What are the differences between Tencent Weiyun and RapidShare?

Let us understand the concepts of Tencent Weiyun and Rapidshare before learning the differences between them.

Tencent Weiyun

Weiyun is the cloud storage service from Tencent which is providing a massive 10 TB of free cloud storage for its new customers. It was owned by Tencent Holdings Limited in 2012. It was mostly used by China. It can be available in Chinese and English language.

Tencent Cloud is one of the secure, reliable and high-performance cloud compute services provided by Tencent. It is the largest Internet company in China, and Asia. It is providing services to so many people through its products like QQ and WeChat.

Features

The features of Tencent Weiyun are as follows −

• Easy to Deploy

• Low Cost

• High reliability

• We create a unique QR code for any file or folder that we want to share.

• Weiyun automatically updates any files that you modify.

• The pictures can easily be viewable across the browser, mobile, and desktop clients.

RapidShare

RapidShare is an online file hosting service started in the year 2002 by Christian Schmid and dissolved in the year 2015.

It is an online file storage service that helps to upload multiple files and generate private download links. With the help of the link we can share the content to anyone. Uploading files to Rapidshare is easy just select the file and click the “Upload” button.

We can also use the Flash-based upload manager that allows us to upload up to three files at a time. The size limit for RapidShare files is 500 MB, but we can split up larger archives if necessary.

But the free account has some limitations like files can only be downloaded 10 times and the RapidShare links are erased after 60 days of inactivity. The RapidShare Premium account is much faster. The sign up for RapidShare is free and helps us to manage files in an organized way.

Advantages

The advantages of RapidShare are as follows −

• Easy to use

• It is fast and efficient file storage.

• It has a Flash uploader.

The disadvantage is that there are certain limitations in free accounts.

Differences

The major differences between RapidShare and Tencent Weiyun are as follows −

RapidShare	Tencent Weiyun
RapidShare was launched in the year 2001 by Christian Schmid.	It was owned by Tencent Holding Limited in 2012.
RapidShare offers limited storage for free.	It offers 10TB of free storage.
RapidShare used worldwide.	Tencent Weiyun is used in China.
RapidShare allow maximum size per file is 500 MB.	The maximum file size of Tencent is 1GB.
RapidShare provides file hosting service and online backup service.	Tencent provides cloud storage service and file hosting service.
RapidShare allows us to download files 10 times in a free account.	Tencent files can be downloaded multiple times.
RapidShare service was suspended in year 2015.	Tencent is still in use.
RapidShare offers limited storage space for paid accounts.	The maximum storage capacity of Tencent is 2 TB.
RapidShare band-width limit is based on paid plans.	There is no band-width limit.