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Dell ·
As many of you know the US Government took down Megaupload. It appears Megaupload had one of their servers in the United States.
I've seen a few members use Mediafire to host OSMs. It may be wise to look elsewhere considering Mediafire have their servers in the United States.
There are plenty of free cloud servers you can use that are safer. You can even create a server in your home using services such as dropbox if you prefer to go that route.
I've had very good experiences with cloud servers for approximately 3 years. If you have any questions regarding cloud servers feel free to ask.
jobro ·
I myself try to stay as far away from public file-sharing sites as possible nowadays because the risk of the sites being taken down for "copyright infringements". These big companies don't give up do they? Didn't think so, which raises my next question:
Wouldn't a more adequate solution to the file-sharing issue be to put up a server hosted by Outsim to host our files on? I'd gladly pay a few quids / month to have say 1GB of storage space. The technology keeps improving, which lowers the prices, which in the long run makes it easier for anyone to start up a server. I don't have the proper knowledge how to put up such a server, but I bet some here has.
I myself use Dropbox as an alternative.
Dell ·
Hi.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts. Bear in mind the amount of bandwidth used by down loaders will attribute if such an idea you suggested would work.
I recall having a cloud server shutdown all access to my files from the public for one month when I exceeded 10 gigabytes within the first week of June. Today, I have seven cloud servers available publicly and, four privately to prevent such an incident occurring again.
The above is one of the reasons host such as mediafire, rapidshare and so forth are popular amongst pirates.
Synthmaker has a huge community despite seeing only a few contributing on the forums so it would require a large server to maintain the pressure of various visitors accessing the server.
This is why I suggested Cloud Servers for they are privately held and you will need to create an account in order to use them. Fortunately, there are many across the world, which will enable you to cater for your customers/clients who download your designs within their region. I really believe this is the new standard for file storage for those who do not want to offer their designs on unscrupulous servers.
Cheers!
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