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Remote Upload changes

Mon, 06 Jun 2011 00:45:35 +0000

Pleas refer to : http://members.rapidgen.net/announcements/17/Remote-Upload-Changes.html

LR/WMZ Payments

Sun, 17 Oct 2010 17:02:16 +0000

Hi,

Since i've been getting quite a lot of requests to post an announcement about LR/WMZ.

Here you go:

Libertyreserve.com - LR
wmtransfer.com - Wmz

Once you are registered on there/logged on and funded your account. Send the amount for your VIP membership (Bronze/Gold/Plat) to one either of our below accounts (LR or WMZ). In Memo, put your username + VIP subscription you paid for.

LR: U7450080 (RG)
WMZ: Z105775327538

Refer here for prices.

PM me AND rapidgen with transaction details when done (Recipient's Name: Admin | Other Recipients: rapidgen ) We will have to upgrade your account manually. Note that activation take only a couple of minutes after you pay or up to 24 hours because of time differences.

Thanks!

Connection Limiter

Sat, 23 Jan 2010 06:49:09 +0000

Well we've been having users using sometimes around 30 split parts per download, and seeing as we stream files directly using php, that many processes grinds apache and the server to a halt. As a result, we've had to install a connection limiter to the server.

This way, a lot of 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable errors might occur to you but it doesn't mean you're banned or anything, it's just the connection limiter at work. The way it works is, every user is checked to see how many connections they have to the server at any given time. The server is set to block any connections that go above a preset amount. If a user exceeds this amount, they will receive a 503 error at that point. The 503 error will continue until the user either disconnects or one of the connections is closed, or times out.

This is effective for download managers, but can wreak havoc on users trying to download the 'normal' way, i.e. directly in their browser. Downloading via browser normally only allows one connection anyway, so if you already have more than the allowed amount of simultaneous connections to the site, you'll get a 503 when you try to download. The only way to get over this is to check you aren't connected any other way to the site, e.g. loads of open browser tabs.

Say for 7 max connections: (hope this explains it!) - when you are in the gen homepage, that is one connection active already plus 6 free; if you load into IDM 2 downloads, that's it (all connections will be used up) because IDM tries to split each download into nearly 30 parts per link, so your first link would start downloading with a max of 6 split parts, and the second link would give 503 until the first link cleared up some parts or finished downloading!

In a download manager, you can 'queue' your download, so that the download manager will appear to 'keep trying' every so many seconds (usually 5) for the download to start. The 503 error returned in this case will not fail the download, it will stay alive and keep trying until it gets access. In this case it would be preferable to change the 'retry' value in your download manager to say 15 seconds so as not to hammer the server with requests.

The preset values for limits at the moment are:

1024000kbps (1Gbps) Limit Overall (as we have a fast vps cloud)
20 rps limit (requests per second)
2500 connections overall

For remote clients (each user), the limit is set at 7 (no more than 7 connections per indivdual user).

So as you can see there are several factors which could result in a 503 error. For example, if any user decided to visit the site and gets a 503, then the overall limit of connections has been reached, so try again

If you have a suggestion for what a suitable connection limit, or other values might be then feel free to suggest. The values I quote above are subject to change without warning...as I'm still testing what the current limits are, and I will change based on them.

Thanks!

NEW!! Hotfile premium downloads

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:47:49 +0000

We now support Hotfile premium link downloads! (Thanks to Admin for providing a hotfile account!)

Just add your list of Hotfile links as shown into the link box and hit Convert.

Seeing as Hotfile don't have any download limits, it would be a waste to still allow 1GB for normal users across all accounts, so this will be adjusted in the future.

'My Links' - New Feature

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 02:24:03 +0000

Sometimes when you were downloading, you may have experienced problems with resuming expired links (all generated links 'expire' after 24hrs). When a link is generated, you have 24 hrs to fully download it, otherwise the link will become 'inactive' (expired), which would leave you with the singular option of regenerating it, even if you hadn't fully downloaded it! But, regenerated links of the same rapidshare links cannot be resumed by replacing them in your download managers. You would have to start the new generated link from the very start again.

Instead, you can now have a new section unique to each user which lists all links generated by each, and you have the option of extending links if you want to resume them (but the link had expired before you got a chance).

To access your link list, click on 'My Links' at the top of the generator index page when you have logged in.

More features will be added for bulk link selection actions soon.

Enjoy!

NEW!! Megaupload Premium Generator

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:36:18 +0000

Hello members

We are testing a new method for generating premium links for Megaupload, simply go here to test it for yourself.

With this generator there are no limits, but we are unsure if Megaupload will terminate accounts based on IP. Let's just hope they don't, otherwise the site won't work anymore

Anyway enjoy for now and please give some feedback if it works good for you!