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RapidGator Goes Down, Suspended by Hosting Company

RapidGator.net has been one of the fastest growing file-hosting sites since the demise of MegaUpload.

In less that half a year it grew from zero to millions of users a day.

However, today RapidGator users have been unable to reach their favorite site.

While some fear a second Megaupload-like shutdown, the current outage appears to stem from a dispute with the company’s hosting partner.

“Our hoster have suspended our account. We are working on possible solution,” the company reportedly commented on the downtime.

The above suggests that the cyberlocker is trying to find a new webhost, or attempting to resolve the current issues.

This is not the first time RapidGator goes down. In February the site said it would quit their business after Paypal threw them out. However, the troubled cyberlocker eventually chose to continue operating.

Update: Rapidgator posted an update.

DEAR CUSTOMERS,

WE ARE MOVING OUR SERVERS TO NEW HOST.
SERVICE WILL BE RESUMED IN A FEW DAYS.

PLEASE ACCEPT OUR APOLOGIES FOR ANY INCONVENIENCE.
PARTNERS PAYOUTS WILL BE SENT ONES SITE IS FULLY OPERATIONAL.
(WE SIMPLY DO NOT HAVE ACCESS TO OUR DATABASE NOW TO MAKE PAYOUT THIS WEEK)

RAPIDGATOR.NET TEAM


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  • Anonymous

    Man these guys just don’t seem to catch a break.  First their ordeal with PayPal and now this.

    • http://twitter.com/icanhazsake Ninja

       The power trying to strangle a legit business because it goes against their interests. Classic.

  • Mcjimick

    I had rapidshare – lost everything, had hotfile – lost everything, have useless fileserve
    and was given a friends rapidgator account – never again – will rely on torrents

    • Good news

      welcome back!

      Pay2Leech is not as good as sharing between people.

    • Guest

      Welcome back to the swarm bro.

      • ndmushroom

        Somewhat unrelated, but I can’t wait for the day some lawyer is going to try to use comments such as this to justify claims of “conspiracy to copyright infringement”, equating a sense of community with a “secret handshake” of some shady criminal organization.

        • http://profiles.google.com/zerianis10 Christopher Kidwell

          Good luck. Considering it is estimated that 75% of the people on the internet have used bittorrent AND that it might be legal under the ‘fair use, timeshifting, etc.’ arguments?

          Good luck to them.

    • http://lyrici.com/ Lyrici

      Nowadays every file host they delete files without notifying, coz they want to survive they never care about users

      • http://profiles.google.com/zerianis10 Christopher Kidwell

        Unfortunately true. If anyone reports any link for ‘copyright infringement’ it’s BOOM! Gone, without a chance for appeal.

  • Anon

    They should take this opportunity to move to a new domain outside control of US.

  • Ewqewqewqeqe

    If anyone need to use a temp host i suggest you use either Oron.com or mediafire.com

    • Chameleon87

      Mediafire? Are you effin serious?!

      They delete files at will and suspend accounts with no explanation why.

      They also (as an example) took down the free (!) mp3 from Kim Dotcom about John Banks within 6 hours of it being uploaded, just because it was a f*ckin mp3 file.

    • Ibizaddl

      mediafire.com  Sucks!!! they have deleted many accounts from me.

  • John Space

    RapidGator has been a bitch to JDownloader lately. Maybe nothing of value is being lost?

    • Derp

       lol @ JDownloader nuff said.

      • anon56778

        Why, what app do you prefer?

  • 7seven85

    Bu why their host suspended their account ?

    • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_TMJ66JH4SIZIQ46DJIQCC6TCYI Alfred

      They owe the host money?

  • RG IS A FAILHOST

    Because rapidgator = N00bs and cannot pay the bills.

    What bills do you think are linked with a top 300 most visited website? You have to be stupid to think people will mass-flock to their service via their Credit Card gateway which will rape them of charges when chargebacks happen.

    The only reason why people continue to use them is that they “pay” affiliates. Those affiliates have not come to realise that after the Megaupload-takedown the game has changed tremendously. Making money OFF files from AMATEUR hosts is not do-able any longer. Have fun you fucking morons.

    • RG IS A FAILHOST

      Moving to another host? God please.

      If RG really was a serious host they wouldn’t be back in a few days. Hosts like MegaUpload/Rapidshare sits on a minimum of 1000-2000 servers. Doesn’t take a few days to take them out and set them up again for a new hoster.

      Fact is that RG sits on less than 50 servers, bleeds the servers dry and gives the crappiest speeds/unstable connections out there and yet cannot pay their bills because their Paypal got taken away.

      For all those that still believe they’re a good host…You ever seen this from the big players? No. These are one man host actions that just tend to get your money and jet off. Not in fear of the FBI, but just because they cannot sustain in this business.

  • Mwhahaha

    I struggle to care about cyberlockers, I know I should, I just don’t.

    They sit in a weird place between pirate sharing and legitimate business, I can’t help but  bracket them with traditional publishers, in so much as they’re taking profits away from the creator of the (pirated) works they (clearly intend) to let people upload.

    I know all arguments which run against this view, but until the legal issues are resolved in the MU case about liability for the uploads etc I think anyone running a cyberlocker service which has the capacity to share pirated works is either very dumb, very hopeful, very dedicated or just plain greedy.

    Which ever they are I still find it hard to care.

