A few weeks ago we experienced what would turn out to be the first in a series of scaling issues with Mailroom when our search engine crashed. Since we launched Mailroom a few months ago, we have handled just shy of 250,000 emails for customers. This number grows at a rate of several thousand per day.

It turns out there are not very many search engines that can handle even this kind of growth, let alone when we get to the million of email mark we expect to reach in the next few months. We had to do something.

After several weeks of testing, we’ve rolled out our new search engine. This engine is faster and better able to scale with Mailroom as we grow. Many thanks for Shanti for his hard work in putting together this new engine.

Read the full details here. If you don’t have a Mailroom account yet, you can create a free account.

This new search engine is the first in a series of performance enhancements we are working on right now. We’ll be announcing our other improvements soon, so stay tuned.