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A little over a year ago, Lulowin was nothing more than a small project for learning assembly language. Now it is one of the most downloaded websites in the world and has over 100 contributors and 50,000 downloads every month. However, this is not its real story: Lulowin can be found on hundreds of daily news sites and blogs across the web. This article will show how we managed to turn this small project into a market leading website while keeping it free (for everyone). The site has been running for almost two years now and we’ve seen thousands of downloads from people all around the world. Almost everyone who has tried to implement such a project has failed (not even once). The reason is simple: making people download something for free is not easy and one usually ends up spending more time on getting problems solved than actually getting the site up and running. Plenty of these issues stem from the fact that there are no real guides to this kind of project around. Asking around in forums or sites like dev.to will get you thousands of “it works for me” answers mostly consisting in “copy and paste it”. There is no real way of making this process as simple as we wanted it to be, so we decided to write it ourselves. The development of this project started more than a year ago but it wasn’t until after a few months that the growth of the community really picked up and we decided to take matters into our own hands. Without any previous experience in web programming or design, we had to overcome our first obstacle: finding a good hosting provider. Our first attempts to get a free place for hosting didn’t work out and we ended up paying for a server (for over 2 years). As we were busy with other projects and didn’t have the time to help out, we decided to get new hosts again. After researching several different options, we decided on Media Temple because of its ease of use and developer friendly interface. This decision turned out to be the right one since they offered us all the pricing plans we needed (including a free plan). Once our application had been placed on their webhosting system, it was ready for testing. However, it quickly became clear that Media Temple’s PHP applications are not very optimised which made our application perform really poorly. After some research, we decided to contact their support team. They explained that there is no direct way for us to improve the performance of our application (even though we had written their PHP libraries) or any other important information like performance statistics or traffic statistics. This led us to think about how our site could really benefit from an in-house solution; one which would allow us to monitor technical issues in real time and give detailed feedback if they were detected by their web server logs. eccc085e13
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