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RIP Zippy, one of the best filehosters with great speed and no noticable limits between downloads

at least there is still Uptobox with very reasonable limits on free accounts (30mins between files and 30 seconds wait time + pretty big file size) and Mega (no waiting, but ~5GB per day)

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Conveniently Mega only limits you by IP address, not account. You can just swap VPN locations and keep downloading. 1fichier is also pretty incredible.

Zippyshare should add limits and advertise for nordvpn to circumvent these limits.

You should try out https://filepost.io (Disclaimer - I own it) I do feel for zippy though. Even for my site, Ad revenue has completely dried up and infrastructure costs now outweigh my revenue.

I run https://pixeldrain.com. At the start of this year I completely removed all ads from my site. I'm done with checking ad network after ad network only to find out that they all pay the same: pennies.

Pixeldrain now runs on subscribers over at Patreon and it's working quite well actually.

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