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We're all about Blue Box Group

Posted on Jun 18th, 2009 by Chris : Dreamer of the new Chris

You've likely seen updates in the past week about the transition of gaia.com to a new cluster/server host.  Well every single piece and every moving part had to somehow be moved by human hands, and... More »

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More performance yays

Posted on Jun 18th, 2009 by Chris : Dreamer of the new Chris

Gaia.com now gets a 97% (excellent) mark on the Apdex index (a measure of user satisfaction): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apdex That was in the 60-70s previously with EY (meaning the site response was poor to occasionally frustrating). And... More »

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How much faster is Gaia now?

Posted on Jun 16th, 2009 by Chris : Dreamer of the new Chris

6 times faster: See the Response Time column.  Monday and Tuesday were before our move, Wednesday-Sunday were after. For the geeks: Our rails solution was migrated from EngineYard to Blue Box Group . We left... More »

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We did it

Posted on Jun 11th, 2009 by Chris : Dreamer of the new Chris

The site is now running live on BlueBoxGroup servers, as of yesterday morning.  Mega kudos to Jesse and Stephen, and Ry and Franc from our team.  It could not have gone more perfectly. We've always... More »

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