Hey everyone,
We have an early holiday gift for you this year! We’ve just made another update to our systems that should be giving you all faster download speeds. Try it out for yourself and let us know how it works for you.
As always, we appreciate your feedback as we continue to improve the site.
Cheers,
Tom
Hi all, just a quick update today…
We’ve made some improvements to our upload system that should increase speeds across the board. Your uploads should now complete more quickly than before. Thanks again for your support! We’re grateful for all the wonderful feedback we’ve received on the new site.
As always, feel free to drop us a line with any suggestions on how we can continue to improve.
Hi everyone,
Today we rolled out an upgrade to the MediaPro statistics system that significantly decrease the amout of time required to load your statistics reports. Even complex reports should only take a few seconds to load. If you’re already a MediaPro member head over to your statistics page to give it a try.
If you’re a free member and would like to get access to advanced statistics on your files or other great features like bulk-downloads and direct linking, head over to the Upgrade page to learn more and get started.
Hi everyone,
We listened to your feedback and suggestions and now, to accommodate some of your most sought-after features, we’re excited to offer you MediaFire 3.0! Since you demand more from you file host, we launched MediaFire 3.0 to solidify our reputation as being the simplest way to upload, share, and instantly manage your files from any computer.
Here’s some of what’s new:
If you’re already a free MediaFire user or MediaPro account holder, you’ll notice that you’re automatically brought to your My FIles page upon logging in. This decision reflects our realization that the My Files is your primary point of interaction for most of MediaFire’s most popular features.
Following with this new focus you can now upload files directly from your My Files page into whichever folder you’re currently viewing.
Not only did we just add the ability to upload to folders directly from your My Files page, we’ve also completely redesigned the uploader to be faster and easier to use.
You still get the same great features and functionality on the new uploader, but you should also find that the new uploader performs more smoothly – especially for your larger file uploads, which we have just increased limitations on: Free MediaFire account holders can now upload files up to 200MB in size, while MediaPro users can still upload files up to 2GB!
If you’re a MediaPro account holder, now you can embed shared folders in the form of dropboxes on your favorite websites.
With our new uploader, you can place a dropbox on any website that supports javascript, thus allowing your visitors to upload files into a folder you specify from your My Files page. Dropboxes have fully customizable color schemes and security options.
Here’s an example dropbox for you to try out:
Downloading multiple files one at a time can be a hassle, but it’s a thing of the past once you upgrade to a MediaPro account.
You can now download multiple files and folders with one click from your My Files page, a shared folder, or directly from a file download page.
With Silver and Bronze MediaPro accounts, you can add your own custom header to your My Files and shared files pages, allowing you to show your creativity or expand your branding to those who view files hosted in your MediaFire account.
Upload any image and customize the color scheme of your header for a custom look to showcase to your downloaders.
Let your downloaders stay informed with the latest file additions to your shared folders with a simple RSS feed of files uploaded to your account.
With an RSS reader such as Google Reader, your downloaders can keep tabs on your shared folders to stay on top of your latest uploads giving you one more flexible way to distribute your files.
Here’s an RSS feed of the shared folder I use for demonstrations on the blog: RSS for Tom’s Shared Folder
We’ve redesigned our download and image pages to be cleaner, more efficient, and to have a greater focus on the content rather than the interface.
You’ll immediately notice that the interface is dramatically simplified making the download link more prominent on download pages and image navigation on the image pages more accessible.
Hi all,
Just another quick update to let everyone know about some performance upgrades we’ve just rolled out for the My Files page. While all of the updates are behind the scenes, most users should see a performance increase of 60% to 75% and in some cases up to 30 times faster.
Thanks again for all the feedback, we’ll keep you posed as we continue to roll out updates and new features.
- Tom
Hi all,
Just a quick update regarding the image system and our newly supported image formats.
All images site-wide should be back to normal including any images now supported by the new system. We now support all jpg, png, png 24/32, ico, tff, pcx, bmp, and gif images and any previously uploaded images of those formats will now be displayed with thumbnails and embed links as well.
Thanks again for your patience and as always keep the feedback coming, we love to hear how you’re using the site.
- Tom
Hi everyone,
Last night we rolled out a new update to our image hosting system and it may be causing some of your images to display a “file not found” or “image servers offline” error message. I just wanted to post a quick note to reassure everyone that all your files are still there and secure. Essentially the system is still updating all image content and re-rendering the thumbnails for every image currently hosted on MediaFire causing any image that has not yet been updated to display a temporary error. With over 40 million users now hosting with us that’s a lot of images to update! Fortunately, it shouldn’t take too much longer.
By popular request this update to the image hosting system also includes additional support for .png, .tiff, .ico, and .psd formats as well as most other commonly used image file formats and file extensions.
Just to clarify, your image files are still downloadable however thumbnails and embedded versions will appear offline or display an error until the system has completed updating them.
Thanks again for your patience. We’re excited to now finally be supporting even more image types for your galleries and for embedding in your favorite websites.
- Tom
Hey all,
The same updates that fired up (pun intended) your download links have also been applied to the image servers. All images hosted on MediaFire should now display nearly instantaneously making your galleries, embedded images, and direct image-links all much more snappy.
Here’s a few sample images hosted in my account:
Admittedly, I’m not the best photographer out there, but hopefully this gives you a small taste of the speed with which we are now able to serve images as well as files.
Hi everyone,
We just rolled out a big update today and your downloads should launch faster than ever. The update involves the systems behind the scenes that handle your download requests. It’s transparent to the user except for the extra short time between clicking the link and your file downloading.
So what does this mean for you? Well for one it just makes downloading files that much faster and easier, but it also applies to files you stream or direct link with your MediaPro account – allowing them to start streaming even more quickly than before.
So that you can give it a try, I uploaded a few of the latest and greatest web browsers, just choose the one for your operating system to get a taste of the download speeds. If you haven’t tried these or you happen to still be running an older one, you can even install one of these highly recommended browsers to see if you like it.
Google Chrome (Windows Only)
MediaPro Direct LInk:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/jjm4jmt5y4l/ChromeSetup.exe
or from Google:
http://www.google.com/chrome
FireFox (Mac OSX)
MediaPro Direct Link:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/juzwyrgj2zw/Firefox 3.0.11.dmg
FireFox (Windows)
MediaPro Direct link:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/zizylwizyje/Firefox Setup 3.0.11.exe
FireFox (Linux)
MediaPro Direct Link:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/ezeq2umd1yn/firefox-3.0.11.tar.bz2.tar
Or download FireFox from Mozilla:
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/firefox.html
Hi everyone,
Just a quick update on our status. Starting Saturday April 25th at 12:00pm CST MediaFire came under attack by a large Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack that denied services for some customers. The DDoS attack is utilizing over 40,000 70,000* separate computers continuously sending valid requests to MediaFire’s servers in an attempt to overload our systems. We have been able to mitigate the attack without any lasting damage but the attack is still ongoing.
There was no data loss or lasting disruption to the MediaFire free or Pro services. Thanks again to everyone who submitted support tickets notifying us of the issue and for your patience while we deal with this ongoing attack.
- Tom
* updated 7:30pm CST
