Torrent has been on the internet for a while so are file hosting sites. So why does file hosting getting such popularity in recent years? In the past, offering unlimited download isn't a feasible plan because the bandwidth cost is freaking expensive. Although it's getting cheaper and cheaper each year, it's still too expensive to offers unlimited download. So their plan is offers one free download at a time, that's mean you can't download 2 files at the same time in any given time, unless you are using two different IP addresses of course. And they also offers premium account which give you unlimited download speed & slot which means you can download as many files as you like at a time. Premium account comes with a price vary for each sites. Take rapidshare as example, they offers premium account at low as $3.99 per 24 hours, and it gets cheaper of you subscribe longer for a month or year. It's rather cheap and tempting to get your favourite files as quick as possible, even faster than using a torrent, torrent is free though.
There are both advantages and disadvantages using either torrent or file hosting site. It depends which works better for the users. Torrent has been involved in illegal download activities since it released and it gets lots of controversy and attention from the companies and internet provider. Your internet provider might limit your torrent download speed or block it totally as it's eating up a lot of the bandwidth & might slow down other users internet experience. Thus, peoples starting to look for alternative solution, that's file hosting sites. As you are downloading through the site server, it looks like normal downloading process and you aren't sharing anything. There's no way they can block it, but some internet provider gets clever enough to limit your bandwidth. Whatever you are doing, you can only use that much of bandwidth each month.
If you are th type of person who does not like to "seed", meaning "sharing". Using file hosting site is the best way to get free download. You'll be able to get what you want eventually if you are patient enough. Most file hosting sites even download as a free users, you can get a very decent download speed. But the bad thing is if there's no one uploading the file, you can't download it. And sometime files might be removed by the site because of inactivity or illegal content. It happens a lot, that's why you need to be fast or wait for the next upload. A lot of peoples are now using file hosting site such as rapidshare, badongo, mediafire, hotfile...etc to share their files. So it wasn't to hard to find one that you are looking for.
As for torrent, although it can be slow sometime because of less seeders. It's still the best for more stable download as you don't have to worry about disconnecting or file has been removed issues. The files will be there as long as there's seeder and you can continue where you left off anytime whereas file hosting sites don't normally support resume download. If you stop at 90% foe any reasons, then you'd have to download it all over again. It's a pain in the ass. But still, both way are free and you should be happy about it.
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