It's here: Entrepreneur Kim Dotcom's long-anticipated file-sharing site, Mega, is open to the public.
Dotcom broke the news this morning with this tweet:
As of this minute one year ago #Megaupload was destroyed by the US Government. Welcome to Mega.co.nz— Kim Dotcom (@KimDotcom) January 19, 2013
Mega is a follow-up to the entrepreneur's last endeavor, MegaUpload, which was shut down by the U.S. government one year ago, today. The new service will include mobile access, instant messaging and word-processing -- similar to Dropbox -- as well as hosting, email and domain-name services.
Basic, non-paying users of the site will get 50GB of space to use. Premium users can choose between three tiers of storage: 500GB, 2TB and 4TB, which respectively cost $13.29, $26.59 and $39.90 per month.
Traffic to the site is already overwhelmingly high. Dotcom tweeted an update, less than an hour after its launch, that said registration was flying in at thousands per minute:
Site is extremely busy. Currently thousands of user registrations PER MINUTE.— Kim Dotcom (@KimDotcom) January 19, 2013
Two hours in, he tweeted that the site's server capacity was on maximum load with 250,000 registrations:
250,000 user registrations. Server capacity on maximum load. Should get better when initial frenzy is over. Wow!!!— Kim Dotcom (@KimDotcom) January 19, 2013
You can register for yourself here. (It might take a few attempts; just keep hitting "refresh" if you have trouble.)
Here's a chart, courtesy of Statista, that shows the storage capacity of other free cloud services, compared with Mega.
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