YSI v Rapidshare etc.

I know this topic has probably been chewed over many times before under several different headings but I thought I'd just like to add my thoughts, for what they are worth.

I just cannot see the advantage of using YSI over Rapidshare or Megaupload etc.
OK you upload your file onto YSI and make your post in the forum, you are more or less guaranteed to get replies if others want the file. The link is dead after 7 days.
You gotta PM or e-mail all those who you consider are worthy of having your file. After around 20 downloads though you gotta upload the file again (if my info is correct).

Megaupload, QFile etc I put in the same category as Rapidshare as the principal is the same. Megaupload has the advantage over filesize, being totally free and no download restrictions but until their servers are upgraded, the c**p download speeds are holding it back in the minor league.

OK Rapidshare is limited to 50MB chunks and unless you have a (imho value for money) premium account you have hourly download restrictions. It's likely that although people are downloading your file you won't get a reply - so what! Yeah it's nice to get replies and read how much people like your post but it's no big deal if they don't.
If I've gone to all the trouble of preparing and uploading a file, heck the reason I do it is so that as many guys as possible can share it, not so that only a handful who gotta reply to my post can have it.

The only reason I can see for guys using YSI is coz they want the adoration of replies and the buzz they probably get from refusing to provide the link to someone coz they haven't made enough posts.

Can someone come up with a valid alternative reason?

 

I personally don't like low quality .wmv vids if you can find a host that can support 150+ meg vids without cutting and unlimited dl's you let me know beside megaupload with there 1 - 5 kbs downloads.

 

A lot of videos are huge in file-size and people probably can't be bothered going to the effort of splitting them up, then uploading them one piece by piece, when YSI can be done overnight in one go.

A lot of people are different in their opinion, but I've seen a lot of leechers have had to register and contribute themselves because there's a lot of videos they want, if it was all Qfile or RS then they wouldn't. I dare say a lot of good members have joined as a result.

There probably are users who like seeing a lot of replies on their posts and such, but it is frustrating for people who spend a lot of time making a RS post and it disapears down to Page 2 and 3 within hours, because the lurkers DL it and move on.

Each user has their own choice as to which way they'd like to upload, and that's the best way.

 

Also Mal you complain about people stealing links from your forum, well if using ysi no one is stealing right? Now I have been going on other peoples forums to check out there layouts and I see alot of people passing mu links as there own. At least the members using YSI or being original and putting forth the effort instead of being lazy and copy and pasting links and pics. I rather be an ass, give links to people who put in the effort and have people ask me for a link than a lazy pillow biter who copies free mu and rs links from every other forum.

 

Yes I like to be an asshole and tell people to fock off if they haven't contributed. Yes, I start to do summersaults and use my party poppers when people reply to my thread... is there a problem with that??? LOL

Ok, sarcasm done... I actually would love to find an alternative to YSI and I did find another site which hosts up to 250 megs for 10 day and unlimited downloads. I'm planning on doing a test soon to see how fast download speeds are. I will admit that I hate to re-upload stuff, but even with unlimited downloads, I still will not post the link up. Personally, I do not want to share with leechers period! I spend my time to encode and upload vids so I will not share with people who do not try to make this forum a good place to get quality vids. Plus, do you really want more and more people coming to this place just to leech and cause more traffic? I imagine it will come to a point where the site will slow down significantly, I've seen this happen to another public forum before. Also, I can't stand people taking other peoples links and posting that crap up!

 

Hey Mal, since you are a mod at the other forum and you made this post on why use ysi when you can use other hosts. Please do not have your members register and flame and call our members derogatory names. Now porn is porn you guys do not own them nor do they belong to you. See what I mean at least when members use YSI they don't get called names and thieves for posting a link. Your the one who made this long post and now see what is wrong with your statement.

I do not register on your forum and point out all the stuff you copied from me when I posted it first and call you guys names.

Now I am holding you responsible for all your members who start stuff with this forum over some pettiness of porn. Please if you have problems with posting contact me or another mod.

 

Well that certainly got a little discussion going and has raised several valid points.

Yep, I can see that using YSI would prevent people stealing your work which is a big problem and yes the file hosting size is an advantage.

If Megaupload gets it's act together I think maybe that would be the best hosting service by far. The link could be provided to those that requested it similar to the YSI system or for those that just want to post the link they could. Best of both worlds

Having read earlier posts on this subject it would appear that Rapidshare encourages leechers and YSI encourages pan handles (beggers)(not heard that phrase before). So neither system has the edge in that respect.

I'd be interested to find out what SemiPimpster manages to find out, maybe you could post your findings here.

Like you the idea of re-uploading a file after 20 downloads or 7 days really does not appeal to me. I'd rather be uploading something new.

 

YSI > rapidshare. why? cause im banned from rapidshare for no apparent reason. its been a few months since i last used rapidshare and till today, im still banned from rapidshare.

 

Mal5950, I had zero sucess in uploading a file to ShareBigFile.com It just keeps on timing out at the end. If anyone else wants to give it a shot, let me know how your test comes out.

 

Worked for me. IMO it was faster than RS. ~32MB file
Don't know about D/L speed though.
Check this out.

 

I just tested the download speed and I was getting max 15k/sec. With RS I can get 90k/sec. I really wanted to use this if the speeds were at least 90k/sec since it allows 250 megs. I didn't bother to try uploading smaller file sizes since I will use RS almost all the time. Anyone else tested the speed?

 

U/L is definately faster than RS. almost twice as fast.

