The Advantages of Using Rapidshare Online

Oct. 20, 2010 - PRLog -- RapidShare is a web hosting service. It is a german owned company and has
been in service from 2005. The members are allowed to upload files of different
sizes into this site. Once uploaded the user is provided with a unique download url
which can be used by anyone to download the file. However the download link
must be shared by the owner and content cannot be searched for in this site. The
site is financed by the membership fee of its users. There are two types of users for
rapidshare; the free users are those who download the files and the premium users
upload and download files from RapidShare.

What make a difference between the two categories are the privileges offered.
A free user can download file one at a time and will usually have to wait for a
short period before each download begins. The speed of downloads is also much
slower. A premium account user can upload files and store up to several gigabytes of
information. While downloading files a premium user is given top priority and can
also download several files at a time. It also allows for resuming the download in case
of any interruption. Other than the links shared by the owner one can also search for
download links in the RapidShare forums. You can find possibly anything that you
need in rapidshare and it can be easily downloaded. The files may range from games,
movies, songs to any expensive software.

The cost of membership is minimal and they offer many services and other
features for the members. You can also opt for a shorter period of membership and try
out its various features. The uploaded files are split into files of smaller size usually
around 100 Mb and this makes downloading easier by queuing it one by one. The
files are easily available during most of the time and the wait between downloads
are quite minimal for the free users. The speed of uploads for a premium user is very
good and in case of a free user it is fairly good enough. They also offer different
kinds of special services for free users such as searching for the necessary url by the
help of forums. There is a weekly download limit of 25gb which is needed to control
the traffic and load on the servers and it usually covers the basic requirements of
every users. There is also high traffic priority setting which ensures that the speeds
of premium users do not go beyond a certain limit. Though due to technical issues
only a single download was allowed at a time you can now download multiple files
and also queue up the rest. New features that allow you to continue downloading after
interruption have also been included to make rapid share easier to use. The resumed
downloads begin automatically and hence you do not have to bother about it.

Though one of the serious issues against RapidShare was that it was sharing
copyrighted material, the matter was overlooked by the law. This was due to the fact
that though steps where taken to check the files before being published it was found to
be a very difficult task as keyword search alone does not suffice.

For more information about Rapidshare visit: http://www.rapidpointer.com