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We actually did a fairly major code upgrade today, unfortunately it led to a few minutes of downtime. We hadn’t planned on the outage but the team pulled through and got the servers back on their feet in good time. I apologize if anyone was affected by the outage.
This major code upgrade is […]

One of our two data centers (two different hosting providers) lost network connectivity recently and we’ve been dealing with the repercussions of that event. You may experience some grazr site and widget hiccups while we sort out moving our traffic to different machines. I apologize if this is causing any problems for anyone.

It’s been a long time since I’ve had to write a server update, we’ve taken the reliability of our back end *very* seriously and I’d like to think people have noticed. Other than the occasional network hiccup, our system has been extremely solid for many months now. Unfortunately we’ve been in full on firefighting mode […]

With the launch of our new site our site I thought I’d take a second to highlight our new database architecture.
We’re really serious about the integrity of the data people are entrusting us to hold so we’ve built a pretty robust system. Patrick Galbraith (aka Capt Tofu), our database architect and all around database […]

Check out Grazr.com, we’ve taught it to do some new tricks! One of the support questions we’ve gotten many times is, “yes I realize my desktop feed reader outputs OPML, but where can I put it so that grazr can use it?” (well I’m paraphrasing). Up until know we haven’t had a very good answer […]

I’m proud to announce the beta for GrazrScript, a programming language for feeds! When we’ve talked about what Grazr is in the past, we’ve often enigmatically used the phrase “an application development system for feeds” without truly describing what that means. GrazrScript represents one of the significant elements we’ve been working on towards making that […]

I’ve noticed that some people have gone ahead and changed their installs to point to the new ‘preview’ version of grazr on their websites. It’s really encouraging that people like it enough to manually hack an install and are confident enough in us to trust our ‘pre release’ version.
While we don’t have any blocks preventing […]

Unfortunately, we lost one of our data centers today at around noon (our automated health system alerted us at 12:06) which brought down several of our servers simultaneously (apparently the hosting service is having power problems). We’ve had to deal with hosting problems before so we’ve not only built up our capacity, but also designed […]

Last week we brought online the first phase of our new network infrastructure. This is exciting news for us not only because it provides significantly more power but more importantly, that power takes the shape of of geographically separated, mirrored servers. We spent the weekend transitioned to the new system and watched the load on […]

With the recent investment and the re-making of Grazr into a company, Grazr now has significantly greater resources than when it was just me. With the additional resources we’ve begun setting up a very robust network plan. In the plan we’re more than tripling our server capacity, utilizing two data-centers on either coast for redundancy, […]