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As I briefly mentioned in the last post, we’re doing a series of upgrades to MediaFire’s infrastructure this week as well as some additional minor upgrades next week. Yesterday’s maintenance marked the first in this series as we took MediaFire offline to install some new high-end networking hardware and upgrade our database servers.

Unfortunately, this upgrade took much longer than we anticipated due to a faulty piece of said high-end networking hardware failing shortly after installation. Everything is up and running again however we will need to take the site down for a little while today to finalize the installation. We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience the prolonged outage may have caused you. We’re working around the clock to ensure that this does not happen again and future maintenance is performed with the absolute minimum possible impact to the site’s functionality.

Although we still have a few other scheduled upgrades (which may include some brief downtime) to perform over the next few days, most should be fairly transparent to the user experience and should not interrupt the service for any prolonged periods of time.

So what do all these upgrades mean for MediaFire? Essentially it means we’re in the process of gearing up to launch some of your most frequently requested new features, so check back here within the next couple weeks for a more exciting update.

In the meantime, I’ll keep you all informed about how things are going with the upgrade as it continues. And as always, if you happen to find any new bugs you want us to squash, or if you have any last minute comments or suggestions for the next feature roll-out, drop us a message over on the contact page.

Tom
The MediaFire Team

Hey everyone,

It’s been a while since I’ve posted so I’m taking a quick break from development to bring up something that we’ve received a lot of email questions about; “is MediaFire reliable enough to use as a backup solution?”

We’re glad to hear that a lot of people choose MediaFire because it’s the easiest and fastest way to host files and share them with others. One of the more transparent features of MediaFire is the reliability of the system that’s running everything behind the scenes. While we currently do not recommend MediaFire as a backup solution per-se, one of the things that helps make MediaFire one of the most reliable file distribution systems is the fact that we actually keep two copies of all your files on our servers at all times.

That might sound like a crazy thing for a free service to provide but we’re obsessive about network performance here at MediaFire. This redundancy helps keep your valuable data accessible even in the rare event that one of our servers or drives happens to go down for a bit. In such an event MediaFire automatically reroutes your downloaders to the available server which provides an almost interruptible download source for all your file distribution needs. Is it still possible that a file might still be temporarily inaccessible? Of course there’s always a chance that two servers with the same file might take a break at the same time… but the chances are extremely low, and even if they do we’re working on a solution for that too.

I’d also like to take this opportunity to bring up one exception to this rule… our scheduled maintenance periods. We’re actually going to be performing a few of these over the next couple weeks and although we do our best to schedule these during off-peak hours, I apologize if this is going to cause any inconvenience. We will of course throw up the usual warning message across the site several hours before any of these upgrades.

Alright back to work

- Tom