RapidShare Killers: A Review of the Hottest New Filehosters

Whether it be on release blogs, warez forums, or anywhere else on the ‘net - it’s unanimous that RapidShare links are everywhere. Few can deny that RS continues to reign as king of the filehosters - but there’s some serious new competition aiming to dethrone this behemoth 1-click hoster. According to Alexa: just 12 months ago RapidShare was poised at the #10 spot among most-visited websites; RS has now slipped to #31 and continues to slide. Small potatoes? Not in the business of filehosters it isn’t, where mad dollars are at stake. One thing that is certain - you can bet that the RS team is sweating over these new startups below that are vying for a piece of the filehosting pie.

RapidShare’s decline in popularity doesn’t indicate a slowdown in the overall growth of filehosters - in fact, DDL trends are quite the contrary. The collection below is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all filehosters available; it’s merely a sample of just some of the newer ones out there.

http://hotfile.com

Alexa Ranking: **90

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SiteReport Rank: **85

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Visits Per Day: 6,287,169
Free Users: (downloading & uploading) — 400 MB max filesize
Registered Users: same as above
Premium Access: $9 for 1 month
Download Speed (as free user): 130 - 150 KB/s (on average)
**PROs

** — PayPal & CC payment options.
**CONs

** — Captcha and 60 second wait-times (for free users).

http://freakshare.net

Alexa Ranking: **526

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SiteReport Rank: **550

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Visits Per Day: 1,202,308
Free Users: (downloading & uploading) — 450 MB max filesize
Registered Users: same as above
Premium Access: 9.99€ (Euro) for 1 month
Download Speed (as free user): 100 - 115 KB/s (on average)
**PROs

** — No captcha. Extensive list of payment options.
**CONs

** — 10-minute delay between new downloads (for free users). Expensive premium access when compared to other filehosters.

http://sharingmatrix.com

Alexa Ranking: **1,422

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SiteReport Rank: **1,583

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Visits Per Day: 530,346
Free Users: (downloading — 400 MB max filesize); (uploading — 1 GB filesize limit)
Registered Users: (downloading & uploading) — 2 GB max filesize
Premium Access: $9.99 for 1 month
Download Speed (as free user): 180 - 230 KB/s (on average)
**PROs

** — Above-average download speeds for free users (despite their own claim that DL rates won’t exceed 100 KB/s, we easily doubled this).
**CONs

** — Hard to read captcha. Popup adverts. 400 MB filesize download limit for non-premium users.

http://x7.to

Alexa Ranking: **2,106

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SiteReport Rank: **2,261

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Visits Per Day: 393,958
Free Users: (downloading & uploading) — 5 GB max filesize
Registered Users: same as above
Premium Access: 10€ (Euro) for 30 days
Download Speed (as free user): 40 - 60 KB/s (on average)
**PROs

** — No captcha. Very quick upload speeds for free users. Offers High-Def streaming for premium account holders.
**CONs

** — Slow download speeds (for free users).

http://oron.com

Alexa Ranking: **2,937

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SiteReport Rank: **2,706

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Visits Per Day: 287,508
Free Users: (downloading — 1024 MB max filesize; 100 MB transfer limit per hour); (uploading — 200 MB filesize limit)
Registered Users: (downloading — 1024 MB max filesize; 100 MB transfer limit per 45 minutes); (uploading — 400 MB filesize limit)
Premium Access: $9.95 for 30 days
Download Speed (as free user): 100 - 125 KB/s (on average)
**PROs

** — Registered members receive up to 250 GB online storage.
**CONs

** — Non-premium users are limited to just 100 MB of bandwidth per hour (or 45 minutes, if registered). In theory, a 200 MB file would supposedly pause downloading halfway through, in order to wait for the next hour’s cycle to begin - although in our tests we didn’t experience this.

http://shareflare.net

Alexa Ranking: **3,248

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SiteReport Rank: **1,800

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Visits Per Day: 413,442
Free Users: (downloading — no filesize limitations); (uploading — 2 GB filesize limit)
Registered Users: same as above
Premium Access: 5€ (Euro) for 30 days
Download Speed (as free user): 45 - 55 KB/s (on average)
**PROs

