It’s been a little quiet here because we’re really busy working on some cool new features for Mailroom. In the meantime, though, we found some time to deploy some new servers last week, which has made Mailroom really zippy.

For those of you that are interested in such things, in addition to deploying new servers we also switched from an older configuration using lighttpd and fastcgis to one using pound, mongrel, and memcached. These new components for Rails-based environments really rock. Mongrel is very fast and stable and memcached has reduced our database load dramatically.

In in the end, our servers are now running at only about 25% capacity thanks to these new changes. If you haven’t tried it since we launched Mailroom 2, now is definitely the time to take a look.

(We also rolled out a new blogging system today, which should take care of the comments and trackback spam that was cluttering up our blog. Thanks Mephisto)