Heard this week: a new host that won on a single feature

Heard this week: a new host that won on a single feature
Word is a managed-host launch nobody expected to survive carved out real ground by refusing to be general-purpose. A source tells us they targeted one vertical — high-traffic membership sites — and built around a single pain: login-storm performance.
The wedge worked. By optimizing session handling and object cache for authenticated traffic, they claim member-area page loads stayed under 400ms even at 5,000 concurrent logged-in users, where incumbents fell over around 1,200.
The business outcome: 600 paying accounts in eight months, average deal size near $290/month, almost all switchers from two big names.
Unconfirmed, but a competitor reportedly tried to acqui-hire the founder.
Watch this: the niche-wedge launch is beating the do-everything launch.