** — Multiple (simultaneous) file uploading. Support for resuming downloads.
**CONs

** — Tricky navigation when downloading files - a “SMS” option is open by default; free users need to click the small “Free” option and enter a captcha code. At the time of testing, download speeds (for free account) were below average (~50 KB/s). Popup / popunder advert pages are not blocked by AdBlock Plus.

http://www.extabit.com

Alexa Ranking: **3,431

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SiteReport Rank: **4,442

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Visits Per Day: 153,496
Free Users: (downloading — 2 GB filesize, download speed is capped at 75 KB/s); (uploading — 2 GB filesize limit)
Registered Users: (uploading — 10 GB filesize limit)
Premium Access: $12.99 for 30 days
Download Speed (as free user): 35 - 60 KB/s (on average)
**PROs

** — Unlike most filehosters, Extabit has a search feature to browse files stored on their servers.
**CONs

** — Slow - they’re not kidding when they say that free users are ’speed capped’ at 75 KB/s. To avoid this frustration, premium access seems to be the only solution.

http://ugotfile.com

Alexa Ranking: **4,534

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SiteReport Rank: **4,507

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Visits Per Day: 166,802
Free Users: (downloading & Uploading) — 5 GB max filesize
Registered Users: Same as above
Premium Access: $9.99 for 30 days
Download Speed (as free user): 300 - 500 KB/s (on average)
**PROs

** — Fast downloading for non-premium users.
**CONs

** — Hard to read captcha upon downloading. Only accepts credit cards (no PayPal) for purchasing premium accounts; although affiliates do require PayPal to receive payouts.

http://www.superfastfile.com

Alexa Ranking: **18,485

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SiteReport Rank: **19,988

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Visits Per Day: 52,274
Free Users: (downloading — 1,500 MB daily bandwidth); (uploading — 5 GB filesize limit)
Registered Users: (downloading — 3,000 MB daily bandwidth); (uploading — 5 GB filesize limit)
Premium Access: $1.99 for 30 days (includes 20 GB daily bandwidth)
Download Speed (as free user): 110 - 135 KB/s (on average)
**PROs

** — Easy to read captcha. One of the cheapest ‘premium’ filehosters we’ve ever come across.
**CONs

** — Links aren’t easy to find.

http://save.am

Alexa Ranking: **27,957

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SiteReport Rank: **13,336

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Visits Per Day: 71,758
Free Users: (downloading — 450 MB filesize limit); (uploading — 250 MB filesize limit)
Registered Users: (downloading — 450 MB filesize limit); (uploading — 450 MB filesize limit)
Premium Access: $6.99 for 30 days
Download Speed (as free user): 50 - 65 KB/s (on average)
**PROs

** — No captcha. Registered members are able to download at higher rates than anonymous downloaders (90 - 120 KB/s).
**CONs

** — Slowish DL speeds for free (anonymous) downloads.

http://cramit.in

Alexa Ranking: **54,597

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SiteReport Rank: **24,453

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Visits Per Day: 38,018
Free Users: (downloading — 10 GB max filesize); (uploading — 10 GB max filesize limit)
Registered Users: Same as above
Premium Access: $4.99 for 30 days
Download Speed (as free user): 97 - 105 KB/s (on average)
**PROs

** — Very affordable premium access. Generous 10 GB filesize limits for both free & premium users. Unlimited storage space for registered (free) users. Cramit.in offers free apps such as a download manager and a desktop uploader.
**CONs

** — Only accepts PayPal (to purchase premium); affiliates must also possess a PayPal account.

http://file-bit.net

Alexa Ranking: **123,329

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SiteReport Rank: **63,136

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Visits Per Day: 14,732
Free Users: (downloading — 2 GB max filesize); (uploading — 2 GB max filesize limit). Free users are capped at 9 GB download bandwidth per 3 days.
Registered Users: (downloading — same as above); (uploading — 3 GB max filesize limit)
Premium Access: $6.99 for 30 days
Download Speed (as free user): 30 - 50 KB/s (on average)
**PROs

** — Registered (free) users receive 200 GB storage.
**CONs

** — Deathly slow - not an appropriate filehoster for free users who download large files.

http://www.fileserve.com

Alexa Ranking: **195,400

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SiteReport Rank: **69,399

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Visits Per Day: 10,692
Free Users: (downloading — at least 1 GB filesize); (uploading — 1 GB max filesize limit).
Registered Users: same as above
Premium Access: $9.99 for 30 days
Download Speed (as free user): 60 - 80 KB/s (on average)
**PROs

