Yottaa Gets $9M for "Anti-Lean" Startup Approach

Re:Yottaa Gets $9M for "Anti-Lean" Startup Approach by taligent on Tuesday May 22, 2012 @09:11AM (#4007602)

Never actually heard of this company before but they seem to be playing in a great space IMHO. It seems to be a combination of Cloudflare, Pingdom, Akamiai and New Relic. And for many sites having to have accounts with them all is a hassle.

Now if they could only combine a vulnerability scanner as well ...

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Re:Yottaa Gets $9M for "Anti-Lean" Startup Approach by mildweed on Tuesday May 22, 2012 @09:55AM (#4007788)

I use Yottaa as a band-aid for inherited websites at my agency. When a client comes to us, asks us to rebuild their site and take over their old site in the mean time, we use Yottaa to speed the heck out of their poorly-hosted, poorly written previous site.

Also, don't be confused when the sales guys call and say they're from "Yoda". The space muppet is the correct way to pronounce yotta, the SI prefix.

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Re:Yottaa Gets $9M for "Anti-Lean" Startup Approach by retube on Tuesday May 22, 2012 @10:05AM (#4007831)

how does yottaa actually speed up websites? does it involve shifting your website to their platform/severs?

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Re:Yottaa Gets $9M for "Anti-Lean" Startup Approach by brk on Tuesday May 22, 2012 @10:13AM (#4007869)

(Currently using/testing the product).

No, you don't shift anything to their servers. They give you a long/funky CNAME that you use for your www.foo.com DNS record. So basically all your web traffic is going through their servers, and they "intelligently" cache static content and/or distribute it through a CDN.

It works fairly well and is painless to deploy (mostly, had some minor issues at first).

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