ADrive Update Blog

Some Free Accounts are in Maintenance

2010-09-10T18:18:00.000-07:00

Dear ADrive Users,

Some Free Accounts are in Maintenance Mode as of 17:30 Pacific Friday September 10, 2010. Those affected users will not be able to log in for several hours while we perform hardware maintenance on a particluar Free User Storage System (one of the many).

Please note that all Paid Users (Signature, Premium, Enterprise) are online and are not affected by this maintenance.

For those curious minds, we use separate storage system technology for Free and Paid User accounts.

Free Users are stored on low-cost (cheap) custom in-house built open source storage systems. We use RAID-6 protection, but aside from that, there is no backup, no clustering, no off-site mirroring. If a motherboard kicks the bucket, or a backplane goes, your data is going offline until we fix it.

On the other hand, all of our Paid Users (Signature, Premium, Enterprise) are stored on enterprise-class clustered storage systems with RAID, snapshot and off-site geographic mirroring (out of state to a separate datacenter). We have redundancies at every layer of the storage system to keep your data online.

As the saying goes, you get what you pay for!

Thank you!
ADrive Team

Maintenance has been completed

2009-07-11T22:12:00.000-07:00

Maintenance has been completed. This release corrects browser compatibility issues, improves the layout of the File Manager, adds a new Flash tutorial, extends the public file expiration for free users to 30 days, and improves site functionality. Please visit the forum for more details.
Thanks for your patience.

Thanks,
-ADrive Team

ADrive Scheduled Maintenance – July 11, 2009

2009-07-10T17:43:00.000-07:00

ADrive will be in maintenance mode starting at 10 PM PST on Saturday, July 11. During this time, you will see a maintenance page instead of the ADrive homepage. Any data already stored within ADrive will not be affected by this maintenance period. As soon as the upgrade is completed, you will regain access to our site.

Thanks for your patience.

Thanks,
-ADrive Team

FTP Timestamp Support is Here!

2009-05-16T22:35:00.000-07:00

ADrive users asked for timestamp support for FTP and we've delivered! MFMT and MDMT timestamp support for FTP is now available for use with programs like SuperFlexible File Synchronizer, GoodSync and SyncBack Pro. Thanks for your input!

Thanks, -
ADrive Team

ADrive Scheduled Maintenance – May 16, 2009

2009-05-16T18:19:00.000-07:00

ADrive will be in maintenance mode starting at 10 PM PST on Saturday, May 25. During this time, you will see a maintenance page instead of the ADrive homepage. Any data already stored within ADrive will not be effected by this maintenance period. As soon as the upgrade is completed, you will regain access to our site.

During this maintenance window, we are correcting a few compatibility issues with Internet Explorer 8 and adding MFMT and MDMT timestamp support for FTP. Thanks for your patience.

Thanks,

-ADrive Team

ADrive Scheduled Maintenance – April 25, 2009

2009-04-21T16:49:00.000-07:00

ADrive Scheduled Maintenance – April 25, 2009

ADrive will be in maintenance mode starting at 10 PM PST on Saturday, April 25. During this time, you will see a maintenance page instead of the ADrive homepage. Any data already stored within ADrive will not be effected by this maintenance period. As soon as the upgrade is completed, you will regain access to our site.

During this maintenance window, we are making upgrades to WebDAV, correcting a few compatibility issues, and adding a Forum for our users. Thanks for your patience.

Thanks,
-ADrive Team

ADrive Scheduled Maintenance – Mar. 7, 2009

2009-03-06T16:27:00.000-08:00

ADrive will be in maintenance mode starting at 10 PM PST on Saturday, March 7. You will see a maintenance page instead of the ADrive homepage. Any data already stored within ADrive will not be effected by this maintenance period. As soon as the upgrade is completed, you will regain access to our site.

During this maintenance window, we are upgrading our site to add more PayPal features, correct a few compatibility issues, and provide better customer service for our users. Thanks for your patience.

