Browshot blog

We've been working hard over the past couple of months to provide a new version of the Browshot website. We didn't want to put just a new skin on the existing website. We wanted to build the foundation of a better, more user-friendly, website and dashboard.

Try the new version at https://beta.browshot.com/.

It shares the same back-end as the main website. Use your current credentials to login. Any screenshot you use will count towards your balance.

We'd love to get your feedback. I hope you'll find the new dashboard easier to use.

We will keep making improvements to the new website. We plan on switching to the new version in a couple of weeks. We will keep improving it based on your feedback.

Try https://beta.browshot.com/ today.

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Update: the upgrade has been canceled.

We have scheduled an upgrade of Browshot on Saturday February 7th, 2015 at 8:30pm PST until 10:30pm PST. We expect about no more than 30 minutes of downtime. During this time, the website and the API may return errors.

This is the last step in upgrading our database to a cluster of 3 database servers.

We will post updates on this post during the maintenance window.

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We have set up two external websites:

• http://status.browshot.com/: check the status of the Browshot website and API. You can subscribe to the RSS feed and e-mail alerts to get notified about outages and scheduled maintenance. This website is updated manually.
• http://uptime.browshot.com/: detailed up-time of browshot.com and api.browshot.com measured every minute by a third party.

You can find additional information on Browshot's network architecture and monitoring at https://browshot.com/status.

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We have released a new version of the Perl, PHP, Ruby and Python libraries. They work with the latest version of the Browshot API (1.14). All the unit tests are fully working and their documentation have been updated.

All libraries source code is available on github and on their language-specific repository for easier installation:

• Perl: CPAN
• PHP: Packagist (new)
• Python: PyPi
• Ruby: Rubygems

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We have scheduled an upgrade of Browshot on Friday January 16th, 2015 at 8:30pm PST until 11:30pm PST. We expect about 30 minutes of downtime. During this time, the website and the API may return errors.

This is the first step in upgrading our database to a cluster of 3 database servers. Another maintenance window will be scheduled 2 weeks later.

We will post updates on this post during the maintenance window.

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• 8:30pm PST: upgrade started, website and API are down.
• 8:45pm PST: database server migrated and restarted.
• 8:54pm PST: website and API are working on 2 core servers. Private instances are unavailable.
• 9:01pm PST: all core servers are running, private instances are available.

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