** — No captcha. Registered members receive 200 GB storage.
**CONs

** — If there’s one site where it pays to become a free registered member, it’s FileServe. Download speeds will improve dramatically upon signing up (from 60-80 KB/s to 200-330 KB/s).

http://lizshare.net

Alexa Ranking: **479,685

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SiteReport Rank: **379,157

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Visits Per Day: 2,234
Free Users: (downloading & uploading — 2 GB max filesize)
Registered Users: (uploading — 3 GB max filesize limit)
Premium Access: $13 for 31 days
Download Speed (as free user): 450 - 550 KB/s (on average)
**PROs

** — Great speeds for free downloads! Bandwidth is unmetered.
**CONs

** — Lizshare DDLs are hard to find.

http://www.movieshare.in

Alexa Ranking: **728,214

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SiteReport Rank: **288,836

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Visits Per Day: 3,279
Free Users: (downloading — 700 MB per day allowance); (uploading — 1 GB max filesize limit)
Registered Users: (downloading — 1000 MB per day allowance); (uploading — 2 GB max filesize limit)
Premium Access: $5 for 30 days (20 GB per day / 12 GB filesize limit)
Download Speed (as free user): 650 - 750 KB/s (on average, see image below)
**PROs

** — It’s always a good sign when a new filehoster’s links start appearing in RlsLog comments. In our tests, DL speeds were amazingly zippy; perhaps this can be attributed to the server(s) not yet being inundated with too many downloaders.
**CONs

** — Beware of the money-grabbing flvdirect.com page that launches when you click their “Free User” link.

Other Filehosters…

• A more robust list of filehosters can be seen here.

dvd Says:

brilliant article sharky :).

Having multiple excellent and competing file hosters is GREAT and essential to a healthy and always improving DDL scene and ecosystem.

Though it seems funny you merely mentioned many other big fish who are major RS contenders like MU out :S…they may not be new but they’re the biggest fish taking out that pie from RS :).
LOL Says:

movieshare.in and other crap hosts get a little writeup but popular hosts like MU, MS, etc, just get a link on the bottom of the article? ….ok
oh ok Says:

I have to say, megaupload is probably one of the best filehost right now. It usually caps out my connection(30mb down) and seems to offer unlimited downloads as a FREE user.

All with only a 45 second wait and a little captcha (which if you use jDownloader it doesn’t really matter anyway)
sbb Says:

rapid is going down since they give up paying dollars for rapidpoints. all other sites especially hotfile x7 upload.to and netload gives you real money not tricky rapid presents
LOL_The_2nd Says:

Agreed with ~02 and ~03. Don’t be sad ~1 and ~4 I kinda agree with you too

MegaUpload+JDownloader= More than you can watch*

*HD movies, 720p TV Shows etc. not even mentioning 700mb things.

Tipp: Don’ forget to leave your PC running at night and in the morning you’ll be like \o/
anon Says:

Most of them are more expensive than my news account.
K Says:

hotfile is only 400MB max filesize
not 2GB
qwerty Says:

@K

hotfile changed it this week. it is up to 2000mb now.
K Says:

@qwerty
oh my bad
i didn;t know
that;s good news
Meh Says:

All of these hosts are shit that only selfish fucks upload, my MediaFire account is taking up roughly 5.4 TB and it does just damn fine.
aXXo Says:

prefer mediafire!!
aXXo Says:

+1 media fire. Impressed from the user account,..no waiting time, no captcha.. download speed faster than rapidshare and hotfile combined! decided to buy premium account and still have it.. loving it!
Nfld Says:

Mega upload is the best!!! Over 500k, no wait, no captcha with jdownloader

netload is also very good, but you have wait bw files
Baz Says:

Megaupload shits on all others right now.
abhi Says:

mediafire is the best
lolol Says:

So u watch TS sharky?
thisone Says:

only good hoster is netload right now!

all others either dont offer FTP/remote upload for free users (megaupload) or have no/shitty reward systems (mediafire, megaupload) or dont pay out (storage.to) or suspend accounts at random (hotfile)!
ninja Says:

