Upcoming downtime
January 10th, 2008 by AshwinThe new year has brought on a lot of accolades, tons of new users and a lot of great feedback. However, we also noticed a consistent refrain: Buxfer is very cool and useful, but it’s slow - particularly for our international users! Well, that’s no good and it can certainly be a show-stopper.
So, we bought a new very powerful machine and we will be migrating to that server on Sunday. The planned downtime is from 9pm PST to 12midnight PST. If you find Buxfer unavailable or behaving erratically during that time, please cut us some slack :)
This is just the first step towards enhancing the performance of our system. We know there are quite a few places where we can optimize a lot. We will not stop until our interface is as responsive as GMail, for example, is.
Update: The migration has happened, folks, and we definitely feel a speed difference. Do you find Buxfer to be faster? Whatever the verdict, let us know so we will know what’s working and what isn’t!


January 10th, 2008 at 3:58 pm
Hey Buxfer Guys!
Matching GMail’s speed is a very neat benchmark! :)
I love GMail and Buxfer will be next in my list soon!
Best luck!
Niranjan
January 10th, 2008 at 7:23 pm
No worries guys…Keep the new features and updates coming.
January 11th, 2008 at 11:47 am
Congratulations on the release; Buxfer is very cool. I’m with the Gears team and if you have any questions or comments feel free to contact me.
Best,
Brad Neuberg
January 13th, 2008 at 4:09 am
Cool! another reason to love Buxfer more :D
January 14th, 2008 at 10:19 pm
I love Buxfer!. But after the migration I am seeing some weired things ..one of my transactions had a comments, which were sure not added by me :( ..Also the website still seems to be bit unstable ..clicking on some tabs it did nothing …I hope you are working these things to make every bodies experience much better !
good luck
-sandeep
January 19th, 2008 at 4:41 am
Sandeep,
I apologize for the inconvenience. The instability problems should be resolved now. If you are still facing them, can you please send us an email with the details of the problem at support [AT] buxfer? Thanks! :)
April 3rd, 2008 at 2:58 am
Solid! Class act, i am very impressed! ace