The Qik Blog

We are hosted on Dreamhost PS (private server). On 24th July 2009 we were not able to FTP to the server. We contacted support and waited patiently for a reply. Some how the user associated with the domain was moved to regular hosting and there was no way of reverting it back. For a week [...]

It took us a while to get this working right but we are good to go. The all new statistics page is now live [You need to be logged in to access stats]. Apart from drastically upgrading the design, we have added graphs and more meta data for each URL which is shortened. So now [...]

HTML has been our pain point for a while now. Designs been ready for a while but slicing them has been taking ages. With every delay at our end we see some new url shortening service come up. Its been a nightmare.
Yesterday we went live with our new registration page and the new text page. [...]

Its been a while since i have updated this blog.
Work has been going on at furious pace. We have shown the product to a couple of our friends and got tons of feedback on the UI, Functionality and ofcourse the bugs.
We have completely revamped the UI. Designs are ready for slicing. We have added a [...]

It seems everyone wants to come up with their URL shortner service. We have made substansial progress with our testing. Were able to patch some bugs.
Our main issue now is scalability and performance. Currently we are hosted at DreamHost but i am not at all confident about it. Looking at different options from SliceHost to [...]