Another server, new presets

Since the beginning, Da Button Factory had been running on a single server. While there was no problem keeping up with the load, this situation was not so great regarding availability: if the server had an issue, dabuttonfactory.com could experience downtime; there was no redundancy.

To alleviate that risk, we have been testing serving dabuttonfactory.com using two computers, the original one located in France and a new server in north America.
So far so good after a few weeks of trial, so we made the switch today to fully run on this dual server, redundant architecture.

As a side-effect of this, our american users will experience reduced latency and higher speed. Our capacity also doubled; as a result, we raised some API limits :-)

And to celebrate all this, we added three button presents on the Examples page:

Hope you like them!

Video tutorials

I found out that Eduardo Amorim just made a YouTube video presenting Da Button Factory, in portuguese. Thanks to him!

This nicely complements the english-speaking Da Button Factory video tutorial made by Bob Chambers. This one is linked from the Info page, and although it presents an older version of the button generator, it is still quite accurate as the button maker works globally the same nowadays.

And in case you didn’t know it, there is also a short soundless video showing how to embed a button on Wordpress (also linked from the Info page, in the “How do I embed a button on my website and make it clickable?” section).