The problem with rapid share and similar temp hosting.....

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Rapidshare and many temporary hosting types are great to share files now! but what about 30 days from now will your source still be there. At least with rapidshare the hosting is good for 30 days, after, they erase the link....what that means for forums is that if they have large contents of resource links associated with these type of temporary links the data will be lost and the sources to the threads or studies will be permanently gone. Rhodium was smart to keep the pdf, djvu archives, he knew the value of this data and to be trusted to no free server ....well now we discover this painful truth.

So let this be a warning to all forums that rely on storing the hard sough articles and e-books by members in this temp hosting sites. I would suggest until an in house storage method is developed using something that gives the user free storage without limit of use only downloading restrictions apply. Case and point , ripway....secured storage 30MB only has 24 hours restriction after downloading 10MB ...the way around this is to register with a different name , still using your same e-mail address and one can have n -number of accounts theoretically.

Well now back to work as I have a lot of articles to re-upload and e-books too, they are all victims of he free hosting revenge. I will ask all members to re-upload their article contributions, but use a permanent storage like ripway hosting , until they can be stored in house permanently.......java