Dropbox Traffic Limits

It seems that Dropbox (Basic-free accounts) will only tolerate so much
traffic over a 24 hour period.

I Just got a notification via email that my Public Links have been
temporarily suspended due to excessive traffic.

"This email is an automated notification from Dropbox that your Public
links have been temporarily suspended for generating excessive traffic.
Your Dropbox will continue to function normally with the exception of
Public links."

"The total amount of traffic that all of your links together can
generate without getting banned is 20 GB per day.
The total number of downloads that all of your links together can
generate is 100,000 downloads per day."

"If your account hits our limit, we'll send a message to the email
address registered to your account. Your links will be temporarily
disabled, and anyone who tries to access them will see an error page
instead of your files."

So we have more peeking/downloading lurkers out there than we ever
imagined existed, or we have some excessive peekers among the handful
of usual contributers to rec.photo.digital.

Now I know why I need to use CC sharing more often.
http://adobe.ly/1GmcNBf

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Regards,

Savageduck

On 2015-04-23 16:03:03 +0000, Savageduck said:

It seems that Dropbox (Basic-free accounts) will only tolerate so much
traffic over a 24 hour period.

I Just got a notification via email that my Public Links have been
temporarily suspended due to excessive traffic.

"This email is an automated notification from Dropbox that your Public
links have been temporarily suspended for generating excessive traffic.
Your Dropbox will continue to function normally with the exception of
Public links."

"The total amount of traffic that all of your links together can
generate without getting banned is 20 GB per day.
The total number of downloads that all of your links together can
generate is 100,000 downloads per day."

"If your account hits our limit, we'll send a message to the email
address registered to your account. Your links will be temporarily
disabled, and anyone who tries to access them will see an error page
instead of your files."

It appears my sins have been forgiven, my suspension is lifted, and my
Dropbox Public links have been unleashed on mankind once more.

That said, it's a good thing that I don't have a profesional need fo
Dropbox as that sort of arbitary control over traffic would be
intolerable in a professional world. At least I have Adobe CC, box.com,
and Pogoplug to fall back on if the need should ever arise again. The
lesson has been learned and I will be dividing up my online sharing
tasks in future, relying a lot less on Dropbox.


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Regards,

Savageduck