| Rapidshare is popular file hosting service based on the | | | | Just pick your file and press upload, you’ll receive |
| easy exchange of files, especially bigger ones. It has | | | | a rapidshare download link, so you can share it with |
| two different websites, but both sites claim to be | | | | anybody. You personally decide who’s able to |
| entirely different organizations and entities. The | | | | access your files. Only people that know the exact |
| original site is Rapidshare.de, which uses the German | | | | download URL are able to download your file. |
| top-level domain ".de". New site is Rapidshare.com, | | | | According to Alexa, is the 3-month average ranked |
| and it was created because original site has reached | | | | 16th most visited website in the world. |
| its capacity limits. | | | | Rapidshare offers two computer programs to |
| There are two kind of users, free and premium. | | | | simplify file managing: |
| When you want to download a file, you need to wait | | | | Rapidshare Uploader |
| for some time if you are a free user, but if you have | | | | This software allows queuing of uploads. However, it |
| a premium account you don't have to wait and you | | | | cannot resume interrupted uploads. It is available for |
| get better speeds of download. | | | | Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP and runs without |
| Rapidshare hosts all kind of content, including | | | | installation. |
| software, games, movies, music, TV episodes etc. | | | | Rapidshare Manager |
| Size of a uploaded file is limited to 300 MB on | | | | This software has many more features than the |
| Rapidshare.de and 200 MB on Premium users can | | | | Uploader, especially queuing and resuming the upload |
| upload up to 2000 MB. Total server disk capacity on | | | | as well as the downloads (only for the Premium |
| is about 4.5 petabytes (4.5 million gigabytes), with a | | | | Member - free users cannot resume). This facility is |
| data transfer rate of 500 gigabits per second. | | | | available, however, for Windows XP and Windows |
| Sharing your files via the internet using RS is easy. | | | | Vista only. |