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You said it all in just half a dozen lines, alientech. I agree with everything you wrote: ridiculous sales program.... people not realising their links are down and their files are missing.... failing servers..... crappy ftp AND crappy remote upload (last night it got stuck again). And their Support Center is still absconding, or it just gives you BS generic replies such as "we are aware of that, we are working on it". Yeah. Unfortunately, this is the same rigmarole they are singing for the past 2 months by now.
And now even stats are frozen!!! According to them, today I collected ZERO downloads since midnight (it's 11:50 AM here in continental Europe).

Ok, it's definitely time to drop these incompetent people and move on to somewhere else.
Despite my firm belief that the era of paying file hosts is rapidly coming to an end and that the future of file sharing relies now on the torrent/VPN duo (and I'm still keeping an eye at Usenet and NZB files) I'd like to give it another go.
I'm looking for a file host with:

- a PPD program
- a good service, not a failing one (ie. Remote and FTP which actually work)
- reliable servers
- at least 1 year of activity already


I don't even take into consideration file hosts born after January 2012. They are simply a vehicle for their admins to try to make some quick money out of gullible people and then run. All of them.

I already know Bitshare and Freakshare (same owner; they ban accounts because of DMCA, they have a not very good remote and they are banned from many ISP), Shareflare and Letitbit (they both try to install software on your machine), Extabit (a biased PPD program: too much dependent on your sales over the previous week) and Depositfiles (again, too eager to ban accounts because of DMCA).
I know there are not many good options out there, and many file hosts have some weird restrictions. I'm trying to collect infos and opinions about Turbobit and Unibytes, in particular. Apparently Russian file hosts are our last hope, all things considered, since they basically don't give a f*ck about the Washington government and the increasingly strict laws that are intimidating file hosts all over Europe now.
What do you guys think? What about you, alientech?



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