Zippyshare stops due to falling income and rising costs

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File sharing website Zippyshare closes its doors. The service would receive fewer and fewer visitors and therefore less income. Added to this is the increasing number of ad blockers and the increased energy prices, which mean that the developers can no longer keep the service profitable.

Zippyshare ends at the end of March, write the administrators in a blog post. They do not specify a specific date. The makers say they can no longer keep the website running financially.

According to the makers, this is because there are fewer and fewer visitors and users. In recent years, the number of active Zippyshare users has declined, according to the administrators because “the simple service they offer is becoming less and less interesting.” The makers point to alternative cloud storage services that “look better, perform better and have more features.” “No one is waiting for a dinosaur like us anymore.”

Added to that is the problem of ad blockers, which visitors are increasingly using, says Zippyshare. The makers call that a vicious circle; due to declining revenues, they are forced to place more advertisements, which in turn leads to even more ad blockers. Finally, rising energy prices also play a role, making hosting 2.5 times more expensive in the past year. “Given the large number of servers we manage, the costs increased so much that we didn’t see a way to make up for it.”

Users who have files on Zippyshare have ‘about two weeks’ to back them up. The website will remain in the air until then, but can no longer be used after that.

Zippyshare started way back in 2006 and has been one of the most popular cloud storage services for many years. In recent years, Zippyshare has been overtaken in market share and popularity by low-cost alternative hosting providers such as Google Drive, Dropbox, and dozens of others. Zippyshare has barely kept up with the times in terms of UI/UX and new features; the last major change was the addition of SSL to uploads and downloads. That happened in 2018.

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