smm-guru

Ahh yes, compatibility was one of my big fears. I developed the site on WordPress 2.5 and when I upgraded everything was fine. I keep track of all the subscriptions using wp_meta options so I think I will have to be careful with future upgrades… I also have full backups emailed to my home account every hour.

Other than that most of my stuff is stand alone code I put into plugin format to make things easier. I am looking in to procuring a stand alone server, hopefully on Media Temple’s dedicated-virtual systems. They are a nit pricey for full dedicated boxes but I have heard great things about their (gv) service.

Other than that issues are at a minimum. We are at 400 users now with 190 + paid subscribers. Right now I am just focusing on keeping customers happy, adding content, and pushing revenue. lol I tried to sign up for Woopra to get some better stats (Analytics and AWstats is lame) but apparently they cant handle my 6,000,000 + pageviews a month while in beta ??

lol, I have a very targeted niche. I am doing quite well with it. This is the fastest growing project I have ever had… In three months I am averaging 6 million hits with 100,000 unique users.

Guess it was only a matter of time until the hard work paid off.

? My site is streaming videos and what not…. trust me, there are pics all over. I have thumbnail series for all of my vids as previews.

@dgold

Thanks for all the info, I figured I would start to have backed problems before WordPress it self. Between yesterday morning and now I got another 60 registrations, 29 of which registered for monthly(19) and trial(10) subscriptions.

I thought about building my own CMS for this site but now I am sooooo glad I went with WordPress lol. Its much easier and I was able to convert a lot of my code into custom plugins easily.

However I dont think its fare to compare a shared hosted website to WordPress.com…. I remember reading an article about some beefy hardware they have to handle all the requests. The reason I actually changed over to subscriptions was because the free service model just was not supporting the 15TB of bandwidth every month. The site is only 3 months old so there is no real ad revenue to support itself but these subscriptions are cash money right now… I read about how people are spending their economic stimulus package on adult entertainment so I figured what the hell lol… Prices have already gone up 3 times (while I do keep it pretty fair) and people aren’t batting an eye.

…. Neither of you obviously know and giving away my site is irrelevant as it makes no difference.

Can anyone answer this? My guess is that I will start to have MySQL issues around 1K users.

Secret. Its an experiment im doing with my first adult entertainment site.