| "Im a virtualmin user, I love it, I use the GPL version as it's lighter and I need to squeeze out every cent of my server as memory is the big issue for my app." Awesome. Memory usage of GPL and Professional are roughly identical, but if you don't need the features of Professional, we'd encourage you to keep using GPL. Also check out our guide for running Virtualmin on low memory systems: http://www.virtualmin.com/documentation/id,virtualmin_on_low... Most memory usage is actually found in the underlying services, and not Virtualmin/Webmin proper (though Webmin with all of the Virtualmin modules cached is about 110MB...turning off that caching takes it down to 10MB). "Alas I don't expect that the startups I see here will change there focus and concentrate on SEO anytime soon, the general opinion that seems to be prevalent is that SEO is like web1, and social graphs and viral marketing will build the traffic." Actually, we thought hard about viral marketing and social graphs and realized that we don't stand a chance marketing via that path. Almost nothing about our product has viral characteristics, though word of mouth has been strong. We've been focusing on increasing the amount of valuable information on our network of websites (Webmin.com, Virtualmin.com, and Doxfer.com), such that searches for all sorts of common server administration problems will result in the user coming to one or more of our sites because the solution can be found there. I don't know how to measure the success of this, and it hasn't resulted in us being front page of Google for any of our keywords...but we do get several hundred visitors a day from natural search results to our forums and wikis. As I mentioned, our traffic is nothing to be ashamed of for a product site, and it's growing rapidly. All of this discussion has made me think a lot more about the problem. So I'm going to start paying more attention and blog about the results. Starting from our current "zero SEO effort" state, I'll spend the next couple of months tuning for SEO and post a few short articles about the results. It's certainly worth some testing, if we could crank up traffic without spending ad dollars. |
Im in the latter catagory, having moved over to a linode, (also highly recommended) after the app was OOM the previous server that was really lightweight and over priced, (that had cpanel) and I actually prefer Virtualmin. It's more rustic and I prefer the support from your small team.
As regards SEO traffic, I'm really glade your thinking of getting into it more. Basically you need to talk to a pro if you want to make headways, I assure you it's not just a case of having the right titles and meta tags, though of course that helps.