What does it take to run a web app with 5K

Re:What does it take to run a web app with 5K – 10K users? by phacops on Friday January 09, 2015 @12:53PM (#8863314)

I have a little over 10k DAU for http://cronometer.com/ and it runs on 2 fairly small cloud instances + a cloud database. A single host can handle the load fine, but I keep 2 running to survive failures.

And it took me nearly 4 years to get that many users. We can’t all grow like facebook!

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Re:What does it take to run a web app with 5K – 10K users? by wahsd on Friday January 09, 2015 @02:50PM (#8864072)

I had never even heard of your site. Could it be you need to do a little marketing?

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Re:What does it take to run a web app with 5K – 10K users? by phacops on Friday January 09, 2015 @02:57PM (#8864130)

True, it started as a hobby, so it’s been fully bootstrapped and I’ve spent less than $2500 on actual marketing to date. Advertising in the Health / Diet space is super pricy, the ROI still doesn’t make sense. CPA >>>>>> LTV

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Re:What does it take to run a web app with 5K – 10K users? by jorgtron on Sunday January 11, 2015 @07:01AM (#8869755)

Just a quick note: The links to foods on your front page point to the wrong URLs :)

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