After toying with the idea of a public alpha, we’ve decided to keep RSS Mixer private for now. We’re still working through issues concerning performance and scalability — even with a modest number of feeds (we currently have 11,169), we’ve handled as many as 3 million posts.

Just last week, we moved the alpha server over to a new host. We’re now using Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). This will help us serve many visitors (if they come), but we are still sorting out some of the database issues that come with a system that contains millions of records. If you’d like an invite to the private alpha, please send us an email: rssmixer [at] ideum.com. We just ask that you are willing to share some feedback about the site. We’ll be posting a launch update in March.

This entry was posted on Friday, February 29th, 2008 at 1:11 pm by Jim Spadaccini and is filed under RSS, Web 2.0 Sites, rss mixer. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.