Okay, we can admit it: performance over the holiday season was slower than we'd like.

We've been adding channels, video sources and user data at a blistering rate, which is great. But when you're looking for videos with a specific mix of keywords and the pile of data you have to sort through approaches 100 million records... well, the needle gets smaller and the haystack gets a whole lot bigger. So we've been a bit pokey lately.

Today we're pleased to announce that we've upgraded to a new, more powerful primary database server. With double the memory of our prior server, plus twice as many disks, responses times are faster, and timeouts or "server busy" messages are a thing of the past -- unless our traffic doubles again overnight (we've got our eye on it)... But for now, it appears we've got a bit of running room on this new configuration, so it's all good.

Thanks again for your patience, and for your role in Magnify's continued growth.