Developer(s) Dessol Ltd/MailBigFile Type Web application | Initial release 2005 Website mailbigfile.com | |
Alexa rank 44,241 (September 2013) | ||
MailBigFile (www.mailbigfile.com) is a web application that allows users to send large files that are too big for email. It has been developed by Dessol (formerly Design Solution), a web development company based in the UK.
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History
MailBigFile was founded in 2005 as a way of emailing large files. Dessol was founded as ‘Design Solution’ in Lowestoft, Suffolk, United Kingdom in 1997. It offers web-development services to a range of clients as well as developing its own web-based applications.
Background
Many internet service providers and web-based email services impose limits on the size of email attachments – Gmail’s limit, for example, is 25MB. MailBigFile offers a way around these constraints, allowing its users to send multiple files up to 4GB each in size. It also represents an alternative to sending large files on physical media such as CD-Rs or DVDs.
Operation
MailBigFile functions by acting as an intermediary between the sender and the recipient. The user uploads their file to the MailBigFile servers via its website and nominates the recipient by entering their email address. The service then sends an email to the recipient of the file including a link that they can use to download the file. MailBigFile is used by subscribers in 118 countries. The site’s Traffic Rank at Alexa is 44,241 (Sept 2013).
Storage uptime performance
MailBigFile has been found to offer superior online storage uptime to many similar services. In a survey carried out by Swedish performance monitoring firm Pingdom in June–August 2007, MailBigFile delivered the best performance out of 16 online file storage services, including MegaUpload, Yousendit and MyTempDir. MailBigFile recorded five minutes of downtime during the survey period, compared to 264 minutes for Yousendit and 3981 minutes for MyTempDir.
Pingdom calculated MailBigFile’s average monthly uptime for the survey period as 99.996%.
Pricing structure
MailBigFile is offered on a freemium basis. It is available in three configurations: Free, Pro and Business.
Media coverage
In March 2006, MailBigFile was selected as ‘Website of the Day’ by Miles Mendoza on Steve Wright’s Radio 2 show.
Reviewing applications for sharing large files, technology website TechCrunch wrote that MailBigFile ‘has the best price for a pro account – $15/year with an impressive list of features’.
Blog
In March 2011, MailBigFile released a blog onto its website as a subdomain. The blog currently features posts on events at MailBigFile, as well as on technology and social affairs. The blog itself is largely contributed to by David Porter, a former Waveney Conservative MP. However, it also features posts written by the MailBigFile staff (usually on MailBigFile related events) as well as some guest publications.
Illegal/Adult content
This site does not permit any illegal activity or obscene material that will instantly be terminated, and his/her account will be suspended immediately without prior notice.
If the customer should violate this policy, MailBigFile will intervene and law enforcement agencies and government authorities will assist, and prosecute for the illegal or obscene content. And those persons that may have inappropriately accessed, acquired, or used the illegal or obscene content.
This site does not permit:
Contains illegal or obscene material, Fosters or promotes illegal activity, Including but not limited to the offering for sale of illegal weapon, Promotion or publication of any material that may violate hate crimes legislation