Images Display Faster Too

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…

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Downloads Now Launch Even Faster

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. ย 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…

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DDoS Attack on MediaFire Servers

Hi everyone, Just a quick update on our status.ย  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*ย  separate computers continuously sending valid requests to MediaFire’s servers in an attempt…

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Files in Multiple Folders

Hi everyone, Quick update to the site. By popular demand you can now upload the same file into multiple folders. This feature allows you to create duplicate files across your folders just in case you want to send a different set of files to different people. To upload a file into more than one folder,…

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Flash Player Update and Fixed Copy Links

Hi everyone, Quick update to let you all know that a recent update to Adobe’s Flash player rendered many of the copy and paste links across the site unusable.ย  We’ve fixed the problem and all copy links should now be working again for you.ย  We’ve been busy adding capacity to the network to accomidate MediaFire’s…

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Performance Updates

In the past few months the popularity of MediaFire has increased significantly and with it we’ve encountered many performance challenges along the way.ย  Recently we’ve focused our efforts on significantly optimizing the general performance of all components of the site in order to serve this increased demand as efficiently as possible.ย  Over the past few…

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Longer File Names

Just a quick update for today. The file name character limit of 100 characters has been raised by popular demand. MediaFire now supports file names up to 255 characters. Fortunately the new My Files page will also better accommodate those longer file names. As always, please let us know if there are any other changes…

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My Files Page Refreshed

Hi Everyone, We rolled out a visual update to the My Files page today.ย  It’s been a while since we made any significant updates to the My Files page simply because it’s been working so well for everyone. As the site develops and grows however we’re making room for new features and improve on the…

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High Five

LifeHacker just named MediaFire the “Best Online File Sharing Service” in their ongoing High Five feature series. It’s a great article with some really useful tools (and no I’m not just saying that because we’re on there) all recomended by the LifeHacker readers. Each winner represents the best of the best as most recommended in…

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Google Chrome – works great with MediaFire

As I’m sure many of you have heard, Google just launched their new web browser called “Chrome.” After playing around with it a little today, I have to admit, I’m really impressed. Since Chrome is designed explicitly for web applications and contains an entirely new JavaScript engine called “V8” it’s perfect for rendering your My…

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