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  • peterjustinyu 7:19 am on April 16, 2013 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: business email backup, email archiving, , email management, email migration, enterprise email backup, google apps backup, mail backup, outlook backup, SME email backup, website backup   

    Dropmysite – improved inside and outside to better backup your website 

    Dropmysite 2.0 explained in a short video http://bit.ly/17h6nQd

    Safeguard your cloud

    For immediate release, Singapore, April 16th 2013 – Dropmysite, the simple and elegant website/database backup solution in the cloud, has released major improvements to its functions and looks. Users of the service will now be able to keep their data safer at a cheaper rate and find it easier to manage.

    In recent months, major reseller and partnership deals were signed with GMO Cloud and Xpress Hosting to bring backup services into Japan and Latin America respectively. These partners have requested to resell these website backup services to their expansive client lists and hence needing to upgrade Dropmysite match the demand.

    “We expect to backup half a million websites with GMO Cloud and Xpress Hosting over the next 12 months. These deals will make us a profitable company,” says John Fearon, Founder and CEO of Dropmysite.

    With an estimated 6,000 websites hacked and blacklisted daily1 and 63% of website owners being unaware of being compromised2, Dropmysite has gained plaudits the world over for solving a great need in backing up websites. Since launching in August 2011, Dropmysite serves as an insurance against rampant hacking, frequent server failures and sudden website crashing for 45,000 users.

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    Minor additions have been added along the way which have created quite a buzz in the webmaster and developer communities. As each update is added, the service started to see more signups. With this major revamp of significant improvements to the Dropmysite, there will be an anticpated surge of interest.

    1st, incremental backups – were implemented to allow more data to be backed up faster with less storage. Previously, the service was slow in making archival copies by backing up the entire website and database.

    2nd, public key authentication – with this addition, Dropmysite is now much more secure for users. This is on top of using military grade encryptions and ciphers to retrieve the information. This ensures websites’ constant protection while it is backed up.

    3rd, full directory browser for advanced searches – Users may now be able to search and find specific files throughout the entire database. They can then make changes or retrieve it as they wish.

    4th, on-demand immediate backups and restorations – This improvement will make users’ lives easier with no delays or limits to the frequency in backups and restorations. Like a time machine, it allows users to retrieve backups like snapshots into the past.

    5th, PostgreSQL support – Dropmysite is now available to the most advanced open source database.

    6th, improved user experience and user interface – the service no longer looks like a basic MVP and is now sleeky to look at while offering a smoother backup journey for users.

    Get the best security for your website

    Using Dropmysite together with Dropmyemail, personal email backup and business email backup solution, users will be able to safeguard their presence in the cloud. The sky is the limit for the company as there is yet to be a worthwhile substitute for the service to over 40 billion websites and 4 billion emaill addresses on the Internet.

    “Besides the current deals in Japan and Mexico, there are many more negotiations in progress for the US, India and Singapore. Backing up the Internet is big business,” says Fearon.

    About Dropmysite

    Dropmysite is a company that backs up the Internet, with a focus on backing up Cloud data, such as websites, emails, chat, social media, and more. The company has developed and launched two websites: http://www.Dropmysite.com

    and http://www.Dropmyemail.com – the latter is a Cloud-to-Cloud backup solution for Emails, a freemium consumer service that lets you backup your emails, contacts, chat and calendars, automatically. It is a simple and secure process that works with almost all platforms, including Yahoo Mail, Hotmail, Gmail, Exchange, Enterprise and more.

    Dropmyemail was launched on 1 March 2012 at DEMO Asia, the leading event for the best and brightest companies to launch to a global audience, and awarded the “DemoGURU” and “Freedom” Award.

    Since then, Dropmysite has been featured on Angels’ Gate (Channel News Asia), Wall Street Journal, VentureBeat, CNBC and more. The company was recently selected amongst the hottest 20 startups in 2013 by Singapore Business Review.

    The new Dropmysite service will offer a 15 day trial before having to sign up for one of the following plans.

