OnlineClock.net | success story

onlineclock

The success story of OnlineClock.net is not less than a bumpy ride. It was created by Thomas M. Churm, in March 2006, who was living a life of an average Joe until one night, when he was lying in his bed, suffering from insomnia, and suddenly jumped with joy, and scribbling something on a piece of paper, which said, ‘’Create website to use as an alarm clock.’’ And so it began, and OnlineClock.net soon manifested into reality, when he woke up the next day reading his note.

Later the following year, OnlineClock.net got listed on the first page of Digg.com, we was indeed a major breakthrough. During the same month, they got kicked off their very first web hoster due to heavy traffic, so they finally got their own dedicated server. In early 2007, the site began to expand as they add more clocks, online stop watch and the famous countdown timer.

In November, 2007: while Thomas was on his vacation in Canary Islands, the web host of their dedicated server failed and he had to switch the host urgently. After almost a year, the owner of a competitor website had threatened him with Serbian Mafia, to which he reacted by notifying the authorities. After a couple of months, he decided to join various social networking websites, such as, Facebook and Twitter, and even published his own blog, which was called The Alarm Clock Blog.
OnlineClock.net reached it’s another milestone the next year in June 2009, when they created their own Online Timer, which got really popular within a few days! After a few months, the website got attacked by hackers by adding spam on their home page, and flew out of index of the search engine, Google. Luckily, they recovered from this set back and returned to Google in just a day or two.

OnlineClock.net came up with the world’s first ever internet based clock radio in September 2009, although their press release came later. In early 2010, the website moved to the Cloud Web Hosting in order to make sure there is maximum up-time, even though it was pretty expensive for them. Later in June, Online Clock got mentioned in an article published in one of the biggest newspapers in the world, The New York Times.

In April 2013, Online Clock reached their biggest milestone in their history, as they got traffic of 4 million organic visitors in just one month! Unfortunately, after a while, their website got hit by DDoS attack, but the server of their website never went down and that attack was finally thwarted. Due to this, the Cloud Hoster tried to bill them all for the extra traffic on their website.

Now that you are aware of this jaw dropping journey of Online Clock, you can see how hard it is to make it big if you are working on a website and have an innovative idea which focuses on creating a revolution rather than revenue. You can also check out their interactive info-graphic that they made, which shows the history of Online Clock.

“Online Clock – The Board Game”, An Infographic by OnlineClock.net