Time to retire old direct download sites like Rapidgator

[Haiyami]

So I have noticed many downloads use filenhosting sites such as Mexshare. Hexshare, katfile. Rapidgator, and rose. But it's 2025 now and many of these sites are unreliable, slow and offer higher download speed for money that is most likely a scam. The sites don't have any longevity to them either.

The few reliable sites thst produce long lasting links are places like like Dropbox, Mega, Mediafire, Proton Drive, OneDrive, Google Drive, or for more advanced users setting up a Linux distribution server that has direct download links. This site using these disposable file servers are antiquated and I think anime-sharing needs to set a new policy to bring us to the modern file-sharing age. Personally I recommend ProtonDrive, Mega or mediafire. And the last resorts would be OneDrive or the final resort being Google Drive for file sharing purposes for direct downloads.

 

[ALVIBO]

Some of the longest-lived links for me are premium Rapidgator links. Also, some uploaders clearly use these hosts to earn money, which they can then spend on buying more games to upload.

 

[Viridem]

Yeah, the more mainstream filehosts will quickly respond to DMCA requests. Keeping the links alive for such a huge collection is going to be really hard.

 

[muugu]

Some of the longest-lived links for me are premium Rapidgator links. Also, some uploaders clearly use these hosts to earn money, which they can then spend on buying more games to upload.

I just wish their prices were a little better, 15usd is hard to justify spending due to the purchasing power my currency has.

This site using these disposable file servers are antiquated and I think anime-sharing needs to set a new policy to bring us to the modern file-sharing age.

Torrents kinda fill the gap, but they're not used that much (even though IMO they're the best choice to distribute this kind of content), and are often dead if you're looking to get anything that isn't popular, older than 5 years, or a combination of both, so they end up being quite unreliable as well.

 

[R18_4DD1CT3D]

I just wish their prices were a little better, 15usd is hard to justify spending due to the purchasing power my currency has.

Torrents kinda fill the gap, but they're not used that much (even though IMO they're the best choice to distribute this kind of content), and are often dead if you're looking to get anything that isn't popular, older than 5 years, or a combination of both, so they end up being quite unreliable as well.

While torrents sound like a good option they have a "weakness" which is that they reveal the IP address of the seeders and downloaders, so to keep a torrent alive there should be at least one person or service seeding permanently or else having to recieve requests to reseed every week, then the bigger problem is the fact that if the seeded content has problems with copyright, instead of going to yell at a hosting company they can track the IPs and make the problems a bad thing for the users seeding, this can be solved by using a VPN but VPNs that are actually good are not free.

 

[muugu]

so to keep a torrent alive there should be at least one person or service seeding permanently or else having to recieve requests to reseed every week

Compared to regular filehosts, there's more people aside from the original uploader doing the uploading, so it's not wholly dependent on them to do the seeding, which helps with availability. With filehosts, you have to wait for the uploader to see the reupload request (and they often have a truckload of those), and also hope they haven't deleted or lost the files.
There's also the issue of the average peer's behavior, which is to just hit and run. Ideally people would seed for longer to allow the contents to spread further. That's probably not changing so soon but having more people making more torrents would help keeping what one is looking for available for longer.

this can be solved by using a VPN but VPNs that are actually good are not free.

Most VPNs I could find end up being cheaper than RG though, even on non-yearly plans. You can use a VPN for a lot more than downloading files, while with Rapidgator Premium, unless you're a massive data hoarder and plan on downloading every single thing you come across on A-S, you might not even use it as much as you would a VPN. It's more bang for your buck IMO.

 

[Lolololok]

i mean i use debrid site so %80 of the mainstream sites are fine for me

 

[lewdfacesan]

i mean i use debrid site so %80 of the mainstream sites are fine for me

this, i pay $10 for a 90 day subscription for one and it is absolutely worth it in my opinion. you can download literally terabytes of stuff from here + torrents from elsewhere.