Over the past couple of days we had on average 10-12 DMCA notifications / day, all pertaining to training materials uploaded on our site. All removed in 24-48h after verifying the IP ownership.

This is a reminder to anyone using our service - you're welcome unless you abuse it. Read the Terms of service carefully - if you breach them, it's game on - from removed files (you'll get a message stating the reason when trying to access them) to banning your account.

We don't like it when it happens, but it's the law - and the law does now make distinction between Premium, registered or free users - it's the same for all of us. And abiding by it is part of the license we have to operate this site legally.

If you use the platform to store your own files as backup, remember to un-check the Public option, don't post links anywhere publicly and ideally use the password option to protect the files further. Anything different than that (and infringement notices come with links to forum pages where our download URLs had been made public on purpose) is enough to get your account disabled or banned.

If you don't agree to these rules, please go use some other service.
If you do, thank you for your understanding and cooperation - we really appreciate having you onboard.

We have to make some infrastructure changes and are forced for the time being to take some of the file servers offline.
Normal service will resume once the work is complete.

Many thanks for your patience.

Oliver

We are experimenting again with the Torrent module - today we will open it to free users (you must only Register) and run some load and behavior tests.

As always, do not hesitate to send us your feedback and ideas.

Mark, on behalf the RaviShare.com team

UPDATE: The maintenance work was completed and the service returned to production. Please contact support if you experience any issues.

ORIGINAL MESSAGE:

We are undergoing maintenance and expect limited availability over the next 24h.

Registration of new users has been disabled temporarily for site maintenance.

All Premium subscriptions will be extended to compensate for the inconvenience.

If you have any questions or concerns please use the Contact Us form to ask for assistance.

Thank you for your patience and support.

UPDATE:
We got a message today from a user who did not want to be called a freeloader and chose to close his regular account. He did not seem to have ever abused the service, though. I agree that is a dangerous generalization, and would like to apologize to anyone who felt the language was inappropriate. But I won't censor the original post, as that would be really lame. The service has been stable since the restriction was put in place, and things will have to stay this way until time comes to move on and decide how will the website evolve.
Thank you for your patience and frankness.


ORIGINAL POST:
We've been around for about 3 years now, as a simple exercise in dealing with large amounts of files, managing heavy traffic and gaining experience with off-the-shelf scripts. Please note that running RaviShare.com as a commercial service has not been our interest and never a priority.

So for a long time we have been subsidizing this, regarding it as a hobby, one of those pet projects you never aim to make pay for one's rent. Or the servers' rent, or the time of the people behind it.

And that was fine until a few days ago, when the whole MegaUpl0ad sham went public and a legion of download-addicts were left without their fix. Some of them seem to have come to us, and to those that played nice we said "welcome". But they were so few...

Our new visitors (or, as we prefer to call them, freeloaders), mistake RvS for some large operation. We are not, and we don't really care to become one. We respect DMCA notifications, actively remove pornography when we find it and truly dislike people who create 10 accounts in order to download multiple torrents for free. Or abuse our Rapidshare leeching feature.

Because of those, we are turning the free access to the torrent leecher off - we need to protect our paying customers and save resources. This feature has always been experimental, but that means we are the ones experimenting with things, not the freeloaders. It used to be a fair trade-off, our resources for your experience, but such recent excesses ruined it.

Don't write back to support to complain - we are way too aware of the issue. A fix will be put in place. We might run the leecher for free again, as it is a nice way to test the service. But for the few people that really overload the service (740GB in 4 days, one of the worst ones), everybody must suffer. We can only hope they'll take the hint and blame our poor quality service while heading to some other sites where downloads are not a feature, but a business model reliant on breaking the law. And yes, we believe in freedom of speech, but go tell that to someone who can help you enforce it. We have a service overload now and are kind of busy.

As for our Premium, paying clients - we really owe you an apology. It might not help you much under such circumstances, but we extended everyone's subscriptions for 3 days to compensate for the poor experience. And we will work really hard to fix it and go back to being a reasonable, less-known file hosting provider.

Until we meet again, freeloaders beware!

We have to make massive changes to our infrastructure (unplaned), including some server migration.
No files will be affected, but access to existing uploads and the torrent module have been disabled for the time being to speed up transfers and prevent data corruption.

All Premium subscriptions will be extended with up to 10 days to compensate for any inconvenience caused.

Thank you for your understanding.

Mark Spades
Operations Manager

Thank you for using our service.

We are posting to let you know that a planned maintenance window will take place with the main hosting provider for our website.

We do expect downtime during this planned service outage as they will be upgrading the Cisco and changing our routes, yet the downtime is not expected to be constant throughout the whole service window.

No files or ongoing torrent downloads will be affected.

Mark Spades
Operations Manager
RaviShare.com

Now you can embed a file sharing box into your own website/blog/forum and allow your visitors to upload files to RaviShare.com without leaving your pages. This small iframe performs the same way as our regular upload form, includes a progress bar and returns the final URL after completion.




Please find below the code you need to insert in your HTML page. You can customize the text and background color to match your existing template.

<iframe src="http://www.ravishare.com/box?xbg=FFFFFF&xtxt=101010" width=350 height=55 frameborder=0 scrolling="no" allowTransparency="true"></iframe>

This is an experimental feature and can be suspended at any time.