History of dirty-david
I created dirty-david the site in January 1999 as a way of getting
back into the swinging scene after my divorce.
Through 1997 and 1998 I ran a exhibitionist
site for my ex-wife which had a small swingers ad section, after the divorce I
dropped my old moniker and started using a nickname I had been given "dirty-david"
(I am not however a dirty old man, it was just because I have a dirty mind!). Since I started
running the sites I must admit I have had a lot
of fun and met a lot of nice people.
dirty-david started on January 1st 1999 with some pictures
of me with a couple I had had some fun with, and about a dozen ads. By the
end of 1999 there were over 600 pictures in "My Darlings" and over 1000 swingers
ads. What started out as a hobby is now almost a full time job.
I started the site as a free resource for swingers, it still is, and I intend
to keep it that way. We charge for some premium services, but everything that
you need to make and maintain contact with other people is free.
By June 2000 the site had grown to about 2000 ads and about 1000 pix for you
to enjoy, all of them thumb-nailed so you can pick the ones you like the look
of. By mid July 2000 I could no longer cope with spending 40+ hours a week
editing adverts so I introduced a program which allowed users to post, edit and
delete their own ads. This let to a surge in new ads being placed, and helped
with clearing out dead ads, as they were deleted regularly unless the
user requests their extension.
I finished 1999 with 5 sections on the site, and at the start of
2000 I launched 3 more.
By September 2000 there were more than 20 sections on the
site.
By 2002 there were over 40 section on the
site, almost 3000 pictures in davids darlings, and 1500 ads - all under 2 weeks
old.
I also
introduced several complimentary sites:
I also produce sites as an
information service for the adult industry
-
killthatvirus
- Information on Virus checkers and Firewalls
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STOP-PED
- Information on how to report and stop child pornography
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UnWelcomeguests
- information about the scum who sell stories to the gutter press
I also ramped up production
of sites for other people, and now my company produces between 8 and 10 sites
for other people each month
I moved the management and hosting of the site to America in early 2000 as
I, like several other adult sites based in the UK came under threat from
big names in the adult industry operating in the UK, and from the UK's
notorious gutter press. Some of the images were also deemed a bit too strong
by my police contacts to be safely managed from a UK base.
Between May 1st
1999 and August 26th 2002 we had just under 14,000,000 visitors, with daily
traffic running at an average of 22,000 visitors a day, and a bandwidth usage of
3.5GB a day. There were between 100 and 150 ads posted every day, and over
1,000,000 ads read every day!
The
site is still run as a hobby site by me, but in order to meet the ever changing
requirements of the swinging community I have had to team up with another
company (The Adult Hub) to produce an ad system that meets your needs. The ads
are still free to use, with free membership, free profiles and messaging. There
are a few areas that have been made "premium" in order to cover the
costs of ongoing development, hosting fees and bandwidth - (running at 2
TerraBytes 0r 2000 MegaBytes a month in Jan 2004) Sometimes people complain that
the system run a bit slow, this is because we occasionally hit a bottleneck with
all the traffic. The system handles an average of 20 searches a second, but this
can shoot up to over 100 a second at busy times. If you are finding things a bit
slow, wait a few minutes and try again.
By Jan 1st 2004 10am, The Hub has just under 50,000 live
profiles (37,000 created through dirty-david, the rest through various partner
sites around the world).
By December 1st
2004, The hub now has over 250,000 live profiles, (110,00 created through dirty-david,
the rest through partners)
By October 31st 2005, The hub now
has over 550,000 live profiles.
What
next?
At the end of
2003 I launched 123Couples.com - a swingers site for the USA, based on the Hub,
I am also launching a new European site called http://swingers.eu
which will be available in 5 languages sometime in 2005 when the .eu extensions
go live (English, Spanish,
German, Dutch and French). The Australian site will be more widely advertised
and the minority interest sites - swingingvirgins, softswinguk, softswingusa,
scubaswingers and a few other sites will be re-vamped and re-launched.
The entire dirty-david site was moved to a faster dedicated server in October
2005.
David
October 31st 2005