100,000 NektoMe users

Today the number of registered users of NektoMe has exceeded 100 thousand people!
We came to this relatively quickly - in just 5 months, but the path we took was quite difficult.
I want to tell a little about how we expand.

I'll start with information on accommodation
The first month we sat at the maximum tariff FirstVDS.ru, but it quickly began to be missed.
Next, we moved to Clodo.ru and stayed there for about four months.
There were two problems - brakes with discs [WA was consistently high] and drops, of course.
Moving to their new vaunted file system did not help either. Brakes remained.
Finally, recently, we moved to a good dedicated server with SAS disks.
The site began to fly, and the expense of finance, you will not believe the same as on Claudo!
Also, to reduce the load on the disk, we stopped storing more than 1000 files in one folder.
For example, a month ago, a folder with avatars contained more than 140 thousand pictures!
In general, it used to be /ava/2034.jpg , now it has become /ava/2/034.jpg

About increasing functionality
We started as a service of anonymous comments.
Easy registration, no extra information - you get a page and throw it in the social. network.
The service was just an addition to social networks. You could even say a toy.
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Then we added blogs and photos. It's so great when all the familiar people can talk without masks about your personality, appearance, and your brilliant blog posts.
Criticism helps us to become better.
For the first month, users wrote 4,000 blog entries and uploaded 11,000 photos (piece loading, 30 user limit per user).

And as soon as we launched friends and messages, 1500 social contacts (friend postings) were recorded on the site within 24 hours! Page views increased by 30%.
By default, friends are hidden. You can add no more than 100 friends.

About messaging system
In early May, we began to develop a system of conversations with the possibility of adding up to 7 friends.
What was our surprise when VKontakte announced a similar function on June 2nd.
Moreover, they launched it in the middle of May, just announced later.
I had a shock. 4 years did not move, and here as soon as we started it, they start.
Redesigning the architecture was already expensive and we still launched our system of group conversations.
Powered by files. This is something similar to leproinbox, only in a more nimble version.

We also added this ajax-panel, which turns green when there are new messages.


About competition
When we first started, I, of course, was afraid of the emergence of direct competitors.
Services of anonymous questions already existed, but we launched the service of anonymous opinions first.
Surprisingly, during these 5 months no one has created a service similar to ours.
There are new services anonymous questions. There are clones of foreign services .
And in a niche of anonymous opinions, no one climbs. It turns out that there is competition, but inferior.
It's a pity. Competitors - this is one of the best incentives to help develop quality.

Growth chart


Hey gay, we did it! In less than six months we have done a popular project, which
already included in the top thirty most visited projects on this topic in runet .

Now I am not ashamed to invite you to join ,%% username.

PS He is waiting for your opinions !