    10   GB            $19.99 USD

    30   GB            $49.99 USD

    60   GB            $89.99 USD

    100 GB            $149.99 USD

    Requirements beyond 100 GB can also be arranged.

     

    • Rex 4:33 am on April 17, 2013 Permalink | Reply

      This blog is the only URL that I can access for dropmysite.com . It is the only website I am having problems with at the moment. Are you guys still open for business? I would like to sign up if there is anyway I can reliably connect. I’ll try a proxy server and see what happens.

    • peterjustinyu 2:53 am on April 18, 2013 Permalink | Reply

      Hi Rex, http://www.dropmysite.com is up and running. Do try it again and if there are any further questions, you can contact our sales guys support@dropmysite.com

      Thank you for your interest is backing up your website and database!

      • Rex 3:58 am on April 18, 2013 Permalink | Reply

        Hi Peter, Tks for the fast reply. I can access today no problem. Obviously just a temporary glitch on my end. I worked in Singapore for two years. One of my favorite places! Aloha, Rex .

  • peterjustinyu 4:56 am on April 1, 2013 Permalink | Reply  

    World Backup Day? It should be World Backup Everyday 

    While it is prudent to create a World Backup Day to remind everyone to copy all your data, once a year is not really enough.

    March 31st has been marked as World Backup Day – where proponents of safeguarding the Internet is pleading for people to pledge to backup all their data before April Fools – the day where nothing can be taken at face value.

    Well, April Fools has come and gone without much incident or major hoaxes. Though the occasion serves as a warning that the joke will truly be on you when the proverbial hits the fan and you are not backed up.

    In all seriousness, losing data hosted in the cloud is no laughing matter. The sheer statistics is appalling:

    - More than 60 million computers will fail worldwide in 2013.

    - Only 1 in 4 people back up their information regularly – that’s roughly 45 million times this year where files will be lost forever.

    - Even worse – 113 cell phones are lost or stolen every minute in the United States alone.

    Losing personal data is equivalent to forgetting a cherished memory. Imagine the scene of your child’s first steps / words, your graduation ceremony, wedding, post college road trip and other significant moments in your life that shaped who you are. Now imagine all that gone as you now have nothing to remember it by.

    That is the worry of having your memories digitalized and stored in the cloud. These vivid vignettes of your life may be kept safe from the elements and misplacement but now it is under danger of getting electronically erased entirely. Personal items are priceless and there is no measure of sorrow for those mourning their loss.

    Besides, risking losing a part of yourself due to personal errors, hackers, server failures and other data malfunctions, a business that is struck will be devastated as well. Business owners are often less likely to prioritize web security, including website backup. 

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    According to Forbes, one in four business owners are not fully protected against cyber risks even though 65% of business owners believe that their websites are critical to their businesses.

    Given the fact that 40% of cyber attacks are against companies with fewer than 500 employees, web security and website backups should be a high priority for all small and mid-size businesses.

    Websites, databases and emails are lifelines of modern day businesses. A major company will suffer tremendously is suddenly these were to disappear into thin air. It will be a major embarrassment and perhaps a loss of revenue but they will likely live to fight another day.

    However, small medium businesses and enterprises (SMEs / SMBs) will not have the chance. When a small outfit loses its website, its credibility is shot. When its databases collapses, everything that has been built up (contacts, images, invoices, etc) goes up in a puff of smoke. When business email correspondences are amiss, there will be no way to keep track of and in touch with suppliers or customers. The lifeline of millions of entrepreneurs, their staff and their families depend on common vulnerable technology.

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    Now you know the dangers and importance of data loss, backing up is easy. Once set up, your data should be backing up automatically. You just need to check every once in a while to make sure your backups actually work.

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    According to World Backup Day, there are three main types of backup solutions:

    LOCAL BACKUP

    Every week, copy your most important files onto an external hard drive next to your desk, in your closet, or any other place where you can easily retrieve it.

    You can even use Windows Backup (or Time Machine, if you have a Mac) to do this automatically!

