Category: Server Density Archive
- Seedcamp 2009 Winner ()
Originally published on the Server Density blog. As you may have read in the tech media yesterday (The Guardian, TechCrunch), Boxed Ice was one of 6 winners of Seedcamp Week 2009. Seedcamp Week is an intensive week-long event held in London every September and is targeted at young entrepreneurs from across EMEA. The aim of this week […]
- Choosing a non-relational database; why we migrated from MySQL to MongoDB ()
Originally published on the Server Density blog. Update 23 Oct 2010: A discussion about the value of shortened field nameshas generated a lot of traffic to this post over the last 24 hours. A response has been posted here. Update 28 Feb 2010: A followup was published here. Until recently, our server monitoring application, Server Density, was running using […]
- How to Build an Apple Push Notification Provider Server ()
This tutorial will go into code-level detail about how we built our push notification provider server to allow us to interact with the APNS and use the push notifications with our server monitoring iPhone application. Since we develop in PHP, our examples will be in PHP 5.
- Server Density launches ()
Originally published on the Server Density blog. Our server monitoring product, Server Density, launched into private beta on 9th March 2009, was made public on 6th April 2009 and we are now pleased to announce that the product has now officially launched as a commercial product. You can immediately add a payment card to your account […]
- Exposing hidden features ()
Originally published on the Server Density blog. I met Dave Stone at DrinkTank last night and talking about usability, he said something along the lines of “if you need to explain something to users in writing then it’s not usable”. That is very true and one of things we’ve been trying to do with our server monitoring application, Server Density, […]
- Barclays hates tech startups ()
Originally published on the Server Density blog. With the beta of our server monitoring application, Server Density, coming to an end, over the last few weeks I have been in contact with various banks in the UK to arrange a merchant account so that we can take payment for the service. I have written a follow-up to Daniel […]
- Mini Seedcamp London 2009 Finalist ()
Originally published on the Server Density blog. We are pleased to have been chosen as a top 20 finalist from over 100 startups from Europe to attend Mini Seedcamp London 2009. Mini Seedcamp is a Y Combinator style one day event that is running on Monday (20th April): Mini Seedcamp London will be bringing together 20 of the best seed […]
- Running a successful beta – trickle effect and phone feedback ()
Feedback is the ultimate goal. The strategy to achieving it is to have a small number of users you manually increase over time.
- Server Density ()
Originally published on the Server Density blog. We have just pushed live the website for our first product, Server Density. This is a server monitoring application that reports statistics using a small, lightweight Python agent that is installed on your servers. The website features a short, 2 minute demo video along with screenshots and details about […]