sujith Posted May 16, 2014 Share Posted May 16, 2014 Rapidshare was once one of the most popular file hosting websites in the world. It started to go downhill a couple of years ago when the company changed its business model significantly to a file owner paid hosting model. While that was beneficial to users who only downloaded from the file hosting site, it limited paying customers to a certain transfer ratio per day. Since download limits were removed, incentives to sign up for a paid account to improve download performance on Rapidshare or download more than a certain amount of data became non-issues. Affiliates promoted Rapidshare prior to the change to downloaders who wanted to avoid slow downloads and bandwidth limitations. With the incentive gone, many turned to other file hosting services instead. Less than a year later, Rapidshare announced that it would drop the unlimited storage plan that it had offered previously. Users who were over the limit suddenly faced the decision to pay a lot of money for their data storage, or turn to different hosting providers instead. Then two months later news of layoffs made the round and things went downhill ever since. The last subscription plan change was announced September 2013 and things went quiet afterwards. A notification is displayed to Rapidshare users who visit the website as of today. Rapidshare notifies its customers that it made the decision to terminate standard plans completely on the site In addition to shutting down the standard plan as of July 1, 2014, it announced the pricing of the two plans it will offer in the future:Standard Plus for €49.99 per monthPremium for €99.99 per month Last year, accounts were available for €8.21 and €16.43 per month respectively which means that account prices have been increased by the factor six. It is not clear if they will provide the same benefits as the old accounts, or if storage capacities or bandwidth per day has been increased as part of the price increase. The offering page highlights the same storage capacities and the new prices which is a strong indicator that Rapidshare increased the price for each paid account type but kept everything else as is. The company recommends that free users upgrade their account to a paid account, or backup the data that they have stored on Rapidshare prior to July 1, 2014. Rapidshare did not mention what it plans to do with data uploaded by free account users after July 1. It is however very likely that it will be deleted. The removal of the free account option may make sense from a business perspective. But a price increase by the factor six is surely going to cause a mass exodus by existing users of the service.While I have no information about Rapidshare's financials, it appears likely that the majority of paying users will shut down their account and migrate to another file hosting company instead. Considering that you get 10 Terabyte of storage on Google Drive for the price of Rapidshare's Premium account, it is almost certain that a lot of users will move their data to other companies Source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lurch234 Posted May 16, 2014 Share Posted May 16, 2014 Less than a year later, Rapidshare announced that it would drop the unlimited storage plan that it had offered previously. Users who were over the limit suddenly faced the decision to pay a lot of money for their data storage, or turn to different hosting providers instead.I deleted everything and moved on. I got tired of the uploading business anyways because there was too much fierce competition from the professional uploaders. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CODYQX4 Posted May 16, 2014 Share Posted May 16, 2014 (edited) . Edited April 28, 2019 by CODYQX4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lurch234 Posted May 17, 2014 Share Posted May 17, 2014 I'm glad through sites like this and the occasional Torrent for stuff like ISOs that I can get everything without downloading 50+ RAR files on a crap connection with artificial wait times. We've definitely gotten better over the years I agree. It's nice to have a forum more inclined in sharing with posters giving good access to the stuff. I sorta miss the good ol' days of Filesonic and its offspring Fileserve before everything went upside down in 2012.Everybody uploaded to these two hosters. So you only had to buy premium accounts from them and you had fast access to almost everything! But that was yesterday :(Fortunately, we also have a few decent companies that lets us download from many file hosting companies. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GRiM Posted May 17, 2014 Share Posted May 17, 2014 Less than a year later, Rapidshare announced that it would drop the unlimited storage plan that it had offered previously. Users who were over the limit suddenly faced the decision to pay a lot of money for their data storage, or turn to different hosting providers instead.I deleted everything and moved on. I got tired of the uploading business anyways because there was too much fierce competition from the professional uploaders.I'm glad through sites like this and the occasional Torrent for stuff like ISOs that I can get everything without downloading 50+ RAR files on a crap connection with artificial wait times. We've definitely gotten better over the years.I have been using internet for roughly 20 years and have never seen the need to use such services for downloading/sharing releases? Plenty of other better, faster and earlier ways to get them via FTP, Usenet, p2p etc. Fair enough the odd smaller file yes but bothering to get large/split releases via cyber lockers is just frankly a waste of time and pointless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deunan Posted May 17, 2014 Share Posted May 17, 2014 Wait... People still use RapidShare :wtf: ... Remember when Hotfile & Cyberlocker was all the rave? No? Haven't used RapidShare since they capped the download speed for free users... Death of RapidShare... Moment of Silence... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackchildcx Posted May 17, 2014 Share Posted May 17, 2014 I stick since first day with share-online....I saw rapidshare grow and fall....But that happens to you if you get to creedy...Anyway I think that federal laws are also a big thing to handle for file hosters...Uploaded also paid lots of bucks cause they have to block uploaded pirated stuff quick..But 50 bucks a month?....Dude they must be crazy cause this is walking dead coming to get them.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arizin Posted May 18, 2014 Share Posted May 18, 2014 Rapid share is useless ! Now users must move on to better alternatives like Mediafire.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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