Archive for the ‘Technical’ Category
Thursday, January 29th, 2009
We have some important news here at QuickShare. On Monday the 2nd of February we will be moving QuickShare over to a dedicated server (hosted in SA 
) which will help us improve our service in the following ways:
- Improve upload and download speed and general performance. Since the site will be hosted on its own server, QuickShare will not have to share resources with other websites.
- Position QuickShare for growth and scalability.
- Provide better security and flexibility for us to explore ways of improving and adding value to the service.
- Reduce costs. While the initial cost of hosting a dedicated server is substantially higher, the cost of bandwidth is significantly lower than the shared accounts of most reputable hosts.
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Tags: dedicated server, hosting, infrastructure, move, transfer, transition
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Friday, November 21st, 2008
We have a bit of a dilemma…
We aboslutely love doing what we do but we are faced with a major catch-22 in that hosting QuickShare in South Africa has become prohibitively expensive. This is because the cost of bandwidth is easily 600 times more expensive in South Africa than what it is in the USA or Europe. For the price of 1MB here we can get 683MB on a popular hosting service based in the UK.
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Tags: bandwidth, costs, dilemma, hosting, infrastructure
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Thursday, November 13th, 2008
As some of you may know we have had some issues with our registration system for a while. I am very pleased to let you all know that it is finally fixed and fully functional.
Registration is now open on the main site.
Thank you for your patience!
QuickShare Team
Tags: fixed, registration, sign-up, system
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Wednesday, November 12th, 2008
Data Loss
Recently, we had a bit of a catastrophe on the technical front. We don’t want overwhelm you with unnecessary details, but the short story is that in the end we lost a small portion of our database and as a result we lost exactly 8 files. These files were uploaded between the 5 Nov – 10 Nov. This is not what we’re about and we are taking huge measures to ensure that an incident like this does not happen again! We want to extend a sincere apology to any members who have been affected. If you have been affected please read on:
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Tags: database, glitches, issues, lost files, registration
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