Dropbox Issue Situation. (Patreon)
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So i wanted to write a proper long post to explain whats happening with the Dropbox links being broken.
So I revived an email saying that my account has been suspended for Excessive Traffic. So I have never gotten an email like this from Dropbox before so I contacted them and spent time on the phone and in a chat room with them to figure out what happen.
I was told that my account was receiving a lot of streams and downloads over the past few days and since I exceeded my limit of bandwidth my account was suspended.
I took this to mean we have grown so much on Patreon with the inclusion of movies and the reactions my brother does that keeping it to one account is not going to work.
Actually if I never would have open Vimeo the odds are this would have happened sooner because of the amount of people watching.
Because of the size of the files and the amount of files being downloaded and streamed it’s just more than what an account on Dropbox is meant for.
This is what I was told and I guess it makes sense.
I am currently signing up to two more Dropbox accounts to split up the bandwidth for all the shows me and my brother do. I wasn’t aware how much bandwidth was being used to stream and download the videos off of Dropbox. So I will have 3 total accounts that me and my brother will use to spread the shows out so that accounts never exceed the “Excessive Traffic” limit.
It will take me a bit to make sure everything is spread evenly so please bare with us for the next few days while we move some things around and add links to older post.
We will still have stuff coming out but some things will be delayed a bit.
Some of you have said just use Vimeo but the problem is that Vimeo has had issues as well. Different kinds of issues but issues nonetheless.
Some say that I should use GoogleDrive. About a year ago I did use google drive but it also had issues which is why I switched to Dropbox.
What I may look into is maybe opening back up a GoogleDrive account just to have another way for you all to watch the reactions.
I want the best experience possible for everyone and I know the streaming locations work differently for different people. You have all supported me so much that all I want is to do my best to make the experience as smooth as possible.