[NoFile]

It's a difficult question to answer exactly how long a file would be kept as the deletion is based on two factors:

- How active the file is (e.g if the file isn't downloaded in X days).

- How much space that's available on the storage servers.

As mentioned in a previous comment, the site's operating on small margins so the majority of the income will go to expanding the storage in order to make sure that your file is never deleted (unless you request).

At the current rate your file would never be deleted (again, unless you request it) and at a bare minimum your file will be stored for at least a week without downloads so you don't have to worry about your file being deleted before your downloaders get to it.

This will be updated in the FAQ section to avoid confusion as well, thanks for pointing it out.

[daemonk]

I understand there is a technical aspect of how long you keep the files. But the end users probably don't really care. When I use a service like this to transfer a file to someone else, I would like to be able to write a message to the other person saying, "please download this file in X days".

[rsync]

What storage back-end do you use ? I assume S3 but am genuinely curious ...