Wednesday, May 10, 2006

Indexmysite re-imagined and re-hosted

Sometimes circumstances force you to get better. Such was the case for Indexmysite - our remote site indexing and search service. Indexmysite has been servicing customers for almost 10 years, providing great ad-free search capability for sites large and small. The site is almost totally self-sustaining allowing users to create new accounts, index websites, and control such things as 'which pages get indexed' and 'when indexes get refreshed'.

For these last 10 years, the service and website has been hosted on a 2-processor server in Pleasanton California. While providing good service, we've wanted to increase the server's performance and also make our service and support more robust. But the old adage - "if it ain't borke, don't fix it" - prevailed.

But all things eventually end and the server host finally gave up the ghost (so to speak). So we decided to move Indexmysite to a new server farm in Atlanta. The newer facility provides powerful 4-processor xenon servers, 24/7 support and a full regimine of IT capabilities not available to us before. We can now offer our customers an even stronger committment to 100% uptime and great customer support. Plus, indexing and searches are considerably faster.

Of course, moving the server meant making some drastic changes to the front-end. So we redesigned the website to make it more inviting and easier to use. We said farewell to an old design which had served us faithfully for 10 years and embarked on a newer, fresher Indexmysite.

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