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Disaboom.com Chooses Strangeloop™ AS1000 Application Scaling Appliance to Meet Performance Demands on Rapidly Growing ASP.NET Website
Growing Social Network for People with Disabilities Accelerates Web Application to Enhance User Experience
Disaboom.com is an online, interactive community designed for individuals with disabilities to share their experiences, seek and give personal advice, and locate trustworthy sources for “all types of life” issues ranging from rehabilitation advice to pain management to finding jobs to enriching family relationships. Unique in its approach as a social networking site combined with a reputable medical knowledge base, Disaboom.com has experienced unprecedented user growth since its launch in October 2007, nearly doubling its number of monthly unique visitors to over 500,000 within the last quarter.
“We are dedicated to building the most valuable and interactive online community for people with disabilities around the world, and that includes offering the most cutting edge applications and the fastest possible website for our growing number of users,” said Harry Brumleve, vice president of engineering at Disaboom.com. “The Strangeloop AS1000 immediately reduced our server workload, increased our website performance in a very tangible way in less than a day, and tremendously helped us scale for an exponentially growing customer base, without adding costly developer time or additional bandwidth or servers. It was an excellent and natural choice for us.”
The Strangeloop AS1000 appliance is the only solution on the market to automatically optimize web applications developed using the Microsoft ASP.NET framework. It sits in-line between a company’s web servers and the network, and automatically optimizes ASP.NET and AJAX traffic, in real-time, with no changes to code, datacenter or network infrastructure. At the heart of the Strangeloop AS1000 lies Strangeloop’s Choreography Engine™ – a heuristic tool that applies computing resources to key areas of ASP.NET and HTML performance and scalability problems. It carefully collects and analyzes traffic flow and data, and combines this real-time knowledge with optimization techniques to execute acceleration treatments. This traffic monitoring is perpetual, so the engine continually “learns” more and more about web traffic behavior and adds or changes the treatments accordingly, thus continually reducing payload sizes and browser and server compute times, resulting in decreased bandwidth needs and increased transaction capacity; ultimately ensuring optimal application performance at all times.
“Microsoft’s ASP.NET framework is exceptional and has given Disaboom.com the foundation to build an extremely valuable and worthwhile social networking site, so it’s not surprising that it attracts more and more users every day,” said Jonathan Bixby, chief executive officer of Strangeloop. “The AS1000 is a complementary, easy and low risk solution that ensures optimal ASP.NET application performance and scaling. This leaves Disaboom to focus on their core value proposition, which is to continue to provide the most comprehensive and interactive website for people with disabilities and those whose lives they touch.”
About Strangeloop Networks
The Strangeloop Networks products accelerate dynamic web applications with unique, framework-specific solutions that require minimal changes to software coding and hardware infrastructure, freeing developers to focus on providing enterprises with value-added features. With the Strangeloop AS1000 Application Scaling Appliance for Microsoft ASP.NET and AJAX and the Strangeloop WS1000 Web Services Accelerator, enterprises dramatically shorten code cycles, improve application performance and throughput, more efficiently use bandwidth, achieve greater return on their investment in information technology (IT) staff, network and computing resources and boost customer satisfaction. Strangeloop is based in Vancouver, B.C. For more information, visit www.strangeloopnetworks.com.
About Disaboom, Inc.
Disaboom, Inc. was founded as a dynamic, diverse, and interactive online community dedicated to constantly improving the way people with disabilities or functional limitations live their lives. It also serves as a comprehensive online resource not only for people living with such conditions, but also for their immediate families and friends, caregivers, recreation and rehabilitation providers, and employers. More than 54 million American adults live with disabilities or functional limitations today in the United States alone. Founded and designed by doctors and fellow disaboomers to meet this community's specific needs, www.disaboom.com brings together content and tools ranging from specialized health information to social networking to daily living resources, in a single interactive site. To join the community, visit www.disaboom.com.
