Sadly, that offer appears to have proven unsustainable for the company: A decade after launch, CrashPlan for Home is now being deprecated. The software's simplicity and functionality - including a neat feature through which users can offer a chunk of hard drive space to their friends for completely free remote backups, the contents of which are fully encrypted and private - resulted in widespread adoption, aided in no small part by cloud storage subscription pricing offering unlimited capacity for just $60 a year (around £47 excluding taxes). The company soon found success with its 'freemium' model, offering the cross-platform Java-based software free of charge to home users and asking for payment only if said users wanted to store their backups on Code42's remote servers.

Code42, the company behind popular cloud backup platform CrashPlan, has announced it is pivoting away from home users to focus on small business and enterprise customers - and that if current subscribers don't double their payments, their backups will be deleted.įounded in 2001 by Matthew Dornquast, Brian Bispala, and Mitch Coopet as an IT consultancy which would eventually attempt to replicate the success of Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook, Code42 switched tacks in 2007 to launch the CrashPlan backup service.

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