Mail, Mail, Mail.

At Globat, we've recently overhauled how the backend of our e-mail system works. Today, we have finished migrating the the last batch of customers. The entire process has been a pleasure and I am happy with the result. Our feeling here is that our customers should never have to worry about their mail being unavailable. Every time a customer clicks refresh to see if an important mail came, it should be there. Spam and Virus protection should be so easy and effective that it's taken for granted. We also want to give as many choices possible to customers on how to read and manage their email. We believe the webmail interface should be beautiful, intuitive and slick to use.

I am happy with our platform, and have been hearing great things from our customers.

Here are a few more details of what the new Globat e-mail platform includes:

1) Total Protection - Filtering nearly all spam and viruses out.
2) Ajax Webmail - Having a webmail that looks like Outlook, and responds quickly.
3) No Ceilings - Allowing for increased space utilization and the ability to send large attachments
5) Options - The ability to connect how you want: IMAP, POP, or Webmail. Works with Blackberry, iPhone, Outlook, Thunderbird, Trio, and iMail.
6) Encryption - 128-Bit SSL encryption securing Webmail, IMAP, POP, and authenticated SMTP connections.
7) Delivery Assurance - Daily testing of delivery reports to major carriers.
4) Blacklist Delivery Prevention - Real-time 24/7 blacklist monitoring and preventing to ensure fast delivery.

Enjoy.

-Chris Ueland / President, Globat.com

Performance Hosting

My team and I spend a lot of time talking about website performance. I've been doing a lot of research on ways to measure and improve website performance.

Globat's entire dev team now runs YSlow. It is based off of the FireBug Firefox extension. It gives us an objective view of how our services are performing as well as getting into the real opportunities for increasing our customers' website performance.

One of the ways we are investigating increasing performance is using reverse caching techniques at the edge of our network to cache frequently accessed files. We're seeing initial tests with cache hits as high as 75% for certain sites. This cuts down latency and speeds up delivery of websites to the visitors of our customers websites. I'm seeing performance gains as higher than 100%. For example, a site which takes 3.84 seconds to load (which has 30 jpeg thumbnails) cuts down to 1.28 seconds - with out any optimization of the client's site.

As our front end test progress, I look forward to bringing this speed to our customer base. We're on the cutting edge of shared hosting and delivery speed is on the front of our agenda.


-Chris Ueland / President, Globat.com