RapidShare
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RapidShare was an online file hosting service that opened in 2002. In 2009, it was among the Internet's 20 most visited websites and claimed to have 10 petabytes of files uploaded by users with the ability to handle up to three million users simultaneously. Following the takedown of similar service Megaupload in 2012, RapidShare changed its business model to deter the use of its services for distribution of files to large numbers of anonymous users and to focus on personal subscription-only cloud-based file storage. Its popularity fell sharply as a result and, by the end of March 2015, RapidSh
Key facts
- Website.name
- RapidShare
- Website.logo
- RapidShare.svg
- Website.company_type
- Aktiengesellschaft
- Website.caption
- Screenshot of rapidshare.com home page
- Website.location
- Schochenmühlestrasse 6, 6340 Baar, Switzerland (canton of Zug)
- Website.website_type
- Online backup service
- Website.language
- English, French, German and Spanish
- Website.advertising
- Subscription
- Website.registration
- Optional
- Website.current_status
- Offline
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- rapidshare.com
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- inception
- 2002-05-27
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 2015-03-31
- Alexa rank
- 191544
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8 sectionsContents
- History
- Operation and services
- Software
- RapidShare Uploader
- RapidShare Manager
- Legal issues
- See also
- References
RapidShare was an online file hosting service that opened in 2002. In 2009, it was among the Internet's 20 most visited websites and claimed to have 10 petabytes of files uploaded by users with the ability to handle up to three million users simultaneously. Following the takedown of similar service Megaupload in 2012, RapidShare changed its business model to deter the use of its services for distribution of files to large numbers of anonymous users and to focus on personal subscription-only cloud-based file storage. Its popularity fell sharply as a result and, by the end of March 2015, RapidShare ceased to operate and it is defunct. As of 2017, Rapidshare AG was acquired by Kingsley Global.
== History == RapidShare was founded by Christian Schmid in Mulheim, Germany, initially as ezShare later Rapid Share, a file hosting service for his RapidForum web forum hosting services. In 2004, he started the company RapidShare AG, which went online in August 2004 then moved its premises to Baar, Switzerland in 2006. Schmid avoids the public eye, but took over management of the company after longtime CEO and COO Bobby Chang left in April 2010.