Megaupload and Mediafire are the best. My personal preference is Megaupload because of the rewards system where it is incredibly easy to get premium. The reason more people dont use Mediafire is because there is no rewards system. Megaupload is the best file hoster for free and premium users that also offers a rewards system hands down.
dixon Says:

the best for free users are mediafire and megaupload. all else are dead slow unless you pay or waste time uploading for premium.
sunil Says:

mediafire is not even mentioned . it offers the best speeds for free users and there are a lot of mediafire links out there . more than crammit.in or movieshare links
Meh Says:

@thisone Fuck you for supporting profiting from piracy.
LOLZ Says:

What #2 said.
howdy-do Says:

Call me nutz, but the keyword here was ‘New’. Not MS, MU, MF, HF - if you havent already heard of those ones, then your in real trouble. You should put out smth on the best hosters though.
thisone Says:

@021*Meh:
“Profiting”? Really? You think I make thousands of dollars each month by uploading stuff?

It’s *barely* enough to pay for the VPN service I subscribe to and my root … it’s compensation for the time and effort spent searching, uploading and posting on several boards … if you really think I “profit” from this, you are mistaken!
WarezBot Says:

Hotfile is the main competition to rs .
now they are allowing Maximum file of size 2000 MB ( Upload and download ) for free users also ..
Jade Says:

@Thisone

Let’s do some cost comparing.
A VPN 7 dollars ( http://bit.ly/DE51m )

I run a torrent site, it’s expensive, let me explain how expensive.

Server 1, used to race pres. 200 dollars ( http://bit.ly/atK3kM )
Server 2, used for retention 540 dollars ( http://bit.ly/dyyiql )
Server 3, used for http and tracker 100 dollars ( http://bit.ly/duzXCq )
Scene leech slot 50 dollars ( http://bit.ly/bPe24f )
Total. ~ 900 dollars excluding additions expenses that I do not feel like adding into this as I have already said enough.

Some things to notes.
All prices are converted into USD.
Server 1 used to cost 350 dollars until April in which the hosting was moved to 100tb.
I accept donations because I HAVE to with costs this high, even with donations though I still spend roughly 50 times the cost of a VPN monthly.
Server 3 actual specs are no longer available at the host, this is due to technology upgrades.
I may need a server 4 soon as server 2 is nearly filled, this would bring costs to nearly 1500 dollars.
The amount a VPN costs should easily be covered by you. I used to have to download from file hosts, it was total hell because people uploaded to whatever promised them money, which in term I would have to shell out money for file hosting accounts. In fact I think with the costs of premium accounts and the multitude of file hosts my leech spot may even be cheaper nowadays.
Meh seems fine doing it for a loss so why can’t you?

Sorry for long rant, just having flash backs of the hell it was downloading from file hosts back in the day.

If first comment goes through all screwy maybe it can be deleted as I noticed it got screwed up when I scrolled up to confirm the name of the other uploader.
File Hosting Directory Says:

I agree that Hotfile.com is the main competition to Rapidshare.com.

My opinion is that MediaFire is a good pick for overall best quality.

Why people would still use rapidshare is beyond me….

Plus you got tons of those new “file spread” websites like Qooy.com and others…

You can always look at http://www.filehostingdirectory to find constantly updated information about one click hosts, they change all the time it seems
D3M Says:

Comment Link Extractor
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/46591

Extremely useful if you regularly use “release blogs, warez forums” etc. It adds a little panel under each post, which can be clicked on to show all the links from the comments posted on the post. It even has toggle buttons to show/hide links from different filehosters.
heavy traffic european user Says:

I have NetLoad premium and Hotfile premium and I must say hotfile speed sux… I’m based in Europe and I always easily max my 10Mbit DSL line using NetLoad even with 1 non segmented download from netload. With Hotfile it’s different story - i can get max speed only if using heavy segmented mode… recently I set 8paralell connections from hotfile for single file download.. them it’s ok.. if use same settings as for netload.. speed sux totally.. I guess data just don’t go so quickly over ‘pound’ (hotfile servers is in usa, netload is in .EU).

