48 +0000

Divshare may be your favorite, but I have repeatedly tried many of the sites you mention over the past 2 years and I found the most reliable was easily sendspace.com. I love their upload/download tool - I have a Mac in work and they have a version for it too, even Linux. They even released an app for iPhone a few weeks ago, a world first - wish I had one of those!

By: Ouriel Ohayon

Ouriel Ohayon — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 14:12:50 +0000

i like Rapidshare too but they only provide upload/download, not viewing/embedding and file management system.

By: Billy

Billy — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 14:00:58 +0000

I have RapidShare and they do not disappoint in terms of maintaining your files and delivering on top download speeds.

By: nonono

nonono — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 13:50:11 +0000

Rapidshare and Megaupload are the only two sites that anyone should consider when it comes to store or share files. I tried divshare. They lost plenty of files. Their service was down several hours every week. During peak times you get 5kbps download speeds and the backend of their system is not capable of massive growth. Its Kindergarten hosting.

By: Steve Ballmer

Steve Ballmer — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 12:59:13 +0000

MS Cloud File Manager is on the way to show you people how this should be done!

http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com

By: Allen Stern

Allen Stern — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 11:58:32 +0000

Great article Ouriel - thanks for the link as well. I like what divshare is doing - I hope articles like this get them some good publicity as I think some of the other services get more visibility across the net but aren’t as innovative and the customer service isn’t as good.

By: FlyingMate

FlyingMate — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 10:16:57 +0000

Interesting!
And I found your mistake : EC3 -> EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud)