Who owns this site?

[John1952]

I was looking for an "About this site" page, and couldn't find one.

I'm just curious about who's responsible for this great site. Is it one person? A company? I'd really like to see a history of how it started, and how it's evolved. I think it's poised for great things in the near future.

Or maybe everybody knows this, and I just couldn't find an answer.

 

[Elendil]

The Mafia is rumored to own the site but I cannot.................*gunshots* followed by total silence............

 

[oldsoldier]

http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/ecf-library/169156-ecf-history.html

SmokeyJoe founded ECF, Rolygate is the Site Manager.

The day to day operation of ECF is handled by a very dedicated staff of volunteer moderators without which this forum would simply cease to function. My thanks go out to all of the current moderators and all of the past moderators that have helped make ECF what it is now.

 

[John1952]

Thanks for that link, oldsoldier.

Somebody needs to update that history. 10,000 visitors per day in 2009 probably means 50,000 per day in 2012.

 

[rolygate]

Working on it now. Thanks for the prompt

ECF is owned by SJ but it is left to the team of around 20 who run it to determine policy and execute it. It's too big for any small group to run now.

The site runs from several dedicated servers with a load-balancer, there are 1,500 online at once on a busy evening, and the highest number online at any time was 3,800. There are hundreds of thousands of pages, we have several thousand Google #1 search results, and there are about 10,000 newcomers every day who have never been to the site before and a significant number of whom are probably investigating vaping and what to buy.

Traffic about doubles every year, and the site has the most complex interaction between community and trade that you will find anywhere, with over 1,000 vendors now registered.

ECF is an institution more than anything else now. Every week sees a new problem and new issues to fix. Occasionally there's even good news too