Since yesterday we’ve returned to an open signup system, where any user can sign-up immediately. We had to temporarily place limits on new user signups while we experienced very high demand, but we’ve added additional resources that should keep us going strong for a while.
We’ve also completely emptied the invitation queue — if you haven’t received an invitation by email (we had about 3% email failure rate: bouncing, etc), you should be able to sign up for an account immediately.
Thanks again for your patience while we grow, and for your feedback. We’re aware of a couple bugs, and have some great features planned for release this next week.
On a sidenote, I’ll be in New York at BizDev2 today, and TechCrunch 8 on Thursday — drop me a note if you’re attending.
After being covered recently on TechCrunch and other blogs, we received much more traffic than we expected to deal with this week. Luckily, we were prepared, and our cluster is braving the storm. We’ve overnighted a new dual-core server and some extra RAM, which we’ll be able to throw in on Monday. With the new server, we’ll empty the waiting list within a day and return to open signups. I woke up this morning to an email by Sid congratulating me on being TechCrunch’d. I was honestly quite surprised that I hadn’t received any notifications that our site went down, and our cluster seemed to be handling things admirably — in part, this was due to the fact that we limited user signups to 1,000, so we didn’t have too many concurrent users. Along with a couple bug fixes, we’ve made some fundamental changes to the way Weebly works. First, with some advice from Paul Graham (of YCombinator), we’ve done away with our invitation system. Second, we’ve revamped our home page to present a more detailed look into what Weebly is and what it can do for you. Third, we’ve removed the “Weebly Network” header bar. |
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