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It’s been a couple of weeks since we launched our multiple data centers around the world and we hear you’ve noticed. Users are seeing up to a 25% boost in upload speeds from our website.
We just received an email from a customer yesterday who reported that he uploaded a 360 megabyte file in sixty seconds from Houston.
Just in time to send out those summer vacation videos!
So get to it!
http://www.yousendit.com
We’re a web company.
Well, okay, really we’re a Software-as-a-Service company.
("SaaS". It’s a new-ish term, but you’ll start hearing it more, trust us!)
As a SaaS company we’re aware that certain people will abuse our services. And while we do everything we can to prevent YouSendIt from being used for illegal or inappropriate purposes, we can’t do it alone.
We promote the use of our delivery services to individuals and businesses who want to save time, frustrations, and resources…. We are clean, safe, legal, and secure.
So far our customers have been really fantastic in helping to maintain the integrity of YouSendIt by reporting any abuse they may come across.
In fact, we have an email address specifically designated for this cause: Abuse@yousendit.com.
If you see anything of concern please let us know. And just in case you needed a refresher on our Terms of Service click here.
So, uhh… If you ever find yourself wondering if something is okay to send… It’s probably not.
It is your responsibility to ensure that all transactions comply with the YouSendIt Terms of Service policy.
And yes, YouSendIt reserves the right to take preventative and corrective actions to protect itself and our users, and we will of course, cooperate with law enforcement.
Thanks for helping us out! And as always, we love your feedback- feel free to weigh in on any topics, concerns, or features you’d like to address.
...Because we’re big fans of you, too!
Last week YouSendIt attended The Stanford Summit organized by Always On and Stanford Technology Venture Program. As we were recently an AO100 winner I was given the opportunity to tell our story and those of our customers alongside some of the most innovative companies in the world:
We were happy to see familiar faces and some old friends of YouSendIt there. We also had the privilege of making some new ones. Make sure to look for even more services from all of the AO100 companies to make you more productive on the web.
Ranjith Kumaran
Founder
I am very excited to announce the initial roll out of distributed storage solution that powers up our services.
Now, with multiple data centers around the world, we are able to provide a much improved data transfer experience to millions of our users. Our analysis shows that file transfer speed is a function of the distance to the data center (among other things). As you move farther the data center, your transfer speed drops 2 times every 1000 miles. Uploaders will particularly benefit from our distributed data centers because uploads are usually several times slower than downloads and any improvement in upload speed is much more noticeable.
Here is how it works... As a new data center is configured and is brought up, our turnkey solutions allows us to make it live without taking the site down. Immediately the new servers will start serving new requests for file transfers. But not just any requests - the traffic that is directed to the data center is selected based on IP mapping database. User IP is extracted from the request and the closest data center is selected to service this particular request. Combine this with our resumable upload enabled desktop application (available at http://www.yousendit.com/cms/standalone-app) and you will get a truly worry-free experience uploading very large files.
We are currently in the process of setting up more data centers. The selection of the locations for new data centers is based on careful analysis of YouSendIt usage patterns to provide an improved experience for our subscribers. Stay tuned for more news from the YouSendIt technology team!
Leonid Blyukher
VP of Engineering
www.yousendit.com
