We are now completely moved over to EC2 at Cutcaster and running the site from there virtual servers. I am so excited to get this completed and want to publicly thank all the developers on the Cutcaster team for making it a reality.
Here are somethings you will notice now and some things we are still working on.
1. The site in general and search will be moving much quicker now. What I mean is moving from page to page you will see a difference in the speed of the page loading. You may still see a slight drag when you log onto the homepage and logging into your studio page but we are working on optimizing those pages so they load quicker.
2. The backend is moving at lightning quick speed so reviews will speed up even though they were pretty fast before. We also refined the backend review process to make it easier to review more images in a shorter period of time but still be as meticulous as possible. Right now we are moving at about a rate of 1 or 2 days to review images which is really fast.
3. We are optimizing our database so that search queries are even faster. We have been getting a lot more traffic and the amount of searches has risen so we need to make sure that when we get thousands of people on the site at once that it is ready for the load. This should be completed in the next week or so.
I will have more updates in the next few days about some exciting upcoming news. I was in Denver this past weekend finalizing a big traffic deal and have been meeting with and chatting over the phone with a lot of publishing, graphic design and advertising buyers. Things are looking great and I am very excited. 2009 is off to a great start and thanks for your continued support. And remember I am off to SF next Monday but you will not notice a change or difference except for our new mailing address. I can’t wait to get out there.
January 29, 2009 at 11:23 pm
Like the new look here! Thanks for the update on what is happening with the servers.