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Dubizzle.com

Dubizzle.com is one of those wonderful websites where you can place free classifieds to sell all those things you no longer need. Dubizzle connects people across different languages in different countries, helping them to sell stuff to people who want it – simply and effectively. Brilliant!

World leading online classifieds and community portal hosts with Rackspace.

Dubizzle.com is one of those wonderful websites where you
can place free classifieds to sell all those things you no
longer need. Dubizzle connects people across different
languages in different countries, helping them to sell stuff to
people who want it – simply and effectively. Brilliant!

Online marketplace
Dubizzle is also the perfect place for businesses to advertise and
directly reach an ever growing audience, as has been proven by the
success of this online marketplace. The site contains an extensive and
completely free classifieds section including, property for rent and
property for sale sections, an automotive section, jobs pages and a wide
variety of other fun, useful and interactive sections. Dubizzle’s claim as
the best local marketplace to buy, sell, find, anything in a community,
free and fast is backed up by its huge online audience figures.

Community websites
Dubizzle was started in the United Arab Emirates by founders Sim
Whatley and J.C.Butler, two enterprising young Americans who saw an
urgent need for a community style website that offered the opportunity to
find jobs, furniture, homes, and anything else you needed to set up a life,
online. Since its launch in August 2005 the site has grown considerably
and is now recognised as one of the most popular community websites
in the UAE with more than 45 million page views per month.

Available in 14 countries and three languages
As a result of the huge success in the UAE, Dubizzle sites are now
available in 14 countries: Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait,
Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia
and the UAE. The websites are all offered in English, French and Arabic,
but the great thing for users is that adverts are automatically translated
to increase the market size and penetration.

Professional hosting partner
Sebastian Dietzel is the Senior Software Developer at Dubizzle, “When
Dubizzle.com was first set up the site required little more than an inhouse
server, which grew into a hosted service in just a few years, but
the growth explosion during 2009, the switch to Python dynamic
programming language and the dramatic success of the UAE parent
site, as well as the development of new country sites, meant that we
needed to find a professional hosting partner that could help us maintain
and support this incredible growth, as well as cater for a burgeoning
bandwidth requirement. One of the lead developers was aware of the
reputation of Rackspace® Hosting and reported a good experience with
the company. We contacted them to see how they could help us develop
and grow the business.”

45 Million Page Views per month
Sebastian said, “Bringing Rackspace on board as our hosting partner
has proven to be a major contribution to the success and growth of
Dubizzle into 14 countries. The site currently receives over 1 million
unique visitors and over 45 million page views per month, so the hosting
has become a critical part of the business, but more essential was the
fact that we are now able to guarantee site availability at all times of the
day and night and have unrestricted access to a professional support
team, which is second to none. It is quite true to say that Rackspace
offers Fanatical Support® 24 hours a day, seven days a week and 365
days a year. Their performance is undimmed by the time of day or night
and their in-depth technical advice has been critical to our success.”

Consistent, reliable performance
Sebastian Dietzel revealed, “We could not run the business as
successfully as we have without a consistent level of site performance.
We don’t have any dramas or downtime problems, and the servers are 
maintained and backed up by Rackspace without fuss or interruption of 
service. Rackspace excels when compared to any other hosting
company, and it is this quality and capability combined with consistent,
reliable performance that brings us absolute peace of mind and total
confidence, allowing us to get on with the important tasks of promoting
and developing our business.”Sebastian concluded, “I would not hesitate
to recommend Rackspace as a hosting provider to other companies.
You get what you pay for and if your site is critically important to your
business then you simply must use the best.”

David Kelly is Managing Director of Rackspace EMEA. We are
delighted to be the hosting partner for Dubizzle.com. It is a remarkably
successful community web project, which has grown rapidly over a very
short space of time and has proven to be immensely popular in the UAE
and other countries in the Middles East and Africa. To see for yourself
visit www.dubizzle.com. If you are shopping for the perfect hosting
partner in the region then please feel free to browse our website at
www.rackspace.ae where you can use the friendly online chat feature
for the latest hosting information. Alternatively, please call us for
FREE hosting advice on 8000440578.