Great news from ePriority development! ePriority will be installing its second major software release and hardware upgrade early next week. This release is a product of many months of hard work and brings with it a number of noteworthy improvements:

Improved Performance
E-mail delivery has been increased from 60,000 to more than 430,000 messages per hour. (Based on 1k message delivered from development to production -- we may see an improvement when installed in production.)

No Single Points of Failure
Long awaited load balancing functionality will be installed, completing our initial architecture design. With this last critical technology in place, ePriority will be free of any single points of failure. (Note that this does not pertain to the Personal Data Center product.)

Reduced Outage Risk
As most everyone knows, our single biggest source of outages has been due to database problems. With this release of ePriority, no database connectivity will be required for core processing and delivery services. ePriority will focus on using its database for managing batch statistics and client accounts.

Stabilized Logging
Only two outages have resulted in loss of data. Both of these were due to a dependency on Solaris system logging (Syslog), which has not been tolerant of high volume. ePriority will now be using its own system to ensure that we are logging as fast as we can -- without the risk of data loss.

Much more is in store for ePriority in the upcoming months. Now that we can process E-Trade's mail in two hours (compared to previous processing times upward of 14 hours), we can begin adding the features necessary to attract high volume clients:

Batch Statistics Reporting
Clients will be able to watch processing statistics in real-time from our client website. Batch-level information important to accounting people will also be readily available.

Link Tracking
Clients can choose to have web links in their messages tracked. This feature will also include opt-in/opt-out management.

Re-delivery Configuration
Clients can customize the number of re-attempts and time to wait between attempts for each batch.

Delivery Throttling
With increased speed comes a greater need for better control. Configuring a maximum number of e-mail messages per domain will soon be available. And we're just getting started...