The word of mouth seems to be working, the number of visitors to Dropbox’s website has increased from 13k in May of last year to around 1.5 million in May of 2010. Dropbox also isn’t spending any money on advertising of any much sort and depends solely on word of mouth to get new clients.
Dropbox isn’t running massive servers to store all this stuff, instead, they’re a client of Amazon’s S3 storage service.
I decided to investigate.ĭropbox is mostly just their little client (they have clients for Mac & PC as well as for some mobile devices). But I was left wondering, why weren’t they nagging me to sign-up for their more expensive paid service? I was perplexed, how exactly is this a business. Dropbox (the paid version) automatically maintains various versions of changed documents and has this “go back” feature which is great as well.ĭropbox has gained immense popularity in 2010 and it’s easy to see why, it works and adds value. The best thing, the basic 2 gigabyte storage versus is free. The little app stays out of the way, never bugs you for anything and I’ve yet to notice any slow down on my machine. There’s also a simple web interface that allows you to download specific files if you’re away from any of ‘your’ computers. Best of all, you can install the application on multiple computers, set it up with your credentials and wham the “My Dropbox” folder is automatically kept in sync across all the computers. But my biggest problem was I had a desktop computer and a laptop as well and I forever leaving one file on another computer or worse copying a file only to forget what revision was the latest.Įnter the a service from Dropbox (Dropbox is a small application that you install that creates a simple folder called “My Dropbox” basically anything you put in there or change, automatically gets updated to the cloud. My problem was simple, I wanted file to back-up automatically, I wanted to be able to quickly get them from a simple web interface.
The services required that I become an IT guy of sorts. There also not very friendly in how you can restore a file. But most of these require you to start some back-up process each day usually at the wrong time, just as you’re starting to do something. There are lots of back-up services available for prices ranging from free to a low cost. But deep below the.Ĭedar WordPress Theme by EckoThemes. Meet is Google's new video collaboration service, the next version of Hangouts but designed for corporations. Meet Google – the new telephone company Posted by Chris Koehncke on
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