Site Version 1.2 Rolled Out Today

Launched the following features / enhancements today. We are through the majority of the beta tester feedback, finally!

Front end:

• You can now edit your email, name and password
• Browse by universities as well as states
• Ability to see streetviews and add to favorites while browsing the map
• Outbound listings will now open in a separate tab/window
• Houses for rent can be filtered out of the search results
• Distance from the center of the search location are shown on the search results
• Displaying the cities alphabetically going down the columns rather than across (harder than you might think!)
• Redirect back to where you came from if you are forced to log in
• Check for browsers to make sure they have cookies and active x enabled

Behind the scenes:

• Moved to an on-demand cloud hosting environment at Mosso/Rackspace so we can easily scale
• Implemented server-side and client side caching and a content delivery network to really get these pages loading faster. We have already cut our bandwidth out by 75%