    OFFSITE BACKUP

    Another automatic backup or an external hard drive that’s stashed at another location, such as a bank vault, friend’s house or even in a data center in another state. This protects your backup in case of theft, natural disaster or simple hardware failure.

    CLOUD BACKUP

    Similar to an offsite backup, this automatically website, database, email backup to the Internet. This makes multiple copies of your files at various places around the world, making it hard to lose any of your files. It’s super simple and done instantly – you barely need to do anything!

    However, your backups can be a little bit of a pain to retrieve though (it’s a lot of stuff you have to download!) so having this option in conjunction with one of the above is a good, secure plan.

    Things to backup:

    - Computer

    - Laptop

    - Phone

    - iPod

    - Tablet

    - Other electronic devices

    - Photos and videos on social networks and other online services.

    Ways your devices can fail and lose your data.

    - Theft

    - Hardware failure

    - Natural disaster

    - Obsolete file formats

    - You forgot where you put it

    The key is to make multiple duplicates of your data – have a backup to back up your backup, just in case. The threats to your e-security are constant – the wise thing to do is to know that your data is precarious and backup often (if not daily).

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  • John 12:29 am on March 22, 2013 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: Angelsgate, , , reality tv   

    The insider story of Dropmysite on Angels Gate 

    Angelsgate lift

    A little over a year ago, I was a contestant on Angels Gate, angel investor reality show. I came, I pitched and I was funded. On camera, it may seem like it was a piece of cake but the ride was an arduous one. I believe I became stronger after that experience and I would like to share that adventure in detail.

    1. Pre-Screening

    At the time of receiving the application to be part of the show, I was still working on my 1st tech startup, EatAds – the online marketplace to buy/sell outdoor advertising. I entered on the basis of that business and was quite confident of its success on-air and off-air.

    2. First Elevator Pitch (Up)

    A while later, I was called in to start the first round of filming. By then, I was already on a new venture, Dropmysite. The EatAds website crashed due to a hosting failure and I lost a bunch of data. It was embarrassing to apologize to clients for someone else’s mistake – many of whom never returned. As there wasn’t a suitable remedy in the market, the inspiration struck to build a product to back up websites. This was before pivoting to Dropmyemail, the most comprehensive email backup solution in the cloud.

    I got mic-ed up and I walked into the lift with one of the angels, William Klippgen (Singapore-based Norwegian entrepreneur and technology investor). I had 30 seconds, while the elevator went up, to pitch and if what I said piqued his interest, I get to do a full pitch to all the Angels. As I was talking about backing up websites, Klippgen looked confused and rather upset. He was under the impression that I would be talking about outdoor advertising so he turned me down.

    I walked out of the lift feeling dazed. I was not expecting to be tossed out without getting to layout my business properly. It was a horrifying feeling.

    3. Second Elevator Pitch (Down)

    Following which, there was a short discussion between the producers, Klippgen and me to clarify what was going on. I talked about Dropmysite’s traction – 8,000 signups in 3 months and tying up potential reseller deals with Reliance Telecom in India. Klippgen heard this and said, “Let’s do it again.”

    Though glad to be called back in for a second chance to pitch, I was still nervous as I botched it once before. This time as the lift ascended, I stammered slightly while delivering my speech. On the top floor, Klippgen gives it a moment’s thought and says ok. I’m relieved to be finally making it to the Angels Gate.

    4. Between the Elevator Pitch and The Shoot

    Following this, there was a two-week wait. I constructed the best deck of slides I could and yet I wasn’t 100% sure. I handed it to a trusted friend, Nicholas Gan, to look it through. After numerous tweaks, the slides looked better.

    At this point, Dropmysite’s traction improved to 15,000 signups. While that is great, my bootstrapping funds are running out and I’m having issues paying rent that month. So for me, this pitch is a last toss of the dice for my family’s future.

    5. 1 hour before The Shoot

    One of the Angels, Ken Mandel, came up to me and asked what I will be pitching. He was surprised that I was going to talking about Dropmysite instead of EatAds. He told me someone was just tossed off the show for pitching something different from their initial application. To be rejected based on a technicality would be a nightmare. Hurriedly, I got a new application form and changed out the details.

