Interested in Buying Cligs? Read this.
Sorry for being quiet this week. It’s been crazy busy replying to all the emails of people reaching out and offering help, bouncing ideas around, etc.
A pattern of questions has emerged from people thinking of buying the Cligs service. So to stop repeating myself, here is a list of the common questions and their answers.
- How much for? The best offer wins. Email pierre@cli.gs by 14 October 2009 (in one week) and I’ll get in touch with everyone from the 15-21 October. The best/winning offer is not necessarily the one offering the most money.
- No, I won’t name a price.
- No, I won’t sell just the domain name.
- How many users does Cligs have? Tens of thousands registered user accounts, with countless others using it without an account. The exact number of accounts can be disclosed to those genuinely interested.
- How many forwards does Cligs do in a month? Tens of millions. Again, the exact number can be disclosed to those genuinely interested.
- How much revenue does Cligs earn? Consider it zero.
- Cligs is written in PHP using a custom framework, uses memcached, is hosted on just one High-CPU medium EC2 instance (yes one), and uses Amazon’s SimpleDB for persistent storage. It uses a few helper PHP libraries.
- The system is set up such that you can set up a number of EC2 instances behind a load balancer and it should scale. I’ve actually run the service briefly with two instances and it worked.
- How much does it cost to run Cligs? A few hundred dollars a month. It varies by traffic volume given how Amazon charges for bandwidth and SimpleDB usage.
- I’m happy to offer advice/help after the sale if you wish; we can talk about the details.
- No I won’t open source the code at this stage. Sorry.
For any questions or clarifications, please email me: pierre@cli.gs.
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