14 1 / 2011

We’re still here!

It has been a very long time since we posted anything here, so now is as good a time as any!

What have we been up to?
 
Don’t worry we have been hard at work behind the scenes answering your support tickets and keeping the current infrastructure up and running.
The rest of our time has been spent creating a more streamlined service for you all to you.

We started from scratch with this one and created our own framework and API to support it; implementing new features and changes will be a much easier thing so expect new features often!

Over the past couple of years we have seen the stability of the Flash uploader get really bad - and it is not coming from us; the reliability of Flash even when handling files of 50MB was really bad.
Browser crashes, uploads failing and slow transfers are what we have had to put up with…
Not anymore - we’ve been working on a Java uploader, the same technology Facebook has used, it’s much more reliable and will allow us to handle bigger and bigger files.

2Big2Send Infrastructure

We have used Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) since the beginning and have not had any reliability issues; so it made sense to move our servers into Amazon’s Cloud offering (EC2) as well.
We have noticed a considerable speed increase on our staging servers since the move. 

So when is this coming?

Very soon - we are in the final stages of getting it all tied together, so for now here is a screen shot of what is to come!