Archive for January, 2011

Ascension into the Cloud – Part 1

Tuesday, January 25th, 2011

We are working hard to add features, scalability and performance to fuelmileage.com.  Our goal for 2011 is to release an updated version of our hosted software every month! January’s release will go live towards the end of this month and will contain a lot of features and updates for our Fuel Mileage Pro version which enables the mileage tracking and service tracking modules. If your interested in evaluating either module or just want more information click here and complete the form so we can enable these modules for your existing account.

With the new features and functionality our site is offering we have decided that our current hosting solution isn’t going to give our users the experience they want and deserve. We have been researching multiple solutions over the last month and have decided that we are moving our service into the cloud,  the Amazon cloud to be specific. We will be utilizing Amazons Ec2 cloud server product while leveraging Scalr’s platform to bring enhanced reliability and scalability to our site/service. Over the next month we will be migrating everything over to the new platform.

What does this means to all of our members? You will notice the speed of our website, mobile site, iPhone app ( yes its coming in February) and Android app increase significantly. It also means as we grow our user base you won’t see a decrease in speed and performance.

I will be posting updates throughout the month so check back later for more  information as we assend FuelMileage.com into the cloud.

Thanks,

Shawn

CEO / Co-Founder / Developer