    6. The Shoot

    It was time to pitch like I’ve never done before. You can see my vintage slide deck here.

    Despite still slipping up slightly, I did the best I could and my gut instinct told me that the show would want to negotiate any deal I offered so I made a decision to increase my demands to 20% stake for $350,000 at a $1,750,000 valuation from original demand of 25% for $200,000.

    Then, it was time for the Angels to discuss and for me to sit on the edge of my seat in the green room. Though the segment aired was around 15 minutes long, the actual filming took around 10 hours to complete. An eternity passed and I was called back into the studio. The Angels said yes to invest and my heart leapt.

    In truth, I understood that as a reality show, the negotiations would be part of the entertainment. So in fact, the offered package was my reserved price for parting with the stake. I earnestly agreed to the deal.

    7. The Aftermath

    After the spotlights have dimmed, it was back to reality. The fund behind the show expressed interest in both EatAds and Dropmysite so we went through a few round of discussion. The final amount I got for both businesses was in fact $365,000.

    I was elated that both my businesses are now funded well enough to grow fast and lean. It was a huge relief that I can continue to put food on the table. In my entrepreneurial escapades, I’ve suffered many setbacks and kept coming back for more. The main takeaway from this roller coaster ride is – never give up. Sticking to your beliefs till the bitter end might actually be quite sweet.

    Now that you know the inside story, see the video of the full episode here and the insider interview here.

    Angelsgate judges

    The judges from the show

     

  • peterjustinyu 6:44 am on March 6, 2013 Permalink | Reply  

    Dropmysite co-brands with Mexican partner to backup Spanish websites and emails 

    Dropmysite has partnered prominent Mexican web hosting company, Xpress Hosting, to “hacer copias de respaldo en la nube” or in other words: co-brand and resell its comprehensive website and email backup solution in Spanish.

    Done deal!

    Dropmysite is tying up this deal to bring in revenues from the burgeoning Spanish-speaking economies around the world. Spanish is the third most popular language used on the Internet with 164 million users in 2011 (Internet World Stats)1. With Dropmysite already available in Spanish, it will be easy for these users to adopt the website and email backup service.

     

    Xpress Hosting, the fastest growing web-hosting company in Mexico, was chosen as the partner in the region due to its large client base and geographical reach. The company will offer Dropmysite’s services to its over 100,000 customers with over 500,000 web domains in countries like Mexico and Argentina.

    Getting into the Spanish cloud

    In addition, Xpress Hosting will market all Dropmysite products like its website back up services throughout South America, Spain and Spanish-speaking regions in the US like Texas and Florida.

     

    “Xpress hosting is a great partner for us in Mexico. The Latin American market is huge and Xpress Hosting’s expertise will be invaluable to us.” says John Fearon, CEO and Founder of Dropmysite.

     

    This co-branding and reselling deal is perfect for Dropmysite and Xpress Hosting. By linking up with a trusted local entity, this will bring the global brand, directly into the Spanish-speaking market.

     

    With an integrated website, email backup product coupled with aggressive marketing, both parties expect the collaboration to be a resounding success.

     

    “Dropmysite is a perfect fit for our customer base, we’re always looking for ways to improve our services to make sure our customers get nothing short of the very best that we can offer and Dropmysite allow us to do just that”, said Julian Flores, CEO of Xpress Hosting”

     

    With significant partners like GMO Cloud in Japan and now Xpress Hosting in Mexico, Dropmysite is rapidly building its presence all around the world.

     

    Dropmysite has worked its product to be localized by being translated to 8 languages and having local offices in the US, Argentina, Japan, India and Singapore.

     

    The Dropmysite team will continue its efforts to find other worthwhile companies to collaborate with. Also, over the next few months, Dropmysite expects to annouce more such deals on its road to profitability.

     

    For this Singaporean startup, this is a small but significant step towards the grand vision to eventually “hacer una copia de respaldo de internet” or backing up the Internet.

