Dropmysite (now known as Dropsuite) is a Private Limited Company in Singapore that backs up the Internet, with a focus on backing up Cloud data, such as websites, emails, databases and mobile phones. The company owns three websites: Dropmysite.com, Dropmyemail.com, and Dropmymobile.com. Dropmysite has operations in Singapore, Tokyo and Dallas.
Dropmysite and Dropmyemail provide backups using users' login information to their Cloud-based websites and email accounts. It is based on a Free Trial model where users get 10GB storage per website for 30 days and 5GB per email user for 15 days. Dropmysite acquired Orbitfile.com on 27 June 2012 to expand its operations in North America.
Dropmymobile is an app to backup files in a smartphone. It was launched in October 2014 for all Android devices and is available on Google Play Store.
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Corporation
Company History
John Fearon, started Dropmysite in September 2011. Dropmyemail was initially created to satisfy a client's requirement.
Since September 2011, Dropmysite has 40,000 users. Dropmyemail was launched on 1 March. 2012 at DEMO Asia 2012. Dropmyemail currently has over 650,000 users.
Dropmysite has local offices in the US, Singapore, Japan and India.
It has entered into partnership with Xpress Hosting, a web-hosting company in Mexico for getting access to 100,000 customers and 500,000 domains. Dropmysite has also announced partnerships with GMO Cloud and paperboy in Japan.
Management team
The Management team consists of people of different continents including Asia, Africa and North America and Australia.
- Founder - John Fearon
- CTO - Ron Hart
- CEO - Charif El-Ansari
- COO - Ridley Ruth
Investors
Dropmysite is a privately held technology startup that received seed funding for from Crystal Horse Investments, Stanley Street Labs and a few angel investors.
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Technology
The backend of Dropmysite is based on Amazon AWS Infrastructure. The data is stored on Amazon S3 buckets where as the front end is run on Amazon EC2 instances. The entire web application is coded on Ruby.
Dropmysite supports backing of websites via FTP and SFTP protocol. The database backup is only supported for MySQL. The files are encrypted and stored on the servers. Dropmyemail supports IMAP and POP3 for email backup.
References
Source of article : Wikipedia