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Orangigina
Explorer | Level 4
1 month ago

"Public links have been temporarily suspended for generating excessive traffic." Please help!

I outsource my work on dropbox (six videos appearing on my portfolio website) and make my content available to a number of individuals that need access to it. I am currently unable to share my links ...
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Mark
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1 month ago

Unfortunately, the only people who can help are Dropbox - but the ban wont be removed I'm afraid. Also, each time you get one it will get longer. 

However, what I would say is that Dropbox isnt intended as a hosting tool (which is why this is in place). By hosting the website etc. you are almost always going to get issues, especially if, as you said, you do lots of viewing of it at times. 

You really need to invest in a proper hosting tool for your website where this wont happen. With Dropbox there is no way around it. 

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