     

    About Xpress Hosting

     

    Xpress Hosting is the fastest growing web hosting company in Mexico. The company is founded in 2002, privately held and has around 200 employees.

     

    It offers quality web hosting for small business, dedicated web hosting and web applications for medium and large enterprises. Besides that, there is also the provision of hosting solutions in clusters of High-Availability (HA), load-balanced clusters, domain registration, and search engine optimization.

     

    For more information, visit http://www.xpress.com.mx

     

    About Dropmysite

     

    Dropmysite is a company that backs up the Internet, with a focus on backing up Cloud data, such as websites, emails, chat, social media, and more. The company has developed and launched two websites: http://www.Dropmysite.com

    and http://www.Dropmyemail.com – the latter is a Cloud-to-Cloud backup solution for Emails, a freemium consumer service that lets you backup your emails, contacts, chat and calendars, automatically. It is a simple and secure process that works with almost all platforms, including Yahoo Mail, Hotmail, Gmail, Exchange, Enterprise and more.

     

    Dropmyemail was launched on 1 March 2012 at DEMO Asia, the leading event for the best and brightest companies to launch to a global audience, and awarded the “DemoGURU” and “Freedom” Award.

     

    Since then, Dropmysite has been featured on Angels’ Gate (Channel News Asia), Wall Street Journal, VentureBeat, CNBC and more. The company was selected amongst the hottest 20 startups by Singapore Business Review 2013.

     

    The latest product offer is Dropmyemail Business, which will allow SMB corporate business full control and backup of its email accounts where users can take a 30 day trial before signing up.

     

  • peterjustinyu 6:40 am on March 6, 2013 Permalink | Reply  

    5 biggest website hacks in recent history 

    It seems every other day, you hear of a prominent website getting hacked. Many times, government or big corporate websites get hacked for political protest. Other times, hackers do it just for the fun of it. Besides these “noble” pursuits, hackers also hack websites for malicious intent to steal data and personal information.

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    Here are 5 biggest / most prominent hacks:

    1. In 1990 teenager Kevin Poulsen hacked the phone lines of the Kiss FM radio station in Los Angeles to become the 102nd winning caller on the station’s “Win a Porsche By Friday” contest. He also allegedly used his hacking skills to wiretap a Hollywood actress and hack into Army and FBI computers. He was eventually charged by the FBI with a series of fraud and laundering offences and was sentenced to 51 months in prison. Today he works as a journalist for Wired.com.

    2. Jonathan James is one of the most famous hackers of all time. In 1999, he broke into military computers at the Defense Threat Reduction Agency and intercepted thousands of confidential messages, log-in information, and $1.7 million worth of software that controlled the living environment on the International Space Station. The breach led NASA to shutdown their network for three weeks, costing thousands of dollars in security upgrades. His story has a tragic twist. In 2007 he committed suicide.

    3. In 2000 a teenage boy carried out the first major distributed-denial of service attack (DDoS) responsible for crippling some of the internet’s most popular websites. Canadian Michael Calce, 15, made a name for himself with Project Rivolta which took down the website of the £1 search engine at the time – and second-most popular website – Yahoo. He went on to attack the servers of CNN, eBay, Dell, and Amazon. He was ultimately arrested and spent eight months in a juvenile detention centre.

    4. Before he became famous for being the hacker that Bradley Manning confessed to over his role in the Wikileaks cables affair, Adrian Lamo was better known for hacking into the servers of companies like the New York Times. Known as “the homeless hacker”, he accessed the New York Times database in 2002, adding himself to the list of Op-Ed writers and spending hours trawling Lexis-Nexis for mentions of himself. He was sentenced to two years probation and ordered to pay $65,000.

    5. In 2008 the group Anonymous gained worldwide press for Project Chanology, an online protest against the Church of Scientology. Accusing the church of internet censorship, after it launched a copyright violation claim against YouTube over a leaked video of Tom Cruise, Anonymous members of Project Chanology organised a series of denial-of-service attacks against Scientology websites, prank calls, and black faxes to Scientology centres. The group later posted a video on YouTube entitled “Message to Scientology,” and a press release declaring a “War on Scientology”. In the press release, the group states that the attacks against the Church of Scientology will continue in order to protect the right to freedom of speech, and end what they believe to be the financial exploitation of church members.

