Four great years of Ping.sg
It’s been 4 great years of Ping.sg!
Growth
We have been growing steadily since our launch back in 4 July 2006.
Over the last 2 years, we have had steady >100% growth of number of registered users every year.
There has been more blogs added to Ping.sg in the 4th year alone compared to the number of blogs added for the last 3 years combined.
Needless to say, the number of blog posts we syndicate each day have been increased very significantly over the years. We now have >5000 new blog entries every single day! The numbers completely dwarfed what we were syndicating per day for the first 3 years.
Coping with growth
Obviously with such a high increase of activity and traffic on Ping.sg, our old dedicated server was not able to support it well.
Over the course of last year, we have done tremendous work in optimizing our code (for the technically-inclined, this means lots of indexing and lots of caching with both memcached and file-cache). We have also moved our whole infrastructure from a dedicated server in a data center in Singapore to be fully cloud-based, to enjoy the benefit of easy parallel and vertical expansion of our hosting infrastructure.
Since the start of 2010, we are fully hosted on Amazon Web Services‘ cloud computing platform. Though at that time, our main compute server was located at eastern USA, we made sure our system exploit the content distribution network (CDN) to make sure that the majority of our users, who are based in Singapore, are still able to enjoy the speed of Ping.sg. In April 2010 when Amazon launches the availability of Singapore cloud infrastructures, we immediately switch ours from USA to Singapore.
Moving ahead
Despite the changes on our software and hardware infrastructures, we admit that there has not been much feature updates for the last 1 year. While it has been our intention to extend the services of Ping.sg further, due to the limited resources that we have, we have had to deal with the pressing matters at hand – coping with the growth, and optimizing and cleaning our codebase.
With the current position that we are in now, we now have an inflow of a large amount of blog-related data, including and not limited to blog posts, categories, content, and user activities. With such vast amount of data, the current presentation is quickly becoming obsolete. It’s becoming almost impossible to pick out the good articles from the sea of information. We are currently experimenting with new presentation on our site. Moving ahead, we aim to showcase and heuristically determine interesting/noteworthy blog posts based on visitor’s interests.
Ping.sg is still a blogger community and we aim to continue to improve to not just bring more traffic to bloggers, but to also aid in connecting bloggers in the region and making blogging more fun and rewarding.
Thank you!
All of these are only happening thanks for the continual support of the bloggers and blog readers. Thanks for giving us a healthy growth for the last 4 years!
Many thanks to our sponsors as well for believing in us all these years. We couldn’t have grown without any of your support!
Stay tuned for more updates soon. If you have any feedbacks for us, feel free to email us at we@ping.sg. You may also consider joining our beta program for helping us to test our new features.
Happy 4th-nivasary Ping!
Claudia
July 4, 2010 at 9:19 pm
hapy 4th-nivasary
nindy
June 21, 2011 at 10:35 am
Interesting and happy to see how Ping.sg grows and succeeds throughout the years !
And more more readership and registered users = GOOD !
Congratulations and happy birthday ! =D
And this reminds me of presentation with charts and tables
Sy
July 4, 2010 at 10:06 pm
Congatz:)
kelvin
July 5, 2010 at 12:47 am
Hi Uzyn,
Congrats on the success of Ping.SG. Been a member since 2007 and till today Ping.SG had help drive much traffic to my blog and I must say I made lots of bloggers friends from Ping.SG too!
Kriscell
July 5, 2010 at 12:53 am
Happy Happy Birthday Ping.SG !
Beaute Runway
July 5, 2010 at 4:36 am
Congratulations U-Zyn and happy to know that Ping.sg is still alive and well. It has however changed quite dramatically in nature, though some of the oldies are still around and active.
Walter
July 5, 2010 at 6:29 am
A big HUAT to Ping.sg!
krisandro
July 5, 2010 at 6:57 am
There is one thing u need to improve though…the spams in the cbox!!!
Happy birthday^^
kelvin
July 5, 2010 at 8:55 am
That’s a big jump! Congrats!
AtelierGal
July 5, 2010 at 10:27 am
Congrats! Here’s to another 4 years
Uncle Sha
July 5, 2010 at 1:51 pm
Happy birthday ping.sg!
rinaz
July 5, 2010 at 2:30 pm
You’re the one, Ping.sg! (wait, confuse that with another cheer. Heh.)
a_x
July 5, 2010 at 10:18 pm
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anly
July 23, 2010 at 9:21 am
that is great
go go go ping sg.!!
dinoo
July 24, 2010 at 4:24 pm
Do limit the spam on cbox. Anyway, congrats to this achievement!
parroha
July 31, 2010 at 3:22 pm
Excellent article.
virtual services
August 20, 2010 at 12:33 pm
wow nice !
TPH
August 27, 2010 at 11:36 pm
I think much of the PING.SG growth are due to spam and junk posts.
liew
September 18, 2010 at 2:50 pm
Congratulations and keep up the good work.
Zoltan - Confidence dude
November 12, 2010 at 8:45 pm
I can´t believe it´s been 4 years now. Thanks for the great job.
Marketing guy
November 12, 2010 at 8:47 pm
happy b-day ping.sg
Dasril Iteza
November 14, 2010 at 2:04 am
always sucess and great reader, more blogger registered in here. happy anniversary 4th
unlimitedwebhosting
November 14, 2010 at 10:57 am
Congratulations Ping.sg. Nice growth.
Led vilagitas
December 21, 2010 at 10:33 pm
Congratulations. So on. Can thrive in 2011.
Takarito
December 24, 2010 at 9:37 pm
coolness!Congratulations Ping.sg.
graphic design inspiration
October 16, 2011 at 5:47 am
coolness! Congratulations Ping.sg
graphic design inspiration
October 16, 2011 at 5:48 am
Congratulations. And thanks to you, too. For helping bloggers spread the post.
Dwijayasblog
January 29, 2012 at 2:18 pm
True
Graphic Design Inspiration
February 7, 2012 at 3:20 am
Selamat dan Sukses ….
embe17
February 1, 2012 at 11:47 pm
Congratz for your achievment!
Zooey Deschanel
February 19, 2012 at 4:48 am