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[[ Stronger ]]

We’d like to conclude our 5-part series reflecting on our past year with this final entry on our increased reliability. Yep, hopefully, through these few posts, you’ll have more insight as to why sgBEAT is now Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger.

In this new installment, we’d like to share how we’ve made our service ‘stronger’ and more resilient to downtime.

Increased reliability.

We’ve beefed up all our gateways (SMS, MMS and Twitter/Facebook/Plurk) with a message queue system. This feature allows us to reliably queue your SMSes or tweets for later delivery even when portions of our server or the Twitter website is down. You don’t have to fear losing any of the beats you send (at least in the areas within our control).

A more reliable system:

Premium gateway.

We’ve added a new premium SMS gateway for our loyal power users. Aptly named Beatific by one of our Rockstars, this premium gateway consists of two different modems with the same number on two continents across the globe. If either gateway were to go down due to internet connectivity or power issues, the system automatically failovers to the other gateway allowing seamless and continuous delivery of your SMSes. (Note: This premium gateway is only available for our Rockstars right now. Be one today!)

The location of our gateways:

View sgBEAT Gateways in a larger map

Lots of monitoring.

Tons of monitoring have been added to our service this milestone. We now are completely aware of our services’ uptime and are automatically alerted by email if anything goes down so we can start repairs immediately. Most of you would also have received SMS alerts when we had gateway outages. We also keep our Status page updated in real-time about the state of our system. Bookmark that page today!

Status page that shows you sgBEAT’s health:

Yours,
The sgBEAT Team

P.S. As always, do let us know how we can improve through our feedback channels at support@sgbeat.com and our Facebook and Twitter pages.

P.P.S Stay tuned for sgBEAT v0.6!