Dropmyemail

Dropmyemail
Developer(s) Dropmysite Pte. Ltd.
Initial release March 2012
Development status Active
Written in Ruby on Rails
Available in English,
Chinese Simplified,
Chinese ,
Japanese,
Korean
Thai
Bahasa
Type Online backup service
Website www.dropmyemail.com

Dropmyemail is a cloud based email backup software offered by Dropmysite[1] that offers cloud storage and Online backup software. In brief, Dropmyemail allows users to automatically backup their emails to the cloud with an option to view, migrate or restore[2] them whenever required via a web browser.

Dropmyemail was shown on 1 March 2012 at Demo Asia[3] by Dropmysite.

History

According to Dropmyemail, founder John Fearon conceived the idea of Dropmyemail after "his clients emailed him asking for a solution to backup emails and database". That's when he wanted to build Dropmyemail and realised "this as a big opportunity".[4] The team then worked on the problem and launched Dropmyemail.com on 1 March 2012 at Demo Asia,[3] a launchpad for emerging technology in Singapore.

As of April 2012, Dropmyemail had more than 525,000 users, growing at a rate faster than Twitter, Dropbox and Pininterest at the same time during their launch.[5][6]

Business model

Dropmyemail moved away from a Freemium[7][8] business model to a Free Trial[9] based business model.

Dropmyemail changed their business model to provide a 15 day free trial followed by a paid account for $10 per year for a 5GB account, $20 for 10GB account and $70 for a 50GB account.[10]

On November 21, 2012,[11] Dropmyemail launched its business offering[12] for SoHO and SMB with a per email mailbox price plans. They provide a 15 day free trial for 100 seats followed by a paid account for 5 seats at $99.99 per year, 20 seats at $299.99 per year and 100 seats at $999.90 per year.[13]

The company launched its affiliate program[14] on December 13, 2012 to meet the demands of various websites to resell Dropmyemail's service.[15]

Technology

Dropmyemail is a web based solution.[16] Dropmyemail's backed is written in Ruby on Rails[17] and is hosted on the Amazon Web Services Cloud Infrastructure. Most of the email platforms such as Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo etc. are supported by Dropmyemail. Users can also backup their email via IMAP or POP settings.[18]

Dropmyemail uses Amazon's S3 storage system to store the files;[19]

Notable competitors

References

  1. ↑ "Backup specialist Dropmysite buys Orbitfiles, boosting its userbase and focus on North America". The Next Web.
  2. ↑ "Dropmyemail Features". Dropmyemail. Retrieved August 21, 2012.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Dropmysite| Demo Asia". Retrieved August 21, 2012.
  4. ↑ "AWS Lean Cloud - Join the Startup Revolution| Featured Startups". Retrieved August 21, 2012.
  5. ↑ Balakrishnan, Kumes (April 23, 2012). "DropMyEmail.com growing faster than Dropbox, Fab.com, Pinterest and Twitter". e27. Retrieved August 21, 2012.
  6. ↑ "Dropmyemail Passes Half Million Users, is Working on Second Round of Funding". TechinAsia.
  7. ↑ "Singapore Start-Up Cashes In on Saving Emails". Wall Street Journal Blog.
  8. ↑ Teoh, Michael (August 13, 2012). "Dropmyemail's Rise of Asian Start-Ups Opening Offices in North America". Retrieved August 21, 2012. 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.
  9. ↑ "Dropmyemail is now giving 50GB email backup free trial". Dropmyemail Blog.
  10. ↑ Johnson, Dave (November 13, 2012). "Securely back up your email with Dropmyemail". CBS News. Retrieved November 13, 2012. he basic service includes 5GB of email backup for $10 per year; you can choose from other plans, such as 10GB for $20 per year or 50GB for $70 per year. You can try Dropmyemail for free for 15 days without handing over a credit card.
  11. ↑ Lee, Terrence (November 21, 2012). "Dropmyemail Business launched; backs up corporate emails". Retrieved December 5, 2012.
  12. ↑ "Dropmyemail enterprise email backup". Dropmyemail. Retrieved December 4, 2012.
  13. ↑ "Dropmyemail enterprise Pricing". Dropmyemail. Retrieved December 4, 2012.
  14. ↑ "Welcome to the Dropmyemail Affiliate Program". Dropmyemail. Retrieved December 26, 2012.
  15. ↑ Yu, Peter (December 13, 2012). "Partner up with Dropmyemail through affiliate marketing". Retrieved December 26, 2012. The development is brought by the heavy demand of various websites to resell Dropmyemail’s services
  16. ↑ Zukerman, Erez (November 5, 2012). "Dropmyemail backs up your email effortlessly". Retrieved November 14, 2012. Dropmyemail is Web-based, so there's nothing to download.
  17. ↑ Raj, Chandan (May 3, 2012). "Dropmyemail.com – A Fast Growing Cloud-to-Cloud Email Backup Solution". Retrieved August 21, 2012. We host our services on AWS. Our back-end is built on Ruby on Rails.
  18. ↑ Bharti, Bhaskar (May 16, 2012). "Backup Your Email on DropMyEmail.com". Retrieved August 21, 2012. It supports almost all major email platforms like Gmail, Google App, Hotmail, Yahoo, AOL, etc. Still, you can use IMAP, POP settings if you can't find your email service provider in the list.
  19. ↑ "Where are my emails stored?". Dropmyemail FAQ. Dropmyemail uses Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) to store all your emails.

External links

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