MEGA faced an insane press release, Kim Dotcom kicks the startup at one million users in one day

MegaUpload founder Kim Dotcom released a new file-sharing (online cloud storage) website that promises users better privacy and data encryption by default. The website is open for public now, and ready to serve the millions of users it already corporates.

In Dotcom's typical grandiose style, the launch party featured a tongue-in-cheek re-enactment of the dramatic raid on his home a year earlier, when New Zealand police swooped down in helicopters onto the mansion grounds and nabbed him in a safe room where he was hiding.

Just after the MEGA giant was announced, thousands of people creating an online cloud storage account on the website every minute.

Mega - Online Cloud Storage (Interface)

250,000 user registrations. Server capacity on maximum load. Should get better when initial frenzy is over. Wow!!!

— Kim Dotcom (@KimDotcom) January 19, 2013

Currently there are more than 1 million users registered on Kim Dotcom's new website - MEGA. The website faced immediate downtime after the few hours of the public release. We were comforted by Kim, that the website will get back to normal after the intial frenzy.

Kim also assured us that the other websites by the Mega team will be released soon - including the MegaMovie.

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