    There are many ways for your site to be hacked

    1. Outdated web application:  All of the popular scripts (Joomla, wordpress, drupal, phpbb, etc) have security holes, thus they release regular updates and security fixes. You should make sure that you are always using the recent versions of the scripts.
    2. Outdated extensions (themes, plugins, modules, etc.): the same as the above make sure you using the latest stable versions of your themes, plugins, modules, etc.
    3. Weak passwords: The natures of the passwords are to protect some areas of your web sites, control panels, servers, etc. Thus ensure that your passwords contain minimum 10 symbols which are with letters, numbers and special characters.
    4. Virus or the malicious software on the local computer:  Some viruses, worms, steal your passwords and grand the unauthorized access to your web sites. Also some of them might inject malicious code in your web site after they have your FTP login details.

    Don’t be one of those who end up in the news or worse be like 63% of people who don’t even know they have been hacked. While you can’t prevent hacking entirely, you can surely ensure its continuity in website backup, email back up and database backup.

    If you know any other famous website getting hacked, do add them in the comments.

     

  • peterjustinyu 6:50 am on February 15, 2013 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: backup, crash, hacking outages, internet, web, website   

    Your website will crash, are you prepared? 

    Due to the ever-increasing vulnerabilities of the Internet, your website is guaranteed to crash – the only question is when.

     

    “I think that all services will have downtime,” WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg wrote in an e-mail to CNN. “No matter how much you prepare, have redundant systems, or audit, there will periodically be a black swan event that is completely unlike whatever you’ve experienced before. It even happens to Google! In these moments of crisis, the key is how the service and the people behind it respond.”

     

    While there are millions of technical reasons for a website to crash, here are the top 2 external reasons that are beyond your control.

     

    1. Hacking

    Cyberattacks are imminent or already happening

    Every day, it is estimated that 6,000 websites gets hacked and blacklisted by Google and other search engines. Once blacklisted, all modern browsers like Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari will block access to the site. This leads to drop in visitors, sales and destroys the reputation of the site.

     

    Malicious hackers and automated bots infect websites with malicious computer code (i.e., web malware). Hacked websites is used to launch spam and phishing campaigns. For example, a compromised site might try to convince Internet users to visit a fake banking page, buy pharmaceuticals, or something similar. Hacked websites also suffer DDoS attacks (Denial of Service) where the site is unavailable where existing data can be deleted.

     

    In fact, according to CommTouch’s “Compromised Website – An Owners Perspective”- 63 percent of website owners don’t even know how they were hacked.

     

    How was your site compromised?

     

    Realistically, hacking can never be prevented. This is because every week a new vulnerability is discovered in software powering websites. Even if your website is managed by a team of security experts, your website will always be vulnerable.

     

    2. Web outages

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    In the era of cloud computing, web outages are common occurrences where websites shuts off unexpectedly and at times inexplicably. Most outages are brief inconveniences while others are extended periods of disruption. In 2012, notable prolonged outages happened at Google, GoDaddy, during Hurricane Sandy and more. The worst of the lot was Amazon Web Services where 3 separate outages shut down popular programs (i.e. Instagram, Nexflix and Pinterest) to millions of users.

    Twittersphere complaints on AWS outage

    Fully preventing outages isn’t possible, if your site is primarily used for lead generation, it’s probably not a disaster if it goes down for a few hours or even a day. But if you’re conducting business transactions from your site, a couple hours of downtime could cost thousands of dollars in lost revenue or customers, not including the time and money spent to restore the site.

     

    Preparing for and dealing with website crashes

    Panic Time!

    With proper planning and careful selection of technology and hosting partners, a small business can protect itself against unnecessary downtime and be able to quickly restore service.

     

    While prevention is impossible, a remedy is website backup. Experts advise backing up your entire website on your own, on top of what the hosting company is doing. Performing a regular (daily) backup of all systems that your website accesses is a basic requirement.

