ReadBeam

The release of 0.9beta worked sufficiently smooth. Since the release the traffic on the site has doubled and caused all different kinds of challenges:

• Gmail, my current email provider, locks the account from time to time. Obviously some automated system gets triggered to avoid suspected abuse. Maybe it’s the sheer volume of mails (approx. 1GB daily!).
• The new possibility to download ebook-files directly has been met with great interest. Currently it is rather slow and expensive on my bandwidth. For the next release I’ll come up with a better solution. Most probably I will put the converted epub/mobi files on a CDN like Akamai or something.

Only one drawback sofar: I am not entirely sure that I can migrate your sources over to the new architecture. Or, at least currently, with rather small user numbers, I am not willing to put a lot of effort in migrating them if you could easily do that in five minutes.

But then again, if you see this is a huge problem, please let me know in the comments or via email: tom@readbeam.com.

Thanks and have a great weekend.