    • Guest

      “they’re taking profits away from the creator of the (pirated) works”

      GTFO. It’s been well established by independant study after independant study that pirates don’t take profits away from the creators of pirated works. Uploading a copyrighted file to a cyberlocker doesn’t magically change that. 

      • Gash

         The area goes a bit greyer when we start talking about cyberlockers.

        BitTorrent: This is awesome, I’ll upload it and share!

        Cyberlockers: People like this, I’ll upload it and get money per click.

        If there’s money involved I want it to go to the artist, and if you upload a new tv show as soon as it airs then you’re going to generate a lot of traffic and potentially a decent amount of money. This is parasitic – as bad as, if not worse than, the major labels/distributors.

        Fuck cyberlocker “rewards”.

        Sharing is caring – simple as.

    • Andrew Lee

       You want to know how to stop online file sharing?!! Kill the internet!!

      Then people can move to alternate methods of sharing that were more popular years ago.

      Guess they should ban all systems with a record option as well and toss out anything that has the capability to store data.

      Guess they should also ban people with photographic memories that can remember whole books verbatim. I suggest a shotgun to ban or a grenade.

      Oh don’t forget about people that can remember songs! I suggest a nuke for more populated areas then napalm for the more suburban areas.

      We could also install chips in everyone! Then have a kill switch for them dirty fuckers “stealing” movies,music, and software.

      Or or OR OR! We could force the companies to do a little bit of work to their absurdly outdated business models that were designed to run in a non internet world.

      Come on even if you do support their current actions the fact still remains! YOU’RE ONLY IMPORTANT “and by that I mean not very damn important at all” TO THEM AS LONG AS THEY GET YOUR MONEY! Still they could care less if you were raped and murdered by fat zombie lesbian dildo packing  strippers “not the hot kind” aka TSA!

      • MMM, SOPA

        Y U NO LIKE SOPA FLAVOR KOOL-AID? DRINK! DRINK! DRINK!

    • ndmushroom

      Are you suggesting there’s no legitimate use for cyberlockers? How about backing up your own files somewhere accessible from anywhere in the world? How about sending your friends a big zip file containing your holiday photos, or send your colleagues in NYC the modified powerpoint presentation for tomorrow’s meeting from your laptop in Japan? Stuff that is too big to fit as an attachment to an email? Yeah, torrents are quite good at this sort of thing too, but they require seeders, which means that you have to leave your computer on (and online) until they grab the entire file (insert different time zones, it becomes virtually impossible). There’s tons of non-copyright infringing stuff on cyberlockers, for a reason.
      Having said that, I agree with you that paid subscriptions and reward schemes in practice tend to be more related to copyright infringement than not.

      • http://profiles.google.com/zerianis10 Christopher Kidwell

        No such thing as ‘copyright infringement’. It’s the same thing as handing your copy of X thing to a friend or relative, which is not illegal in the slightest.

        In fact, if they tried to make that illegal…. REVOLT ARMED AND DANGEROUS! Bottom fucking line there.

        They are just trying to make filesharing illegal in order to ‘get their foot in the door’ for doing the above and it will backfire on them big time.

        • lol

           ”No such thing as ‘copyright infringement’. It’s the same thing as
          handing your copy of X thing to a friend or relative, which is not
          illegal in the slightest.”

          This may be the stupidest fucking thing I have ever read.

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  • mark steele

    lol, I’ve given up on torrents AND cyberlockers (IRC FTW)

  • http://www.simplekitchenandbath.com/ Johanna Dugan

    The above suggests that the cyberlocker is trying to find a new webhost, or attempting to resolve the current issues.

  • …damn

    …i came here BECAUSE I CANT DOWNLOAD MY SUPPOSED FILE!!

  • John_casey

    To those of you who believe torrentz are the solution, I am sorry but my time is worth something. I am always signed up to 3-4 services like Fileserve, Filesonic, Rapidgator, etc… at a time. I tend to use the servers that show up on my searches most often as an indicator which service to sign up to next when another goes down. I download movies in 5 mins and tv shows in 1-2 mins. You can rarely if ever say that with Torrentz. I download up to 60 currently airing TV episodes a week and have never not been able to get one using this methodology.

    The government had their girly hissy fit on Megaupload and a dozen new services spawned out of it. Just like going into Iraq caused more terrorists, taking down one file sharing site will spawn more. Every time they attack, it increases my resolve to download whatever I can and share it out. Fact is they can’t stop file sharing, especially now with all their other fuck ups, they can’t afford to keep up these militant actions without risking more protests.

    • Psychoalphadisco

      [quote]Fileserve, Filesonic, Rapidgator [/quote]
      why taking them as examples? they’re all longtime dead, dickhead

  • Anonymous

     http://bit.ly/KpDKUP

  • http://www.lovegroveconsulting.com/dvds.aspx Julie Lovegrove

    Perhaps everyone who downloads copyrighted material could spare a thought for the small businesses who are going under because their hard work and investments are being ripped off, meaning that fewer people actually pay for what they’ve produced.  

    • T0t4r4

      Maybe they should change their business model too, hu ?

    • GodProtectAmerica

       I don’t give a shit whether Madonna, Cher, and all of thier ilk ever get a penny for their shit tunes.

  • Utd4Life

    Rapidgator has gone down again tonight. Does anyone know why?

  • H551251

    @Utd4Life, that’s exactly why i’m here, just noticed it was down again.

  • Share 2k

    Why don’t you use smaller websites like http://www.share2k.com, these smaller websites is smaller and doesn’t have so many eyes  on it:) ?

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