Captain Kitty
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Host for Downloading?
🕑 Added 2022-12-14 06:56:20 +0000 UTCHello Ajinomoto,
If you're familiar with Mega, you'll know that it's fast for downloading. But they usually purge accounts. Here is my situation:
Last year, I heard that they deleted a lot of developers' accounts. I sent them a question: 'I can't control the situation when my supporters leak my games. Please tell me if you will delete my account because of it?' There was no answer for my question. (I also posted this situation in a hidden group for game developers on F95 in the topic they discussed the purge.) At that time, my account would expire in January 2024. That was the reason why I had to ask them in case I lost my account.
More than a year passed. I thought (or I could say 'I was stupid'.) 'they wouldn't delete my account'. I extended my account until January 2025. So until that time, I already spent $120 for 2 years, plus $100 in the affiliate account. But those $220 disappeared because they banned my account just a week right after I extended my Mega account. The reason they explained to me was: 'This is because the material you shared with others or imported into your account has been shared publicly by some users and been identified as illegal and highly objectionable.'
Yeah. Someone leaked my games, and they deleted my account. After asking a few devs, I discovered that they just got their accounts deleted, too. It seems that there's a purge going on again.
After losing those $220, I spent $96 to buy an account on sync.com. It's not bad even though it's more expensive than Mega and a bit slower than Mega. But I found this on the terms: 'publish or share materials that are unlawfully pornographic or indecent, or that violate the law of any relevant jurisdiction'. It has a risk of being banned like Mega. I need a host to sync files to work so I decided not to use sync.com for downloading game links (in case someone leaks the files and my account gets banned).
At the moment, I'm using MixDrop, Mediafire and WorkUpload for downloading links. If they are slow for you, please suggest a host for me to upload links. But please keep this in mind: I will check to see if the host is fast for me before I can decide to use it (WorkUpload is fast for me while MixDrop and Mediafire are slow).
The image is in MFF-0.7, which I'm trying to release before my New Year Holiday (January 22nd, 2023). We'll have MFF-0.6 before December 18th.
Thank you for reading this long post.
Comments
Captain Kitty
Yeah. It seems that to be able to share files (even though I don't see I'm developing anything illegal), I have to use free hosts. As for sync.com, I can only use to sync files and keep track of previous versions of the files (in case I save on them by mistakes).
Wild Bill
My webhost has a very strict free speech policy, but that's webhosting, if you're serving lots of large downloads it might get expensive. I'm pretty sure the gold standard for files that can't be taken down is still torrents.