     

    Dropmysite is the most comprehensive website, email and database backup solution in the cloud. It is free to signup and start a 30 day trial where it will automatically back up your website daily.

     

    Here’s an infograph of the real website hacking situation to show the severity of this epidemic – protect yourself from the inevitable by backing up:

     

  • peterjustinyu 8:14 am on July 3, 2012 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: , , secure email backup   

    Is your email going to go on and on and on and on…? 

    We have moved - Is your email going to go on and on and on and on…? 

     

  • peterjustinyu 5:56 am on June 28, 2012 Permalink | Reply
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    Dropmysite acquires OrbitFiles to increase user base closer to critical mass of 1 million 

    Dropmysite just inked the deal to complete the acquisition of OrbitFiles.com, a cloud backup and sharing solution website. With this purchase, Dropmysite adds a database of 235,000 signups and the wealth of their experience to its existing 676,000 users.

    Dropmysite, the most comprehensive email backup, website and database backup solution in the cloud owns Dropmysite.com, Dropmyemail.com, and now OrbitFiles.com. OrbitFiles.com is an US-based website that has been performing cloud backup for almost 6 years. It will be absorbed into Dropmysite, for an undisclosed sum, to further improve its existing products and enlarge its user base.

    “This acquisition will allow us to leapfrog forward in our product roadmap,” beamed Vinoaj Vijeyakumaar, Head of Product Development at Dropmysite.

    This move to add more users to the service will also allow the development team to survey experienced backup users to hone existing backup products and to perfect future ones that are in the pipeline.

    “Our current growth is based mostly on first time backup users. With OrbitFiles’ established domain and huge user database, we will gain credibility and seasoned backup users, ”says Vijeyakumaar.

    He goes on to say, “The feedback on user experience and user interface that we will gain will be invaluable as we proceed to build our next products.”

    By incorporating OrbitFiles.com, Dropmysite will not only continue but also improve on what made OrbitFiles.com successful in the first place. OrbitFiles.com’s users were promised easy and simple backup functions that they are accustomed to by downloading different backup programs. Dropmysite will be able to seamlessly replace that with its 2-click backup process, but without an additional program to download.

    Also, the purchase of a US-based website will improve visibility for Dropmysite in North America. Over the next few weeks, Dropmysite aims to convert the majority of OrbitFiles.com’s signups over to users. Previously, the biggest market for Dropmysite has been Asia (largely due to India and Indonesia) followed by South America. As a large proportion of OrbitFiles.com’s signups are in the US and Canada, who are now to be added to Dropmysite, North America will likely becomes its 2nd biggest market.

    N.America will soon become a major part of Dropmysite/Dropmyemail

    The other benefit for snapping up OrbitFiles was to divert its site traffic to Dropmysite. In the recent past, OrbitFiles.com received glowing reviews from Lifehacker.com, Gizmodo and Downloadsquad.com. This good press allowed the word to spread and it grew rapidly to its current size. At one point, OrbitFiles.com was even in discussions to be bought out by Google. The domain, http://www.orbitfiles.com, will now be directed to http://www.dropmyemail.com.

    In the grand scheme of things, Dropmysite is signaling its intent to expand further in the cloud backup space with this acquisition. Currently backing up 170 million emails daily (especially in back up Yahoo & backup Hotmail) or 18TBs of memory and counting, it would be imminent that the 1 million-user threshold will be crossed. This will establish Dropmysite’s desire to backup the Internet not just as a lofty goal to be achieved but also as a guarantee for the future.

     

  • peterjustinyu 8:18 am on June 21, 2012 Permalink | Reply
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    Emails’ Murphy Law doesn’t always need to be feared 

    We have moved - Emails’ Murphy Law doesn’t always need to be feared.

     

  • peterjustinyu 6:46 am on June 19, 2012 Permalink | Reply
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    5 ways to achieve complete email cloud security 

    We have moved - 5 ways to achieve complete email cloud security

     

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