Site and forum optimized for speed

Posted by Mehdi Hasan on September 7, 2010

We are well aware of the slow net connectivity problem in Bangladesh (and sufferer, too). After moving to a new host, we realized that our site isn’t optimized enough to utilize the power of the new hardware. Arif bhai (currently working for Google) insisted us to work on this issue and gave us hints on where to start. Despite of the saying “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” ;) , Rifat and me engaged ourselves in further optimizing the whole site for more robust content delivery for last few days.
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Moved to a new VPS hosting

Posted by Mehdi Hasan on August 28, 2010

It has been a disaster after we released updated Avro Keyboard 4.5.3. 80GB bandwidth of our previous hosting plan went over all of a sudden. We did take all precautions to avoid this incidence- removed download link from our main server and added four different mirrors, but in vain. The site went down for 2 days and 20 hours!

We did learn our lesson. We realized how popular Avro Keyboard is becoming everyday. And despite of the disastrous consequence, that was a great inspiration for us to move forward!
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