Thanks,
-ADrive Team

New ADrive Desktop Makes Backup Easy

2009-02-06T06:38:00.000-08:00

ADrive Desktop officially launched! ADrive Desktop is a desktop application that is compatible with all major operating systems. ADrive Desktop allows a customer to upload, download, and schedule jobs to backup files/folders from their computer to their ADrive account. This feature gives users access to their ADrive account directly from their desktop. ADrive Desktop is available to our Signature and Premium customers and ADrive is offering a FREE 14-Day trial to Basic account holders and new users.

Please note that the ADrive Backup Client will no longer be supported in favor of ADrive Desktop. We thank our basic account holders and beta users for testing the ADrive Backup Client and invite them to try ADrive Desktop and our Signature and Premium services today.

Thanks,
-Adrive Team

Changes in Service to Basic Accounts

2009-02-04T06:40:00.000-08:00

ADrive wants to inform its Basic account holders of service changes that relate to free services. These changes will improve speed and service for our Signature, Premium and Enterprise level customers and free Basic users alike. The following changes have been implemented or will be implemented on the dates listed below:

Concurrent Downloads Limited - The purpose of reducing the amount of concurrent downloads to Basic user's public files is to attempt to reduce the amount of bandwidth consumed by free public file sharing. Basic users can still share files, but only 5 downloads of a single file can be done at the same time. This is currently in place, as of our last release.

1 TB File Sharing Limit - After serving several exabytes of public file data over the lifetime of our service, we have decided that the cost for hosting files at its current level of service is not scalable to the costs associated with it. Instead of shutting off the public file service for Basic users completely, we have decided to attempt to reduce the amount of traffic by imposing a 1 TB File Sharing Bandwidth Limit. This will effect very few users by our calculations. This change will take place on February 28, 2009.

Public File Expiration – Public files shared by our free users will expire 14 days after they were originally shared. You will be able to re-share these files, although the links will change. Once again, we are trying to improve service for our customers and Basic users alike. This will be put into effect on February 28, 2009.

Please send any feedback regarding these changes to feedback@adrive.com.

We thank you for using ADrive and invite you to try a FREE 14-Day Trial of our Signature and Premium services. None of these changes effect Signature, Premium, or Enterprise level customers.

Thanks,
-ADrive team

FREE 14-day Trial Accounts

2008-11-23T01:17:00.000-08:00

ADrive now has free trial accounts! Enjoy all the benefits of a Signature or Premium account for 14 days. During the trial period, you will have access to our new ADrive Desktop, WebDAV, SSL encrypted data transfers, File History, and no 3rd party advertisements.

The FREE 14-day trial is a perfect way to take ADrive for a test run.

Thanks,
-ADrive Team

ADrive Scheduled Maintenance – Nov 22, 2008

2008-11-20T07:35:00.000-08:00

On Saturday, November 22nd, ADrive will be in maintenance mode starting at 10 PM PST. You will see a maintenance page instead of the ADrive homepage. Any data already stored within ADrive will not be affected by this maintenance period. As soon as the upgrade is completed, you will regain access to our site.

During this maintenance window, we are adding the new ADrive Desktop and free 14-day trial of Signature and Premium accounts

Thanks,
-ADrive Team

Welcome!

2008-10-23T18:10:00.000-07:00

Welcome to the new ADrive Blog! Please read all about ADrive here or visit our website for more information (www.adrive.com/community). We will use this blog to update our user community about ADrive events.

Feel free to add your comments. We will monitor the activity of this blog to stay current with our user community.

Thanks,
-ADrive Team

ADrive Scheduled Maintenance – October 25, 2008

2008-10-23T18:08:00.000-07:00

On Saturday, October 25th, ADrive will be in maintenance mode starting at 10 PM PDT. You will see a maintenance page instead of the ADrive homepage. Any data already stored within ADrive will not be affected by this maintenance period. As soon as the upgrade is completed, you will regain access to our site.

During this maintenance window, we are upgrading our systems in preparation for the release of our new Desktop Backup Client, adding new Enterprise Solutions, a new ADrive Blog and making several changes based on users’ feedback.

Thanks,
-ADrive Team