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We used the membership features briefly, fairly recently, on a new server with unconstrained bandwidth (see our post about numbers through the roof). The purpose of the additional membership features is actually to provide some income "by selling packages" to different users ... packages that you can either design or use the included templates, to provide pricing, allotted bandwidth, server space, whatever. Didn't you notice all of that stuff from the admin panel, and if you did, why didn't you just play around with it in order to find out more ... or get more answers here, by people who actually provide some USEFUL dialogue instead of just complaints, put-downs, and irrelevant garbage that is of no use to anyone? I couldn't help but notice that most of your posts (read dozens of them) have absolutely nothing constructive in them although that's actually the purpose of a user forum, to help others and be constructive.

Anyway, the more we used the packages (4 week cycle altogether) the more problems we had with bandwidth issues and server space. I know that vShare won't acknowledge this, but I'm convinced that there has to be a bug in the membership packages somewhere ... especially since the admin mentioned in another post that such problems may not exist if the bandwidth was set to unlimited. That obviously won't do any good for anyone who needs to be attentive to their own bandwidth limitations ... since even some server co-location facilities have those.

You speculated on videoswiper issues in another post ... but I beg to differ there since our server has much more security built-in than most smaller private servers. We have zero problems with spam in forums, the video portal, our gaming section, or anywhere else for that matter since we implement automatic timeouts, firewalls, password screening, captchas, moderate greylisting, a little blacklisting, and anything else to keep things as safe as possible. No, I'm convinced that there's some kind of bug whereby bandwidth usage is somehow being misinterpreted ... which would explain sudden notices of excessive usage, even for new membership accounts that have had no uploads at all. As soon as we disabled the packages altogether, the problems went away. We need to use a site like videoswiper since that's the only legal way to obtain playing clips in german that are available to the general public.
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