RedCafe.net
Sport
- Launched: May 1997
- Site Type: Community driven sports website
10 years old this year, RedCafe.net was founded by Abecto Design director Niall Mullally and is the leading Manchester United fan website.
Originally established as a content driven website with news, match reports, editorials and multimedia content, the site has since evolved into a thriving community oriented site with a large global audience.
Powered by the vBulletin forum software, the site is the most popular Manchester United online discussion forum, serving over four million pages and 100,000 worldwide visitors a month.
Abecto Design is responsible for the hosting of RedCafe.net and in order to minimise hardware and bandwidth costs, careful systems and applications tuning is required to support the millions of page impressions the site generates each month. Careful configuration and tuning ensure maximum uptime and maximum performance to keep the cost per page to a minimum.
In 1999, RedCafe.net was a double nominee at Ireland's top web awards, the Golden Spiders. The site was put forward for Best Young Person's Website and Best Personal Website awards, winning the latter.
RedCafe.net continues to grow and has established itself as one of the most successful websites of its kind.
