Re:Ask HN: Is any bootstrapped startup running their own ser...
by donmcc on Friday June 22, 2012 @04:47PM
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We had over 1000 downloads direct from our server of our first free issue, and hundreds more from the iBookstore. Our second issue sold around 40 so far at $5 through the iBookstore and Amazon (with direct sales coming soon).
We're gearing up to publish our next issue at the end of July and do a big marketing/PR push around Photoshop World in September. I'm confident our one little server will hold up just fine.
The bulk of the 1000 downloads came over a couple days after we were mentioned in Adobe's Photoshop.com blog. According to Google Analytics we had on the order of 20 simultaneous visitors at times without a hiccup. That's actually a pretty light load for a modern PC server -- I didn't even bother to ssh into our mini to check performance stats. We do have CloudFlare proxying the site, so undoubtedly that helps.
We're gearing up to publish our next issue at the end of July and do a big marketing/PR push around Photoshop World in September. I'm confident our one little server will hold up just fine.
The bulk of the 1000 downloads came over a couple days after we were mentioned in Adobe's Photoshop.com blog. According to Google Analytics we had on the order of 20 simultaneous visitors at times without a hiccup. That's actually a pretty light load for a modern PC server -- I didn't even bother to ssh into our mini to check performance stats. We do have CloudFlare proxying the site, so undoubtedly that helps.