As I mentioned in another comment DNS load balancing prevents having only one front-end.

Simplest is the DNS load balancing. You can define multiple A records for the same domain and you are good to go!

I agree DNS load balancing is very easy and free. I've also done it in the past. Thanks for the input!

This is my new startup and I'd love to get your feedback. It reached 1.2 million members with only viral.

Basically you set up an account for people to chat with you anonymously. As their identities are anonymous your friends can ask everything to you that they normally cannot ask. They can tell their thoughts and criticisms about you.

Moreover, you have an opportunity to chat anonymously with celebrities you admire through Connected2.me. You can tell your problems to specialists such as psychologists by keeping your identity secret and get an instant answer. Companies also use Connected2.me in order to get anonymous feedback about their products and give support to their customers real-time.

Please try and tell me what do you think.

This is my new startup and I'd love to get your feedback. It reached 500K+ members with only viral.

Basically you can think of it as Formspring with chat. You set up an account for people to chat with you anonymously. As their identities are anonymous your friends can ask everything to you that they normally cannot ask. They can tell their thoughts and criticisms about you.

Moreover, you have an opportunity to chat anonymously with celebrities you admire through Connected2.me. You can tell your problems to specialists such as psychologists by keeping your identity secret and get an instant answer. Companies also use Connected2.me in order to get anonymous feedback about their products and give support to their customers real-time.

Please try and tell me what you think.

mobile version works pretty well. This fb virality thing is nuts.

are ads enough to support your operational costs? Any more ideas moving forward?

i think there's some potential in anonymous feedback for large brands. Build a business development team and go after them.

This is my new startup and I'd love to get your feedback. It reached 500K+ members with only viral.

Basically you can think of it as Formspring with chat. You set up an account for people to chat with you anonymously. As their identities are anonymous your friends can ask everything to you that they normally cannot ask. They can tell their thoughts and criticisms about you.

Moreover, you have an opportunity to chat anonymously with celebrities you admire through Connected2.me. You can tell your problems to specialists such as psychologists by keeping your identity secret and get an instant answer. Companies also use Connected2.me in order to get anonymous feedback about their products and give support to their customers real-time.

Please try and tell me what you think.

I think it shouldn't wake up when the lid is closed. Am I missing a point?

This is my new startup and I'd love to get your feedback. It reached 250K+ members with only viral.

Basically you can think of it as Formspring with chat. You set up an account for people to chat with you anonymously. As their identities are anonymous your friends can ask everything to you that they normally cannot ask. They can tell their thoughts and criticisms about you.

Moreover, you have an opportunity to chat anonymously with celebrities you admire through Connected2.me. You can tell your problems to specialists such as psychologists by keeping your identity secret and get an instant answer. Companies also use Connected2.me in order to get anonymous feedback about their products and give support to their customers real-time.

Please try and tell me what do you think.

I will prepare a detailed blog post explaining how our application spread :)

looking forward to it!

Nginx - web server

Tornado - chat system

PHP Symfony2 framework - web page generation

Yes, we need to differentiate users at least based on their language.

I am not sure which method to use in order to differentiate users. We can use geo-ip databases but I want to be sure that they are reliable. Maybe we can just let users select a location.

Any ideas?

Don't mix language and location. I might be in Spain but I might want to chat in Finnish.

For language, yes, allow the user to set it. However, you can probably use the Accept-Language http header to get the right language for most users.

Yes, we may try the Accept-Language. But I need to make sure that it is reliable.

There is a discussion about this: http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-accept-lang-loc...

Why not try a combination?

As long as the user can ultimately decide on their own, you can try a best guess for them. Just make it easy to switch and let the user know first thing.

Yes, I think that would be the best solution.

As a follow-up I ran into the exact same issue as above. I think the language-matching is really a must for an app like this to ensure users have a good experience their first time.