Recently we've made some important changes we wanted to tell you about.

Network Improvement

The first is improving our network performance through better peering. As some of you may be aware if you've looked up our DNS records we use Cloudflare as our internet edge network partner.

This means before your requests reach our servers they first go through the Cloudflare infrastructure which is made up of 150 or so servers around the globe. Their goal is to have a server in every major city by the end of this year which would cover 95% of human civilisation.

As part of the Cloudflare service they have a paid sub-service called Argo which essentially funnels traffic between Cloudflare servers within a virtual private network over the lowest latency and highest bandwidth internet links available to Cloudflare.

When companies (like us) have Argo enabled it means your data first connects to a Cloudflare server closest to you, hopefully within the same city as you. And from there it only travels along Cloudflare servers around the world until it gets to one of our server nodes.

The end result is significantly lower latency for some connections. Argo is smart enough to determine if a connection will be faster through a native connection (You -> Cloudflare -> Plain Internet -> Us) or through Cloudflares Argo network (You -> Cloudflare -> Cloudflare -> Us).

So what are the benefits like? Well as you may be aware all of our three nodes are currently in Europe. We're planning to add one in North America and Asia but until we do so we're leaning on Argo to get faster peering for our customers that live outside of Europe. With Argo enabled we've been able to reduce our average Time To First Byte (TTFB) from 542ms to 382ms (29.52% improvement) which is a considerable difference when you consider we're handling millions of queries per day.

We love Cloudflare they're a great company that make a business like ours possible, we highly recommend them.

Customer Dashboard

The second change we wanted to discuss is something customers have been requesting for a while, the ability to update their card information without cancelling their current subscription. We're sorry it has taken us this long to implement this important feature but today we have made it available to all customers that hold a currently active subscription. Below are two screenshots showing what subscribed users see.

When clicking that update card details button you'll receive a simple model for you to enter your updated card details as shown below.

You may also notice that we altered the cancellation text to be a bit clearer. Now it explains when you request a manual change to your subscription tier we can prorate that change. So if you downgrade mid-way through your subscription we can refund you the difference and if you upgrade to a higher tier you'll receive a discount that takes into account how much you've already paid.

Thanks for reading!