start123

by Richard H. Thaler

Started few weeks ago.

Until then, my site was down with customers complaining to me.

1. My Saas platform supports custom domains including naked domains and not just subdomains so it is important for me that the IP address remains the same when I add more capacity. I am running a single large droplet as of now and when I tried to add more instance + LB, DO wouldn't let me do that. Several people have asked this feature if you look in their forums. Unless I run and manage my own Haproxy/Nginx boxes, I cannot scale up.

2. This is currently a side project and I do not have additional time to maintain more resources which is why I am willing to spend more on a platform that provides me these features. This is not due to laziness as some people have commented.

The way I counter this is by not allowing people people to create generic links in the first place unless you are a paid customer. Plus, you need to add your custom domain to do something meaningful on the platform.

That pretty much weeds out 100% of scammers.

The good thing is that you can basically track anything. One of my clients uses short links on buttons and images to track conversions.

And yes, publishing industry can definitely benefit from this.