wraggster
January 21st, 2013, 21:41
Kim Dotcom's new "Mega" cloud service (http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/13/01/19/1625221/kim-dotcoms-mega-storage-site-arrives) appears to be a hit. According to Dotcom over 1 million have signed up (http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/01/20/kim-dotcom-officially-launches-the-new-mega-at-an-insane-press-event/) for their free 50 gigabytes of storage. Although that is about 1% of the Dropbox user base (http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2414529,00.asp), it's not a bad start. From the article: "Mega quickly jumped up to around 100,000 users within an hour or so of the site's official launch. A few hours after that, Mega had ballooned up to approximately a quarter of a million users. Demand was great enough to knock Mega offline for a number of users attempting to either connect up or sign up for new accounts, and Mega's availability remains spotty as of this articles' writing."