 

I honestly like using Rapidshare over any other service for numerous reasons...

1. My uploads progress is shown on screen in MB and I have yet to have an upload cut off short like on YSI. My upload speed is pretty damn good with RS.

2. Having sent $10 to RS, I now have premium account which allows me to earn download bandwidth credit for every download of my posted files. Example, lurkers download my 30mb video 47 times. I recieve 1.5mb credit for each of the 47 downloads.

3. I can delete my uploads at anytime if I feel like doing so with my delete link.

Sure I may have to split some movies up... so what? I can join them and so can you.... its not that hard. Also I never will have to pay more money for my premium account because every day I receive about 500 MB of download credits for all of my uploads to this forum and the ultimate fighting forum I am on. Some of you may notice the big DVD postings using RS for a reason, they are earning credits...

Just my 48 cents

 

I like YSI vids myself...they are usually higher quality and all that good stuff, and it also gets more content posted on the site. There is got to be give AND take or phun would probably die out IMO. I'm not particularly stingy with my YSI links and I don't get a buzz from saying no, in fact I usually give some of the guys advice to help them contribute.

 

Always thought sharing is the policy on a Blog. Thus we could share using MU or RS or QF. But for those stuff that deems valuable to individual, it can be traded via YSI. From all the treads, it takes time to up and down load, why not make the best of it.

 

A little bit of topic for this thread, but I just had a very disturbing message from a friend. I have been trying to get one of my video's ripped properly for public display and I don't have the programs to do it properly. So I broke the video down into 11 RAR files and sent them to a friend to work on. He downloaded all 11 RAR files and this is the message that he sent me;

Well I'm afraid your name is "mud" today, Chris. I downloaded the 11 RAR files (20-25 mins each) and virus scanned but when we tried to open (extract) the system crashed. It restarted itself so we tried again and that darn near killed Larry's machine. Two hours later and he' still trying to get it going. A dialogue box showed 6 errors (on the first file) before everything went down so somewhere in the process of getting the video from DVD to RAR to SendIt to our machine the files got corrupted.

Now this is a professional Web builder with 1,000's of websites built and maintained on their own servers, their computers are top of the line. Any idea what happened? I just took the original 11 RAR files that were on my machine and opened them back up into the original video and it played fine on my computer with no problems. Has anyone had similar problems with YSI?????

 

I find that downloading files using HJSplit to split them up can have a weird effect on my system. If I try to rename the files or do anything with them, Windows Explorer crashes and I have to end the process. I do not have HJSplit and I am sure you are supposed to join them together again using HJsplit but that is my nagging problem. So I no longer download HJSplitted vidz.

 

HJsplit files works fine for me, you might have a corrupt joiner. I joined a couple of vids Mal put up to test it and after I joined it just renamed and added the type of vid and it worked fine.

 

Got this website from a tech site...not sure what works for pr0n...but thought I'd post this here anyways....

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Sending large files - What works best

http://www.rapidshare.de
Size Limit: 30 MB
Download Limit: NONE (but there is a 75 second download timer and a 1-download-per-hour limit unless you have a Premium Account)
File Life: 30 Days+ provided there's still download activity after 1 month
http://www.ultrashare.net
Size Limit: 30 MB
Download Limit: NONE
File Life: 30 Days+ provided there's still download activity after 1 month

http://www.mytempdir.com
Size Limit: 25 MB
Download Limit: NONE
File Life: 14 Days

http://uploadhut.com
Size Limit: 50 MB
Download Limit: NONE
File Life: 30 Days+ provided there's still download activity after 1 month

http://www.sharebigfile.com
Size Limit: 250 MB
Download Limit: 250 Downloads
File Life: 7 Days

http://www.dropload.com
Size Limit: 100 MB
Download Limit: 1 Download
File Life: 7 Days

http://www.updownloadserver.de
Size Limit: 250 MB
Download Limit: NONE, but there is a 40-second download timer (similar to Rapidshare's except shorter)
File Life: Unlimited

http://sharefiles.ru
Size Limit: 50 MB
Other Limits: I haven't personally tested this so i'm not sure what the limits are in terms of # of downloads and/or file life, but from what i've read there's a bandwith limit and/or something about password protection, not sure what's meant by that though

http://www.uploadtemple.com
Size Limit: 30 MB
Download Limit: NONE
File Life: 30 Days+ provided there's still download activity after 1 month

http://www.glintfiles.net/upload.php
Size Limit: 30 MB
Download Limit: NONE (i think)
File Life: 30 Days+ provided there's still download activity after 1 month
Other Features: Password-protected download links, and in the download section, you can enter in a File ID and password (if there is one) to gain access to a download...not completely sure how it works though.

QuickFile http://www.qfile.de/operator.php?sysm=file_transfer&sysf=index
Size Limit: 50 MB
Download Limit: NONE (i think?)
File Life: 30 Days+ provided there's still download activity after 1 month

http://app02.bonpoo.com
Size Limit: 50 MB
Download Limit/File Life: Unknown (still need testing)

http://www02.megaupload.com/index.php
Size Limit: 500 MB
Download Limit: NONE
File Life: 30 Days+ provided there's still download activity after 1 month

http://datapickup.com
Size Limit: 250 MB (was originally 1.5 GB but i guess their servers must've gotten bombarded so they had to lower it)
Download Limit: 25 Downloads
File Life: 7 Days

 

Some of those hosts juvi has mentioned have been tested and it failed. A few of those are full of pop ups and spyware. If your going to test some of those be sure to be aware since juvi did not state it.