Well, if you want to try it, you can contact me. I believe you can see my email..

Only sites giving me half decent speeds[free user] are,wupload,bayfiles,mediafire,and thats about it .Its hard to get good download speeds like MU use to have  :(

I don't know of any IP bans.
Do you have more information? Eg, error messages, can you ping/traceroute the server, etc?

Looks like Fileserving really gets overloaded during prime-time on the weekends. Night and day difference compared to a couple days ago, since I'm now seeing only seeing ~250KBps.

Still considerably better than Jumbofiles, which seems to be at ~50KBps right now.

With Bayfiles, the 5 minute wait time is still annoying as hell, but they continue to offer the most reliable speed of ~350KBps for free registered users.

Why I can't open the site at home? I had to open Tor to see for new episodes. Was I banned or something.

I'm mainly interested in seeing if anyone else wants to comment on the host, so no need to keep putting it up :)
Thanks a lot for the offer Insence. Main issue with accounts is that they're easy to nuke, should that ever happen, which is why anonymous uploads are slightly preferred. But if it's a premium account, the host may be less willing to nuke the account, if there's a periodic payments to be received (so lifetime membership has this downside).
Nevertheless, if you don't mind the possibility of losing your account due to reports, I'll consider it if other people think the host is decent.

Thanks again for the suggestion + offer.

Fair enough, there seems to be a fair amount of support for Bayfiles.
I'm just testing JumboFiles and DDLAnime for now. The latter is new, so no-one knows how well they'll last, and it's the only host which is uploaded with an account. Account limited to 500GB storage only; if we assume around 15GB uploaded per day, that'll deplete a short while after one month, so I don't see DDLAnime as suitable for long term storage. Maybe that'll increase in the future.

So choices are between Bayfiles, JumboFiles or DDLAnime, at the moment.
Are there any other single host people think would be better than Bayfiles?

To admin, if you agree to use SlingFile.com to host the Anime, I wouldn't mind if you want to use my account which is Premium for lifetime.

Again in the main page, only embedupload (rapidshare) is available. Please do not turn off BayFiles. Do away with some other hosters if you have to. BayFiles' advantage is it that mirrors are up very fast and speeds are reasonable.

By all means go ahead Blueberry :)
I don't think this site will ever maintain old/broken links, but anyone's welcome to post their own mirrors, and I'm sure there'll be some that are grateful for your doing so.

Thanks for taking the time to check that (I just made a guess based off their main domain).
I don't know how their servers are exactly set up, but I know that I can specifically set one in the upload script, should it be possible to guess a good one (whether or not files are then transferred is unknown to me).

You are very correct that latency generally has a negligible impact on throughput; I was making a comment based on crude logic, that longer distance usually implies more hops, which may imply higher probability of a congested link (although many intermediary links are like 10+Gbps, so unlikely).

Thanks for the info.

Please upload on SlingFile.com

Thanks!

Would you mind if I posted mirrors to files in comments that I download from here?
I wouldn't mind assisting this site and helping it stay live :]

Please please, upload on SlingFile.com too..

Jumbofiles appears to use 100+ servers split between Netherlands and USA using the www subdomains www2.jumbofiles.com through www166.jumbofiles.com. None of their servers are in Canada as far as I can tell.

Currently www144.jumbofiles.com on Leaseweb appears to either be horribly overloaded or they are throttling USA. Unfortunately that's where the majority of Animetosho files were being uploaded to recently. The past couple files have changed to www95.jumbofiles.com, a USA server, which seems a bit better @~200KB/s (though still slower than Bayfiles in Sweden which throttles free users), but again it shows signs of being overloaded with speed fluctuating all over the place. As far as reliability goes, Jumbofiles seems rather poor, unless you find a way to force each file to be uploaded to a unique Jumbofiles subdomain to hopefully ease their load. As yet another mirror, it never hurts though.

Distance and latency in the big picture usually makes little difference as long as bandwidth capacity is available. I can easily max out my FTTH connection anywhere in the world as long as the server/datacenter has bandwidth capacity available and everything is configured properly.

Currently, I'm testing a few hosts, but thanks a lot for your feedback - will take into consideration when I decide what to use.

Perhaps their pipes are full, especially considering JumboFiles looks like they're in Canada, and Bayfiles in Sweeden.

Speed seemed to haven drooped due to the traffic? Nonetheless still a good alternative.

I have to agree that JumboFiles is extremely slow, at least from the USA. The guy above is lucky that he even gets 100KBps, as my avg speed from Jumbofiles is ~25KBps. Even with a 5 minute wait-time on BayFiles, the 15x quicker download speed makes up for it, allowing files to finish in a matter of minutes rather than  _hours_ like with Jumbofiles. Though as long as Mediafire is kept around, I don't really care either way.

Main reason is that I always store md5 sums for episodes, but not the full video details or screenshots.
For people coming from AniDB it might be helpful too, since they also store crc/md5/sha sums

Hope you are not doing away with Bayfiles in favour of JumboFiles. It's true Bayfiles has that 6 min waiting time but speeds are very good (I get in excess of 350 KBps). In JumboFiles even with multiple connections, I am not getting speeds above 100 KBps

Have you looked into using http://www.fileserving.com as an additional host?
They seem to offer unusually fast upload and download speeds for free accounts (I can max out my 25Mbit/25Mbit from out here in California on their service) when you consider they hosted in Toronto, Canada. No clue about their reliability though.

Blame EmbedUpload >_>

Interesting suggestion - I'll consider it. Out of interest, any particular purpose for it?
AniDB file matching is rather difficult in my experience, so it probably won't be that.