Glad to see the site is back online, gbmeister; you guys have one clear plus point over the current crop of DDL hosts, which I don't want to state publically, to avoid jinxing it.
The lack of FTP upload functionality is slightly cumbersome for sharers like me that offer up fullsets/collections/packs, but for now remote upload [RU] functionality from an "ftp://user:pass@..." address works just fine.
For folks that are complaining that RU isn't working: it's the progress bar that's the issue, not the actual transfer, which will complete just fine if you just wait it out. It's probably a bug in the script that doesn't properly transmit or receive the data that updates the progress bar to the uploader, and when it times-out, it just gives up - but only the bar not the transfer itself. This is a common occurence, in my experience at the very least, with this particular script; and it's much worse with MegaLoad, for example. Having said that, you should probably look into tweaking it, gbmeister.
For reference, I have clocked remote uploads from a private dedicated server at ~72Mbps|9MB/s.
Another potential pitfall with the script, is how banks of URLs are handled in the event of a transfer error. If I were to paste the current RU limit of 7 URLs, for example, and the first six get uploaded just fine, then if the seventh upload fails the previous six do not generate links or even appear in the share folder. As you can imagine, this is frustrating, when it happens. This could be addressed if each file would simply be saved into the account, and link generation & output done post-transfer completion.
I'd also like to clarify to thread posters that RU isn't/wasn't available to free registered users, even if you can see the button and paste links in the form -- you must be a premium user to utilize it, as stated in the OP. I wasn't able to use it myself until I got a premium account (thanks for that, gbmeister). Granted, it doesn't spit out a helpful error message as to why the upload result form is blank, which is why so many of you thought it was messed up. Probably something else you should fix, gbmeister -- either disable the RU tab, or put a message under it stating its unavailability to free users, or return an error message when it's used.
Finally, please edit and format the thread title and original post's body to properly reflect the current status of the site and the affiliate program. Or expect reflexive posters that don't read a thread in its entirety, to hammer it with silly questions and clarifications.
Best of luck with staying in the DDL game!