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Update: See our iPad Portfolio page with the latest announcements!

We’ve already shared our enthousiasm about the iPad. We can now tell you that Viewbook is in the process of creating a native iOS portfolio app for the iPad and iPhone that syncs with your Viewbook Albums.

A couple of key requirements we’ve formulated are:

• The option to store Albums locally so you can view them offline, without an internet connection.
• A nice visual overview with big thumbs of all your locally stored Albums.
• The option to set a default portfolio that opens as soon as you launch the app, so you can directly show your work without first looking up which album you want to show.
• The option to easily email a link to the online version of your album/portfolio.

Do you already use your iPad or iPhone to show your work? What are your experiences? Do you have other ideas that would make it ideal for you?

Let us know in the comments.

About a month ago we’ve moved our applications to bigger servers. Starting with our upload servers followed by the services that deliver your websites.

We use a monitoring tool called Pingdom that monitors our servers 24 hours a day. It checks if all runs well, when not I get a sms message, which actually can be in the middle of the night. Pingdom also creates insightful graphics about the response time of our users websites.

You can see (in the figure above) that the load time peaked at 600ms to 1000ms at the end of June and beginning of July. We believe the load time should not be more that 500ms (half a second). So we decided to speedup the websites by moving to faster servers. We run all our servers in the Amazon AWS cloud and benefit from the standards that are created by the big Amazon.com. We moved to 7.5GB 4 core instances and the load time went down to around 360ms, which is pretty fast!