Follow Per Click vs Pagely

Personalized Banner Ads That Follow Any Audience On Major Websites

We are a google-based SaaS for digital banner ads. Our approach is different from traditional advertising because we are not trying to show our ads to a large audience, but rather to specific people who click on a designated link provided by Follow Per Click. Users can display any message, image, or combination on major platforms for up to 30 days after anybody clicks on the link. Any individual entrepreneur, or small business, who wants to take advantage of the service just needs to be able to upload an image, provide a headline, and choose a call to action. Once Follow Per Click receives the information from a customer, via mobile apps or website, they create banner ads in all sizes availible. Follow Per Click then sends the dynamic ads back to the user for approval. Once approved they will make a link, embedded with cookies, for them to share with their audience. Whoever clicks on the designated link will then be followed with the personal ads on many websites, mobile applications, or video sites like YouTube.

We help startups scale WordPress.

Pagely created the Managed WordPress hosting space in 2009, and has been providing secure and reliable WP hosting services to companies like Facebook and NGINX with a focus on:

Performance: Opcode caching, full page caching, optimized PHP and Database setups are essentially platform defaults now instead of the customer trying to figure it out on their own with a mix of plugins and research. More sensible resource balancing on shared setups (old shared hosting providers were notorious for overselling). Collectively these things have made WordPress dramatically faster (vs. a default install) in most use cases.

Security: Some level of malware/file scanning, hardened OS installs, least-privileged access, web application firewalls and DDoS mitigation may be defaults at most Managed WordPress providers now. You don’t hear about widespread security issues as we did in say the 2008-2011 period. Those that come up are mitigated quickly by the Core team (or the respective plugin author) and aided by rapidly deployed patches or firewall rules by the Managed hosts.

Tooling: Automating installs, code updates, and backups along with staging and deployment workflows enabled development teams to work faster and create more complex yet stable sites on WordPress.

Support: More knowledgeable support technicians that understand WordPress to a higher degree than a generic web host. Some providers are better than others but all seem to at least make an attempt to specialize in the unique support requirements of WordPress. Here at Pagely we take great pride in our quality over quantity approach to support ensuring that every agent is not only deeply skilled in WordPress but proficient in the core technical skills of DevOps and deployment management allowing them to address any performance or security issue that may arise.

What’s next for Pagely?
It’s odd to look at the landscape, this $1 Billion-channel we created (and of course others helped to grow) and reflect on where we fit in the picture going forward. For us, it’s fairly simple – do more of the things that have made us successful thus far: Investing in our people and focusing on the customer. It’s a recipe that wins over the long term.