As for other hosters - i like Filefactory (nice speed for free users) and recent superb free hoster is http://files.mail.ru... awsomly speeds without wait time (ok, it’s 5sec, but that’s nothing).

Megaupload seems to be also OK (tested only free download).

Anyway - my favorite is NetLoad.. no data transfer limits + great speed.
rmn Says:

Only these you need:
http://www.multiupload.com/
http://www.multiupload.com/

http://depositfiles.com/en/ 2gb
http://www.filedropper.com/ 5gb
http://www.filesavr.com/ 10gb
ist Says:

Scene leech slot 50 dollars ( http://bit.ly/bPe24f )

wtf scene lamer?
Sc4R Says:

Rapidshare made a huge mistake when they stopped paying out rapidpoints.
Let’s be honest, most of the uploaders among want to make some money, and are not interested to donate to charity organisations.
Meh Says:

@Sc4r You can donate to charities now? That sounds really nice, I might try to upload to both MediaFire and RapidShare now so I can help charities.
Kathy Simone Says:

Hello all!

I want all your support tech people!
Please I need fast a sharingmatrix premium account only for three days or four days.
Thank you!

Kathy Simone
kathysimone80@yahoo.com
Manish M. Shah Says:

Another favorite option is File Apartment (http://www.fileapartment.com). Easy to use, no software to download or registration, up to 1 GB, free option, safe, and secure.
F34R007 Says:

http://myupload.dk/

check this absolut free garanted max bandwitch speed and up to file 1 gb
btw about file storage i uploaded some files month ago and not deleted

shareyourfiles.net

free 100%
up to 240 MB/file and 240 days stored
about nice download speed my 5 Mbit/s connection can 300 KB/s
episodes Says:

for me thumps up for magaupload
Jesse Says:

I just came across a new one, gigashares.net and it looks like they only have a few files (I downloaded a HTML5 structure image) - but the speeds were great and prem. pricing isn’t bad ! Interesting!
Baraba Says:

Hotfile sucks… If you download 40+gb in one day they will close your premium account…
KRAKEN Says:

Best review in a long time. Excellent work.
zx Says:

dont pay out (storage.to)

+1
wurd Says:

This is a great article, but information on how long each host keeps files would be very useful.
smartcookie Says:

Dont waste time uploading files to some untrusted service. Use Binfer to transfer large files directly and securely from your computer to your contacts computer. Drag and drop 1000’s of files, auto resumes and the fastest transfers you can find. The site is http://www.binfer.com.
Hogge Says:

Try file4save its awesome,fast upload and download speed……..
barbarian Says:

Can’t go wrong with new hosts, even when they don’t have a lot of files on their servers you still can upload files directly to your account remotely from major hosts without Premium account, and second files tend to stay longer, bigger upload limits, download resume etc…. some of them even pay more money for downloads then the big hosts, Favorites are
http://x7.to
http://www.metahyper.com/
MT Says:

These ones mentioned below are the best for me…

http://www.filebox.ro — 1 GB (with free account)
http://www.netdrive.ws — 1536 MB
http://turbobit.net — 200 MB
filehostingdirectory Says:

Nice article. A few things worth mentioning are the features of each file host.

For example. cramit.in offers all registered users access to rapidleech script, to get files to their accounts, which can help if you just want to save the file directly to your account.

What about torrent leech option? Ravishare, metahyper, and a few others allow you to upload a torrent, then you can go to a different page. When you return, every file inside the torrent will be downloaded to your account.

Many other file hosting companies, enterupload, 10upload, cramit, metahyper, fileflyer, allow you to leech downloads from other file hosters. Enterupload can leech from filefactory, fileserve, megaupload, rapidshare, uploading.com, netload, and others.

Some of these options interest certain users

Thanks for the good read.
ray Says:

Nice nice , but where are:
megaupload , mediafire ,badongo ,gigasize,filesonic,4shared

http://hotfile.com

http://freakshare.net

http://sharingmatrix.com

http://x7.to

http://oron.com

http://shareflare.net

http://www.extabit.com

http://ugotfile.com

http://www.superfastfile.com

http://save.am

http://cramit.in

http://file-bit.net

http://www.fileserve.com

http://lizshare.net

http://www.movieshare.in

Other Filehosters…

• A more robust list of filehosters can be seen here.

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