Mega has launched • Hacker News Board

Re: Mega has launched

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Post by Kudos » Sat, Jan 19, 2013, 6:19 PM UTC

They're not caching any of their static resources, that might explain the amount of bandwidth use Dotcom is apparently seeing.

Edit: They're not gzipping any of the 2.5MB in static resources either. I realise that probably doesn't impact their API calls that are failing, but it's still a big oversight.

Re: Mega has launched

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Post by rikacomet » Sat, Jan 19, 2013, 6:19 PM UTC

The site is down for me, earlier, access was denied, to control the extra traffic.

Re: Mega has launched

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Post by alexqgb » Sat, Jan 19, 2013, 6:22 PM UTC

The clean interface makes the tagline (lifted from Daft Punk w/o credit) that much more conspicuous. Clearly, some things haven't changed.

Re: Mega has launched

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Post by Kudos » Sat, Jan 19, 2013, 6:27 PM UTC

schmrz wrote: post #5

thehodge wrote: post #3

Just signed up; was quick, smooth and has a nice interface.. was expecting it to get tonnes of visitors and be down for the next few hours but either noone is there yet or they've been very prepared EDIT: Spoke too soon

Not really sure about the quick part. I'm still trying to get to the website. The loading animation on start up was incredibly slow and now the site isn't responding at all. Edit: I'm trying to access it from EU if that makes any difference. Seems like http 500 error is returned for assets hosted on eu.static.mega.co.nz.

They load everything from *.eu.mega.co.nz for me, so presumably everything is fairly close to you.

Re: Mega has launched

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Post by jtchang » Sat, Jan 19, 2013, 6:29 PM UTC

Regardless of what you may think about KimDotCom he certainly has persistence. You'd think anyone would quit after a FBI raid and being sued into oblivion.

So what if the service falls flat? I don't really plan to use it until the kinks are hammered out anyway. The fact that he got it out there though is a statement on to itself.

Re: Mega has launched

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Post by prezjordan » Sat, Jan 19, 2013, 6:30 PM UTC

alexqgb wrote: post #13

The clean interface makes the tagline (lifted from Daft Punk w/o credit) that much more conspicuous. Clearly, some things haven't changed.

I do not believe Daft Punk has exclusive rights to /\w+er\.? better\.? faster\.? stronger/, but I could be wrong.

Re: Mega has launched

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Post by d0m » Sat, Jan 19, 2013, 6:32 PM UTC

The interface is very slick.. almost feel like a native application. Just the fact of being able to resize the various section of the window is very cool. Congrats for the launch, this takes lot of guts to start a service like that.

Re: Mega has launched

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Post by eps » Sat, Jan 19, 2013, 6:32 PM UTC

hahla wrote: post #8

Site is getting completely hammered as of 15 minutes ago, Kim posted this on his twitter ( https://twitter.com/KimDotcom ): "Wow. I have never seen anything like this. From 0 to 10 Gigabit bandwidth utilization within 10 minutes."

I wonder if all this traffic is genuine or if it's a DDoS.

Re: Mega has launched

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Jan 19, 2013, 6:32 PM UTC

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Re: Mega has launched

#20

Post by Lisa2000 » Sat, Jan 19, 2013, 6:33 PM UTC

The site claims safer but it doesn't feel safer. The first click opens my files for me to select one to upload, yet why am I going to upload a file to a completely unknown entity? Who is/are Mega? What gives user confidence to entrust (confidential / personal / business) file uploads to Mega? There are a few steps missing here, I would work on building customer confidence. Unless you are aiming for uploads within a network of people who know and trust you for other reasons. Good luck.