MixDepot.net, Music/DJ File Hosting Service, Dead
MixDepot.net, a file-hosting service for DJs and musicians, will soon be no more (thanks, David, for the heads-up!):
Effective May 1, 2007, mixdepot.net will be shutting down. I’ve suspended billing so there won’t be a charge for the final month of service.
Thanks for your support, and I wish you the best of luck in all your DJ pursuits!
In case you haven’t heard of the service, here’s an explanation from the about page:
MixDepot.net was created in early 2005 to solve a problem frequently encountered by electronic music artists and DJs on the Internet. These artists host large files and would like to offer them to as many people as possible. With a traditional web hosting service, they may have plenty of disk space, but eat through their monthly bandwidth allocation within several days. They are then forced to purchase more bandwidth or jump to another host to keep their mixes available.
At MixDepot.net, download bandwidth is unmetered and we only charge our artists for disk space. We also provide automatic BitTorrent support during the first several days when a mix is the most popular to allow the greatest number of people to download the file.
Web services often don’t have the longest shelf life, but it’s still said when things go away. Of course, this brings me to my next question: where you like to host your files?
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Leave a CommentSymbiotic
Though not everyone has had rosy experiences, I’ve been happy with Dreamhost. They offer huge amounts of storage AND bandwidth at excellent prices. Moreover, their new FilesForever feature allows content creators to upload files, where they will be hosted ‘forever’ for a low one-time fee, and they can then sell or share their files with others. Essentially a simple ’shopping cart’ system, without the hassles.
March 27, 2007 @ 12:09 pm
Peter
Pando is great too
http://pando.com/
1gb storage, if the files are popular unlimited retention, fast speeds, and rss podcasting.. rad.
March 27, 2007 @ 12:39 pm
phatplastic
Does anyone know the reason? I smell an RIAA rat…
March 27, 2007 @ 12:51 pm
Nicholas vegas
@phatplastic:
who else !
March 27, 2007 @ 1:02 pm
Jorge Rodriguez
I think that the best option right now is Libsyn, they’ve been around since the Podcast revolution started and currently host some of the most popular Podcasters in the world. They have the same model of charging for storage space and not bandwitdh. I’ve had an account with them since 2005 and no complains, and my Podcast pulls around 120 Gigs of bandwith per month.
March 27, 2007 @ 1:10 pm
Peter Kirn
@phatplastic: The reason could just be waning interest and time. It’s run by one person.
March 27, 2007 @ 1:47 pm
mad wax | vocode project
I’ve never understood the need for sites like this - I use canaca.ca and regularily push 500 gigs of transfer a month with no problem, and only pay about 8-10 dollars a month. its out there, you just need to search for it :)
March 27, 2007 @ 6:56 pm
Peter Kirn
I could see a benefit to a music-specific service, particularly if it came with a player and easy sharing capabilities … other thoughts?
March 27, 2007 @ 7:19 pm
Jorge Rodriguez
I do agree with you Peter. Podcasters and DJs are usually very involved in the specific technology they need for their creative work (Mixers, Microhpones, Ableton, Reason…), but most of them could be intimidated by the challenge of creating an RSS feed, publishing a blog or installing a flash mp3 player. Services like Libsyn, Switchpod or the now defunct MixeDepot are the direct answer to those needs, offering a complete suite for a very low cost monthly feed.
March 27, 2007 @ 8:01 pm
Mateo
Does anyone have the scoop on why they shut down?
March 27, 2007 @ 8:54 pm
Erik_Hz
As a DJ, I have been pretty satisfied with WAXDJ.com. The service is free at 75MB of storage for your mixes, and a paid account will get you 2Gigs of storage for about 7 bucks a month. The cool thing about the service is that they offer the ability to customize a personal website with different HTML themes. The themes are a bit limiting, but easy to set up and change. The service also allows for you to see how your mixes are doing by offering detailed statistics about Downloads, something I use quite often. It’s by no means a perfect service, but with MixDepot gone, it’s the best alternative I know of.
March 29, 2007 @ 4:53 pm
jaimejames
mixdepot isn’t shutting down but andy (founder/owner) was able to someone to take over ownership who could dedicate time maintaining the site.
April 11, 2007 @ 3:16 pm
Rob
I was very satisfied with MixDepot, would like to know if they are really shutting down or not.
If they do, then I’ve been thinking about building my own site from scratch. What would be the best way to go about it?
Let’s assume I’ve written the code and am happy with everything, what essential things do I look out for when finding a host?
Obviously I need…
Quite a large amount of disk-space (1 - 10GB)
People to be able to download my mixes at a reasonable speed
No bandwidth problems
Any suggestions?
April 23, 2007 @ 7:21 am
Mikey
Here’s my answer. Today is May 19th. They were supposed to shut down on May 1st…so…I guess that answers everyone’s questions! :D
May 19, 2007 @ 9:35 am
Alex
Hi, try this service http://www.momupload.com for file hosting
i’ve been using it for a long time and i can say, that it’s best one i have ever used before.
Hope this helps. :)
July 4, 2007 @ 5:40 pm
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