On Reliability and Redundancy
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
March 21st, 2007 at 4:40 pm
Hey Tom, nice going, I think you remember me from that email. I need you to do me a favor and email me again about some corporate business opportunities. I don’t think you got my last email. Thank you for you service.
March 22nd, 2007 at 3:38 am
This -is- an awesome service, but I ran into two glaring glitches today.
My user account disappeared today for no reason. Not a huge deal, but it was an unexpected and slightly irritating event.
My major gripe is that the top animated advertising banner is raising itself above the login applet causing text fields to be obscured on firefox 2.0 & opera 9.1. A fix would be much appreciated.
Mediafire is a bold, ambitious project. I wish you all the best of luck and fortune!
`N
March 22nd, 2007 at 3:43 am
Hi Leo, I’m not sure if I received it either. I just sent an email your way now though, feel free to shoot back a reply with a little more info regarding what you wanted to contact us about.
March 22nd, 2007 at 3:52 am
Hi Nigel, you might have just hit the site during some of that maintenance I was speaking of. If you’re still having trouble shoot an email to our support department (ie rest of the development team and I) and we’d be happy to take a closer look into it as soon as we’re done with this big upgrade.
March 23rd, 2007 at 12:48 am
Can i ask what the upgrades are going to be? I’m jumping in my chair wondering that’s all hehe, take care and keep up the good work
March 23rd, 2007 at 6:32 am
Hi Dave, we’ve got a lot of new hardware coming in so it’s mostly back-end stuff this time. The new hardware is here to help power some fun new features which are coming in the next couple weeks though
May 13th, 2007 at 11:56 pm
Hmm… Interesting thing.
I like the fact that you guys keep two copies of everything.
MediaFire is a great way to share some family videos with my folks in the States.
Awesome guys..
Keep it up !