May 2008 Review
June 4, 2008
May was one of those months where things changed more than I really thought they would change. The traffic was larger than the month of April and we had close to 400,000 hits from 75,000 unique visitors to our service. We added some functionality and will have some big changes in June! More as it arrives
April 2008 Review
May 2, 2008
April was much like March in terms of the traffic and resources required. We had just a shy less than 60,000 unique visitors serving up close to 200,000 page views with well over 300,000 hits in the month of April. Since Onvertigo Bloggers is still in beta (only 20 blogs) this was pretty impressive for us. The next stage of our beta invitations will be done in the month of May and June and we hope to have the service with 50-100 blogs by summer. Those interested in blogging here can still contact me if you want an invitation 
The size of Onvertigo Bloggers will continue to be limited through invitations for the foreseeable feature to ensure that we are constantly optimizing our resources for the best user experience possible. This will help us with the transition of the social networking features that we are introducing over the next couple of months. We have some exciting things coming up!
April brought us the newest admin “dashboard” and some fairly large changes to the optimization of both our servers. We also changed around our ssl administration on our admin area to only secure the data that needs securing. This increased the speed of the dashboard to a massive degree! Hope everyone likes the new page loading times!
As always, if you have any questions or concerns you can now send me a message through the “dashboard” as well since May has brought us the first stage of our social features with our new member messaging!
March 2008 Update
March 29, 2008
One of the great things about the hosting solution that Onvertigo Bloggers is running on is the ability to make the changes necessary to keep the server running at its greatest efficiency and upgrade resources as they are needed. Since the launch of the service in January we have a spike in traffic and resources. In the month of March it looks like the server will have managed 350,000 hits from 60,000+ unique visitors without flinching. Part of this is because of the resources at our control and part of it was through some optimization. The interesting thing is that Onvertigo Bloggers is still an invitation only community and will remain that way as we get our growth strategy in place. In fact, we might leave it that way anyways 
The latest change was managing our database solutions and have officially increased the number of databases serving up information from our blogs to 256. While this solution is maybe “over the top” right now, it may become essential down the road and like any project, looking at the end goals is necessary right from the start. Just the move from 1 database to 16 was an interesting move, but from 16 to 256 was even more interesting. If others want to run WPMU and expect growth, my suggestion is do the 256 from the start
There are many discussions out there on whether a VPS (virtual private server) has the resources to keep up with the demands of a blogging service versus a dedicated physical server. It seems to me that the power of the VPS that I am running could handle plenty of growth and while I could eventually move to a dedicated physical server, I am more likely to run a VPS cluster solution. Maybe move the database to one VPS and the file server to another. It is not something that is required now, but something we can look at down the road. Happy blogging!
Trent Adams