Keyvan Nayyeri

These days I’m not having good days neither in the social life nor in the personal life, nor in the professional life, to talk about celebration and happiness, but as a coincidence, it’s also the time for birthday anniversaries of my sites, family members, and friends!

However, after the fourth birthday anniversary of my blog, today I marked the first birthday anniversary of Waegis, my professional anti-spam service for modern spam types. I feel that the past year has gone fast to me, at least faster than ever, because I can’t believe it’s been a year since I launched Waegis and Phil Haack reported the first problem with user activation system in a few minutes!

I’ve detailed some points about the service in my original anniversary post on Waegis blog, but here I want to say that Waegis has been a different experience for me. The special development scenario with its own requirements and huge number of tips, techniques, and tricks that I used to optimize and set it up was just the beginning because following the launch of the service, I earned new experiences and faced with new requirements on the site to keep the ball its rolling. Although there have been some minor problems that are regular with all the similar services in this level, Waegis has had an excellent progress both in statistics and quality which put smile on my face to see the positive results of my changes.

Here for this specific service, I don’t care about the fast-growing number of hosted sites on Waegis, and the most important point to consider is the tricky modifications in spam rules and algorithms to scale up the software and help it have such an excellent jump in accuracy rate.

As I wrote in that blog post, I’m not planning any change in the software codebase unless I feel it’s necessary to keep the quality of the service or its scaling, but once I find a stable position in my life, I’m going to take some actions in order to give Waegis a better credit and promote it to a better place that it deserves on the web.

I stated on Waegis blog and repeat it here that I should thank Hamid Shojaee and Axosoft for sponsoring the service and their support that has had a huge impact on keeping the service up and running. Also I thank all my friends and users of the service for their support and valuable feedback, and hope they keep my back for the second year as well.