Great news we have after a lot of hard work behind the scenes we have managed to install a lot of our equipment in the Bunker, configure it all and now start to announce it across LINX via our routers in Telehouse North. To celebrate we have coded a small peering database and sent an email to all the LINX members to see if we can peer.

The response so far has been overwhelmingly positive which makes me really glad we joined LINX in the first place. At the rate we are going we may have over 100 sessions live tomorrow with a following wind and that would be great progress.

This means our sites should be quicker to load on all the providers who connect to us directly and we will be able to spider all the web sites we are starting to crawl at a lower cost which is great news on both counts.

We still have quite a way to go before we can announce our long awaited hosting service HostOn.it but things are progressing at a swift pace now and everything is looking positive.

In addition to the network engineering we have been doing we have also recently started work on a caching suite that we are going to deploy on all our web sites to reduce the bandwidth and connection overheads they create as well as optimising the HTML to speed load times even further. The suite of tools will optimise all our web sites eliminating the loading of unnecessary objects using user caching and other techniques. In our test environment it has yielded substantially faster load times on our web sites already.

I'm excited about all these developments because we have worked hard to make efficiency and process improvements inside Fubra for the past few years and it is great to see all the hard work which sometimes isn't as visible as a new feature or web site really paying off.