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Personal data management tools for GDPR requests
As promised, by May 25 we are releasing tools to help you find and then export or delete personal data requested by your end users.
We cleaned up the user homepage a bit as you can see below. If there's a new blog post within the last 30 days, the link/title is in the top right corner. This gives more room to the main links on the left, which are now in a single row instead of 2 rows. A bit easier on the eyes. And the link to manage personal data requests is in the "Your web sites" area. Couldn't come up with a good icon for it since we already had a "person" icon for the sub-users link, so we just used a turtle which we had lying around because hey it's cute.
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GD;PR
Hello there! It's been way too long!
As the May 25 deadline for GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) approaches, we've been getting a lot of questions about it. So without further ado:
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Infrastructure upgrades and migrations
The last 6 months, we have been extraordinarily busy with a major infrastructure upgrade that will make Clicky much faster and more resilient. This is by far the most major backend upgrade in our (almost) 10 year history. A lot of planning and testing has gone into this and we're excited to finally be under way with the database aspect. Our load balancers have already been on the new infrastructure for a month now, and web and tracking servers will follow up after the databases are done.
The database maintenance in late April was in prep for this migration, to make it as fast as possible. This weekend we will be doing 8 database servers – 6, 22, 28, 29, and 59-62. And each weekend thereafter we plan to do at least 20 more. We have 85 total database servers at the moment so we should be done or at least very close to it by the end of June.
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HTTP/2, sticky table headers, tracking code fixes
No posts for a few months so I figured I'd group a couple of things into a single post.
Last summer we migrated to Nginx for load balancing and it's been fantastic. A few months later, Nginx released support for HTTP/2, which I've been salivating over ever since. We recently acquired some new servers that are much higher end than the ones we were using before. We migrated load balancing to these and took the opporunity to update Nginx to the latest and greatest while we were at it. This means we're now live on HTTP/2 across the board – our own load balancers, plus our CDN (Cloudflare).
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Filter out traffic based on country, organization, referrer, and more!
Some of the most requested features we get are to filter out all traffic from specific organizations, and filter out all traffic from specific countries (or only log traffic from specific countries, for "hyper local" sites). For the countries thing, we used to link people to an old blog post, since deleted, that showed how to do this; however, that stopped working a year or two ago when Maxmind killed their javascript API.
Well, no fret! These types of filters, and more, are now officially supported directly from the new "Visitor tags and filters" site preference page.