FILE SHARING & FILE SHARING & STORAGESTORAGE

In the recent days, the file traffic between internet users has reached enormous levels...

As a consequence of this issue, some web sites have come to the help of users by giving

sharing and storage services.

Despite there are so many sites giving similar services, there are several of them that are

widely known

4shared.com is probably the best among its alternatives by furnishing the best opportunities for

its customers.

Some of the basic features and lucrative properties of 4shared.com can be listed as:

• 1GB free space

• Unlimited bandwith & access

• No software to download

• Limitless duration

• 30 days for recognition of the file

• File management

• Mutli upload feature

• Sharing of files with everybody no matter if they are members or not.

• The access link to the file can be given to everybody rather than to a particular mail adress

Besides its prevailing properties, 4shared.com gives opportunity to its users to utilize the website as a

video or media portal by posting their videos, music, photos and documents.

By this option, users can watch videos on the website without downloading to their computer just like the

way that they do in youtube.comBriefly it can be used also for posting in addition to its

property of hosting.

Although 4shared.com has some prevailing properties in comparison to its alternatives, it has also some

petty drawbacks like:

• Limitation on the size of a folder during the upload.

-- 4shared sets a 50 MB size limitation per file. Your files must not exceed the limit, otherwise they will be rejected.

• Limitation of downloaders.

-- All files can be downloaded unlimited times, but each file can be downloaded by one visitor at the same time only. So, if the file is currently been downloading, you will see a notification.

4shared.com also offers an aggreeable price for its membership presenting gold features.

One of the other alternatives is yousendit.com which was very popular among users when it was totally free of charge. Since it requires purchase of premium account for limitless

service, yousendit.com has fallen into contempt among its loyal users.

Some of the limited properties of yousendit.com can be listed as:

• Unoccupancy of the mail boxes• Unnecessary registration for sending files-- Registration is needed in order to download the file.

This operation can easily be done via the link that is indicated in the confirmation mail

Beside its limited privileges, yousendit.com has several inefficiencies and drawbacks like:

• 1 week of duration• Only 100 mb limit is given to lite(free) users.

• Frequent pop-ups of antivirus programs during the download.

• Relatively high prices charged for premium membership

( $59.88/year)

The third alternative is RapidShare

Rapidshare has some advantageous features like:

• Being faster by the means of download speed in comparison to its alternatives.

• No registration is required for downloading.• Giving opportunity to its premium users to earn free points during their upload and gives them the chance to use their points on purchasing premium memberships

later on• Occasionally exposing happyhours which lets limitless

downloads.

Rapidshare has some drawbacks in the contrary like;

• No direct links• Time and file size limit

• Waiting time• Bantering to filters

• Download limit• So many steps through the path of download.• Typing of blurry numbers at every download.

• Highest price in premium membership. (54.99€/year)