Home Services Engine manages a massive, Gossamer Links-powered database of over 800,000 home service listings which allows its users to find the type of business they’re looking for in their neighborhood.

Delivering search results relevant to a user’s location quickly when you’re dealing with 7 gigabytes worth of listings from across the United States is no easy task, but Home Services Engine manages to return local businesses quickly and efficiently every time. Here’s how they do it, and how Gossamer Threads helped.

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LoHud.com is a news and culture Web site serving the Hudson Valley in New York that hosts more than 50 blogs, including the LoHud Yankees Blog, which has been highlighted on ESPN and in Sports Illustrated. The site was experiencing a problem plenty of other sites would love to have: it was getting too much traffic, and was experiencing slow load times as a result.

Gossamer Threads’ experience in developing and troubleshooting high-traffic CMS installations proved to be the perfect solution to LoHud.com’s problem.

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It’s no secret that people are concerned about information security while doing business online. The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard is list of protective, preemptive measures enforced within organisations which process credit card payments.

So, what does PCI/DSS have to do with you?

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Gossamer Threads recently completed development on the relaunch of Malaysia.com. Designed to be the ultimate resource for Malaysian culture, cuisine and travel, Malaysia.com extensively uses Gossamer Links to deliver its content whether that’s in the form of hotel listings, recommended Malaysian dishes, or video galleries.

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Gossamer Threads is proud to unveil our hosted version of the powerful Bricolage CMS. When running on Gossamer Threads’ platform, the Bricolage application excels in speed and stability.

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