Hari ini dateng email pemberitahuan dari DivShare yang isinya mereka menerapkan kebijakan baru, setiap free user dibatasi kapasitas storage-nya menjadi 5GB… too bad… Awalnya divshare menjanjikan 25GB setiap free user, tapi dengan alasan yang sangat klasik bahwa dalam kenyataannya tidak semua user mencapai batas maksimal tersebut, sehingga saat ini DivShare hanya memberikan 5GB untuk free user.

Basically penurunan ini gak terlalu bermasalah buat gua, karena gua termasuk user yang gak mencapai batas maksimal 25GB
Tapi rada kecewa aja sih, soalnya kan expektasi awal waktu pertama kali sign-up dijanjiin 25GB. Mudah-mudahan aja gak ada lagi kebijakan lain yang bisa bikin user kabur dari divshare … hehhee …

Service-nya DivShare dalam hal free online storage sebenernya udah sangat baik. File yang kita upload ke server divshare dijamin selamanya nongkrong di server mereka, dan gak akan pernah dihapus. Walaupun sebenernya banyak service free online storage terpercaya lain, seperti Mediafire, MediaMax, dll.

Berikut kutipan e-mail dari divshare tentang pengumuman penurunan kapasitas untuk tiap free user, berlaku per 24 Januari 2008.

Thanks for being a part of DivShare. This week, we’ll be announcing a number of changes and new features that will help make DivShare a faster, more reliable home for your documents and media. You may already have noticed faster uploads and downloads over the past few days, and that’s just beginning of our upgrades. As part of this effort, we are also changing the storage and bandwidth allowances on member accounts.

Starting January 24, free accounts will receive 5 GB of storage space and 50 GB of downloads per month. Premium users will be able to upgrade to up to 10 times that amount for less than a dollar a day. This change won’t affect any files that are currently in your account. If you are over the 5 GB limit, no files will be deleted or disabled. However, you won’t be able to upload new files unless you free up space in your account.

We’ve carefully set up our new accounts so that very few users will be affected — in fact, 99% of members are under the free storage limit, and 90% are under the bandwidth limit. If you do need to upgrade, however, you’ll automatically get a free month of whichever plan you choose. You can check out the options at www.divshare.com/members/upgrade.