Filefactory Discussion Thread - Post your discussions related to Filefactory here.

[colie]

keep getting cannot move files to storage pls retry...
have to reupload the files again & again

colie Reviewed by colie on 8th Jun 2012. Filefactory Discussion Thread - Post your discussions related to Filefactory here. As no filehost is immune to what has been happening, put a question on will support 2 days ago. They said this: http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/1139/getsarkf.png So be careful when making uploading warez, because this will be a reason for them not having to pay to the affiliate. Rating: 5

[Godric]

i see on the site that free users only allowed 500gb

do premium users have unlimited storage? also can we upgrade accounts using our balance?

[zyberakuma]

@Godric

YES for both question.

[amartin99]

in theory you should be just fine
but that's a lot of space to use up
if your not generating more then the $10 a month that you pay them
they may well find some excuse to get rid of you
probably not but the point of a backup is to be 100% sure

if your not going to be posting there links for download
I think you should contact them about your plans before uploading
personally id go with RS for backup
they are so massive it's unlikely they would care
though there are people somehow scanning there servers and posting for download
I have thousands of backup files just numbers for names
and still they get downloaded somehow

[TBDragon]

hmm but i don`t have the much guys to download from my links to get 10$ in month

in my free account 2$ in 1 years

and rs is so expensive

[alientech]

They are not good for backups. You will find that a lot of your files are corrupted or inaccessible. Megaupload was great in that respect. Also what they say or write does not matter, it is how they react and act over time that matters. I have had entire directories of files get deleted from many accounts both free and premium. I cant imagine that they would get deletion notices on a couple of hundred files since I used to get like 1 or 2 deletions a month for years before. I know a few searchers that scan them and copy what ever you have in your directory even if you never publish the links they post it in the search engines for download. There is no way to prevent access to your files. Much harder to do that with RS since need a matching MD5 or link so almost impossible.

Since filenames can be changed on the fly I could just take a any link and add any filename I want and post a link.. So you can also just put in a number for files you upload but when you post the link you can change the number to the file name..

eg
http://www.filefactory.com/file/2f67sgjyhlnh/n/50.txt

just change the 50.txt to anyolefilename.bin

This gets rid of the searchers but dont help with mass deletions..

They had 2TB storage space for members.. So I would think that when you get over 4TB they will get nervous.. I am sure if you dont bring them any revenue on the files then even 2TB would be too much in the fair usage policy.. Although even uploading 2 TB would be considered an impossible job considering all the technical problems.

[TBDragon]

hmmm so is filefactory good to save files under 1 TB ?!

and is rapidshare good to save files ?! above that ?! without problems ?!

[alientech]

hmmm so is filefactory good to save files under 1 TB ?!

and is rapidshare good to save files ?! above that ?! without problems ?!

Free account is 500GB and 90 days. It does get deleted after 90 days of no access but premium is unlimited. I think as long as you stay under 2TB you will be fine even if you dont publish the links. Since they do give 500GB free, 2TB is not much more.. But cross 5TB and I am pretty sure you end up on a list and 10TB etc would mean you better bring in a lot of money for them, I have not hit 5TB yet since every time I come close I get some mass deletions of hundreds of files but I am sure all those multiple times were just coincidences since some people say they have 5-10TB for months now and no problems. They only recently got a 100TB server cluster.. Those cost a lot of money like $20-50K each plus the bandwidth as well and monthly rack storage as they are also rather big. They wanted to get a few more of them but not sure they have the cash to get it like megaupload who have over a thousand of them. RS is also up there but they have changed so often that they are not reliable. You never know what they will do next. Megaupload on the other hand at least was consistent in providing cheap storage as well as cheap and free access for most.

[amartin99]

ah
I thought I was in the netload thread (just clicked the link in my email and I have been arguing with a jerk in that thread a lot)
im not sure about FF
just starting to really use them myself

[amartin99]

I have nearly 6TB uploaded and don't think Ive had any deletes yet
haven't posted anything yet either though

not that I don't plan to post
im just trying to get my collection completely uploaded first (30TB)