One of the popular hosting sites, Zippyshare, has announced that it is closing it's doors in 2 weeks. They disclosed the following reasons as to why they were shutting down, stating:
– Since 2006 we have been on the market in an unchanged form, that is, as ad financed/free file hosting. However, you have been visiting in less and less over the years, as the arguably very simple formula of the services we offer is slowly running out of steam. I guess all the competing file storage service companies on the market look better, offer better performance and more features. No one needs a dinosaur like us anymore.
– All sorts of adblockers, whether built into the browser, as add-ons, or in the form of DNS services. Sure, we all use them, but they take away any control the site owner has over the site. Eventually we get to the point where a vicious cycle begins, in order to pay for the server infrastructure you are forced to place more and more ads, then users fire up more and more adblockers and we get to a point like today.
– Rising electricity prices. Over the past year, electricity prices have gone up 2.5 times, which, with a large number of servers, gives a significant increase in costs that we have no way to balance.
There are still a bunch of smaller reasons, but we could write a book on this, and probably no one would want to read it.
To sum it up, we can no longer afford to maintain the site.
Given how popular the site was back in the day and how widely it was used, there might be some important files hosted on it that will be gone soon. If you want to download anything that's hosted on Zippyshare, now is the time to do so. And if you have anything important uploaded on it, then it's recommended to backup your stuff now, since in two weeks their service will go down.
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