Are you fed of storing your important documents and files in memory cards, pendrive or any other additional storage materials. If so then today I will be showing you guys about a very useful and reliable source of storing files and documents and also helps to share it with our friends circles, families and relatives. Now lets directly discuss about that service.
Dropbox is a good and reliable service that helps in the storage of files and folders and share it with the relatives and friends. The storage is also available as in the form of cloud storage. The dropbox service is provided by American dropbox, inc. It was first time founded by Drew Houston and Alas ferdowsi who were the former student of MIT. It was launched in the year 2007. Since then it has been providing its hosting service around the world. At first it was launched on a small service slowly and gradually it became bigger and began to expand.
Basically it works on the principle as first it creates a folder in the synthesized dropbox hosting site and then it connects that server for the folder to all the computers who sign up to their hosting site. In the basic package the users can store up to 2 GB of data and in the premium basis they are given up to 1 tera byte of storage. It offers its service in all operating systems including windows, android, Mac, iOS and many others. According to a census of 2016 it has more than 500 million users who are using this service. Due to the open facility and some debugs it has faced many errors during the initial stage in addition of security preaching and leakage of the privacy. By now all the problem has been fixed and it is now it is one of the important hosting services in the world.
It is very easy to use its services simply one have to go to its official website and sign up with the email id and name. After then a folder is need to be create and in that folder all the basic things are need to be uploaded and finally a basic or premium package is need to be selected according to our choice and we can easily upload and download any files by simply log in. It is one of the most valuated start up company in all over USA with an estimated valuation of 10 billion dollar.
Hence this are the benefits and the working principles of the dropbox.