I come from a long line of farmers.  My great great grandfather "Fuddy" immigrated from Germany and started farming in central Wisconsin.  This tradition continued all the way to my father who grew up farming.  I never worked on a farm other than the ocassional throwing of hay bales. I can't say for certain but I'm willing to bet that the farming legacy went back much further than grandpa Fuddy.

This week I re-joined my fore-father ranks when Giveness switched our hosting environment to a Web Farm environment.  The word "farm" is the only similiarity between the 2 professions but I'll take what I can get. 

This switch is going to allow a much more stable experience for our Nonprofits and their supporters.  It will also allow us to scale our company much faster as we continue to grow and help more people.  Getting a web application to run on one machine is a pretty easy thing to do.  Getting a web application to run on two machines is pretty hard thing to do but once you figure that out, adding another server is relatively simple, or 15 servers for that matter.

It's been an exhausting week and quite tricky at times but it was worth the effort.  Giveness is now in a position where we can grow with the demmands of our users, and that's something that I would expect from any site that I used.