February 9, 2008
As part of our final push toward the AcuInvoice commercial release, we have implemented offsite backups to Amazon.com’s Simple Storage Service (S3). Think of this a Time Machine, but for your AcuInvoice data. These backups store your AcuInvoice data and user configuration files for the past ten days. Backups will be for all accounts—both free and paid—so you can have confidence that your data is backed up on one of the most stable, secure, and redundant IT infrastructures in the world. If you ever accidentally delete data, or for any reason need to roll back to a prior version of your AcuInvoice account, simply contact support and we will be happy to recover your invoice data and user configuration files.
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January 17, 2008
Having just announced the release of the final beta version of AcuInvoice, it seems appropriate to detail the new features and enhancements soon to be introduced in our 1.0 release. Our remaining to-do list for the 1.0 release is quite short, and most are backend items that won’t meaningfully alter the user experience. Still, a few are worth noting, and details are provided below. Posts describing plans for AcuInvoice 1.1 and beyond are soon to follow.
Incremental Backups Powered by Amazon Web Services
We’re sold on Amazon Web Services. We currently use Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) as an offsite backup solution for our internal files and have decided to use S3 as a means of providing AcuInvoice subscribers an added level of security. Concurrent with the 1.0 release, we will be implementing a script that conducts nightly incremental offsite backups of your AcuInvoice database and configuration files to Amazon S3. This backup is in addition to, not a replacement for, the redundancy already provided by our server’s RAID configuration. S3 resides on one of the world’s most secure, robust, and redundant IT infrastructures, and we are happy to provide this added level of data redundancy to our subscribers.
Optimize Invoice Printing
For those who snail mail their invoices, we will be implementing minor changes to the invoice print format.
Unified Search Solution
Our blog, forum, and marketing site are all powered by different technologies. Additionally, we will soon initiate the development of comprehensive documentation (possibly via another CMS), which will increase our need for efficient, accurate search. While each platform has an available internal search function, it would require some hacking to build a function that works site-wide. We are therefore implementing Google’s Custom Search Engine to allow users to locate relevant content regardless of its location on the AcuInvoice domain. Why hack when you can just use Google?
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