If you effectively leverage social media, you can use the Disrupt audience to further amplify the traffic to your site.If you have a consumer appeal you can expect to get more traffic than if you are business or enterprise focused.For the average company that doesn't make the finals, expect between 10,000 - 20,000 page views per day during TC Disrupt, about 20% of that traffic concentrated during the hour that you're on stage.Over the three days at TC Disrupt, expect your site to get an average of a 3x to 10x surge in traffic. ![]() While the exact numbers vary, here's what happens to their websites: ![]() To get a sense of what Battlefield companies can expect, we aggregated the log data of 20 companies that were on CloudFlare's network when they launched. They agreed to let me tell a bit about their experience and share details from their traffic logs in order to prepare companies in the Battlefield for what to expect. Their sites were also all on CloudFlare for the launch, so we have the actual log data on what their servers saw. Tony Gauda, CEO of Bitcasa (Battlefield Finalist), Rebecca Woodcock, CEO of CakeHealth (Battlefield Finalist), and Jevon MacDonald CEO of GoInstant (acquired by Salesforce) were all standouts from last year's competition. By our count, we've helped about 25% of the Battlefield companies over the last two years ensure their sites stay online even under the crushing load a Disrupt launch brings.Īs Disrupt San Francisco 2012 gets started, I thought it would be cool to reach out to some of the standout companies that launched a year ago in order to give you a behind the scenes peek at what it's like to launch there. And, if launching at Disrupt does one thing, it's deliver a huge burst of traffic. CloudFlare's bread and butter is keeping sites running fast and stable even during huge bursts in traffic. One of the most rewarding things for us has been getting to help other companies as they launched at the four Disrupt events since: New York 2011, San Francisco 2011, Beijing 2011, and New York 2012. Since then, we've rolled out 23 data centers (one per month since launch), added more than half a million customers' websites, and powered nearly half a trillion page views through the CloudFlare network. It was an incredible experience for us and we owe a significant amount of our success to the stage Disrupt provided us. Taptich told Gigaom he couldn’t comment on specifics because of the pending court case.CloudFlare launched almost exactly 2 years ago at the first TechCrunch Disrupt SF. US District Judge William Alsup ordered the plaintiff to pay for $99 for an additional month under the company’s new pricing plan if he needs more time to migrate data.Īccording to Gigaom, the legal documents stated that the court-ordered extension was likely to push Bitcasa into bankruptcy within weeks or days. He claimed Bitcasa didn’t give him enough time to migrate data. One customer, upset by the discontinuation of the unlimited storage plan, launched a tentative class-action lawsuit against Bitcasa. Its new infrastructure, on Amazon, will prevent this by letting the company know when data is tied to inactive accounts. Taptich said that Bitcasa’s encryption technology prevented the company from seeing who the data belonged to, which means it couldn’t get rid of data that belonged to inactive users on its servers. Taptich told Gigaom that one customer who stored 82 terabytes of data with the unlimited storage plan was costing the company between $3000 and $4000 per month.īitcasa announced the change at the end of October, and said that a growing number of “suspected abusers” meant its Infinite cloud storage service was no longer a viable business model for the company, even though only 0.5 percent of Bitcasa accounts required more than 1TB of storage. According to Bitcasa CEO Brian Taptich, the company could simply not afford to keep unlimited-storage users as customers. This article originally appeared at The WHI Rīitcasa has unveiled more details about why it had to discontinue its unlimited cloud storage plan in an interview with Gigaom on Tuesday.
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