Tag: server

We’ve got brand new servers (again!)

You might have noticed a tiny little bit of downtime late at night on Wednesday… well, it was technically very very early Thursday morning, I guess. 🙂

We have once again upgraded our server grid to an even more powerful configuration because of all the love you guys are showing us… We wanted to do it as painlessly for you as possible which is why we started the upgrade process around 1:15 AM New York time — hopefully you weren’t still working that late at night!

Anyway, Spin Rewriter is now running on even more powerful & even more optimized hardware, and our entire team is hoping you will love Spin Rewriter’s improved speed and responsiveness even more. 😀

Thank you for being such enthusiastic users of Spin Rewriter!

Spin Rewriter’s servers just got even faster!

As you guys know, Spin Rewriter’s popularity has been absolutely exploding ever since we released version 1.0 all the way back in September 2011.

2013 and — especially! — 2014 have been simply amazing and we’ve been signing up new users at an incredible rate. However, as the saying goes: with a great number of users comes great responsibility. 😀

Between our users using the website interface and our API to spin their articles, we’re now processing literally thousands of articles every single hour. In order to keep our servers responsive and snappy, our tech team’s been working like crazy the last couple of weeks, fine-tuning all of our server-side code and deploying extra servers.

I’m incredibly excited to say that we were able to reduce the average server load by more than 30%, and Spin Rewriter’s user interface is now more responsive than ever!

We hope you like this behind-the-scenes update as much as we do! And thank you for being our members! 😀

We OPTIMIZED our servers in a big way

Spin Rewriter has been incredibly popular among Internet Marketers as of late — even more so than it usually is!

This means we’ve been signing on new users like crazy, and our existing grid of powerful servers started to take a significant hit with all the spinning requests coming in all of the time… At the moment our servers need to process more than one spinning request per second, or over 85,000 spinning requests every single day.

That’s 85,000 new articles every day… that need to be processed on a word and phrase basis, to determine the exact meaning of every word and phrase among a multitude of different options… and then all those meanings need to have synonyms assigned based on the context of the article… and this is maybe 20% of what’s actually going on in the background before we can reliably deliver top-quality spun articles to our users.

As you can imagine, even a grid of powerful servers will start to lose the battle when faced with such a huge workload… unless these servers and the software they are running is optimized to the fullest!

Our entire tech team has been working crazy hard for more than 2 weeks now, fine-tuning all of our servers and all of our back-end code… and it makes me extremely happy to say we were able to bring down our average server load a whopping 46% percent while we reduced the average size of Spin Rewriter’s database a further 27%.

Our servers are now happily serving all the incoming spinning requests without as much as breaking a sweat. Hooray! 😀

Upgrade of our servers

As I’m writing this, our technicians are rolling out another large update of our server grid.

With thousands (and I do mean thousands) of highly active new users our previous infrastructure started having some troubles keeping up, so we’re upgrading it.

Starting some time in the next half hour, our servers should be crazy responsive once again. 😉

P.S. Our websites may be unavailable for a couple of minutes during the next hour.

Thank you for your patience! 😉

Our services now have a DEDICATED server grid!

We have been running our loved-by-all article rewriting software Spin Rewriter and other popular services (article distribution tool Spin Distribute, a collection of webmaster tools called SmileySEO, our in-house writing service Pro Article Writing, etc.) on a very powerful server grid for more than a year now.

However, there were occassional hick-ups, and since Spin Rewriter has been launched back in September 2011 we’ve had two database crashes and a couple of other (minor) technical difficulties. All in all, our services were unavailable for 17-18 hours in the last 6 months. That’s not particularly cringeworthy, but we’re confident that we can do better than that.

So far, our services had to share the available resources on our servers with a couple of other websites that we run. Some of these websites are very popular, recording over a million of unique visitors each month, others are less popular and maybe more resource-hungry. Bottom line, sometimes all of this was a bit too much for our insfrastructure and that’s when our databases crashed and the websites went “down”.

We’ve now taken the BIG (and necessary) step, and moved all websites over to a separate server grid! This means that Spin Rewriter, Spin Distribute, Smiley SEO and Pro Article Writing are now the only software products on a dedicated set of servers, and this should improve the speed, the responsiveness, and the stability of these services even further! 😀

We’re really excited about this – and we think that you should be, too. 😉 😀