Its upgrade time and this time we have gone all out to make sure we have continued reliability as well as increased available storage space and big performance gains through out the entire service.

Over the past month we have been working hard behind the scenes finding the best solutions to go forward with. Not only will we have new main servers that will power the website and app services that you see but we have an all new storage solution that will allow us to store many times more files then we currently do.

This is what our storage servers look like

This is just one of two storage servers that will be used initially. Each server will hold 16 TB worth of your files that equates to 5 - 5.5 Million files per server. Each server is also protected against drive failure.

So whats going to happen?

Starting next week we are going to start by migrating all user data over to the new storage servers, during this time you should't notice anything different, and you don't have to do anything different. Just use the site as your normally would. Once all user data has been migrated we will send all traffic to the new servers.

What does this all mean for me?

Simple. Overall a much faster and better service. Currently we are pushing about 2 million downloads per day. That is about max our currently servers can handle before the server load starts to get out of hand. Our new setup will allow is to effectively triple our download capacity to over 6 million per day. That means you can share a lot more.

The other benefit that will help out everyone is download speeds will greatly improve. We know that this has been a complaint by many users and we are finally taking care of it. If you are on a premium account you will noticed a massive increase in the download speed of your files as long as your connection if fast enough. Free users will also get a bump in download speeds from 250 KB/s to 350 KB/s max.

If you would like to see what download speeds you should see from the new servers you can use this test file here.

We will post updates on our twitter account as they happen. As always if you have any questions please ask them.

Thanks,
Uploadingit Team.