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Dropmyemail is a cloud based email backup software offered by Dropmysite 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 them whenever required via a web browser.

Dropmyemail was launched on 1 March, 2012 at Demo Asia by Dropmysite, a Singapore based startup company.

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". Thats when he wanted to build Dropmyemail and realised "this as a big opportunity". The team then worked on the problem and launched Dropmyemail.com on 1 March, 2012 at Demo Asia, a launchpad for emerging technology in Singapore.

, Dropmyemail had more than 525,000 users, growing at a rate faster than Twitter, Dropbox and Pininterest at the same time during their launch..

Business model
Dropmyemail uses a Freemium business model, where users are offered a free account with a set storage size and paid subscriptions for accounts with more capacity.

Technology
Dropmyemail's backed is written in Ruby on Rails 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.

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

Notable competitors

 * Mozy
 * Backupify