TagCloud is getting sponsered

Since the launch in June of 2005, TagCloud has registered over fourteen thousand users, kept track of around 120,000 website feeds, and peaked at over 6 million page views a month. And guess what.. that's all been done on ONE SINGLE SERVER!!

See, like many other great inventions in the Web 2.0 world apparently they never thought their little prototype experiment would turn into something as big as what TagCloud has become. According to the founder John Herren

We've enjoyed hearing so much positive feedback from our users, and we've loved the attention from the big boys like TechCrunch, Lifehacker, Wired, and Search Engine Watch. We've appeared on several Web 2.0 "best of" lists. We even got a chapter devoted to us in Yahoo! Hacks. A few months back we spoke at Under the Radar, and even won a prize at the first ever Mashup Camp. Yes, we've even had some folks copy our idea for their own service.

But since lately many people have written to TagCloud frustrated that we haven't been able to keep up with the demand, and they've been correct. Thus the founder goes on to say..

It's time to roll up our sleeves and make our site meet its demand. We're happy to announce that we are now sponsored by iWeb Technologies, a hosting company in Montreal. We're delighted that this will give us some much needed head room to scale our service.

Did I mention that TagCloud is also *just* a weekend project, and that they don't make any cash from it? But enough horn-tooting.