Below is a brief guest column Mike Trotzke, CEO of Cheddar, wrote for our local newspaper, The Herald Times. I thought you might be interested in checking it out. From limestone quarries and furniture factories to Indiana University and Cook Group, Bloomington’s economy has had a variety of drivers over the years. Now, we see […]

Hey Cheddar friends, fans, and customers – You may have noticed we have a new domain name, GetCheddar.com! Most everyone refers to us as just ‘Cheddar’ already, so we decided to remove the ‘getter’ and make it official with a new domain name.

Update 6-29-17: Maintenance Window Rescheduled for June 29th and June 30th We’ve confirmed the new dates and times for our hosting environment migration. Here are the details for the rescheduled maintenance windows: First Maintenance Window Begins on Thursday, June 29th at 11:00 pm and ends at 3:00 am EDT (8:00 pm to 12:00 am PDT/3:00 […]

Next week, we’ll be launching a brand new set of default email templates for CheddarGetter. We learned a ton about coding and designing responsive and highly-deliverable emails through the process. From the get-go, we had a few goals for the new templates in mind: High Deliverability We didn’t want these transactional emails ending up in […]

Security is a top priority for us here at CheddarGetter. Recently, the US Computer Emergency Readiness Team issued a vulnerability advisory for the RC4 encryption algorithm currently used by our load balancer. While this vulnerability potential only allow access to 100 bytes of data for every 1 billion connections, it is still advised that security […]

As many of you know, we’ve had a brand new version of CheddarGetter in beta testing for a few months. Today we’re excited to announce that the official cut over to the new CheddarGetter will be next week. On April 14th, CheddarGetter will become mobile friendly from top to bottom, receiving a total overhaul of […]

This Friday night from 10pm ET through Saturday morning at 10am ET and again Saturday night from 10pm ET until Sunday morning at 10am ET, our secure hosting provider, Firehost, will be preforming maintenance to re-sync firewall rules across their platform. It is likely that CheddarGetter and our customers will see no impact from this […]

We’ve been hard at work improving CheddarGetter. As you may know, we recently increased the security, reliability and performance of CheddarGetter with a major upgrade to our hosting platform. Today, we’re excited to share a major rework of our UI and an improved dashboard. We’ve made CheddarGetter’s interface mobile-friendly, enabling you to check critical metrics […]

This Monday, August 18, between 11:00 and 12:00 UTC (7am-8am EDT/4am-5am PDT), our hosting partners will be making some required changes to our infrastructure. We don’t anticipate that will result in any downtime but as usual, we’re scheduling the entire hour as a maintenance window to be sure. If you have any questions or concerns, […]

This Monday, June 23, between 15:00 and 16:00 UTC (11am-12pm EDT/8am-9am PDT), we’ll be performing a few package updates on our primary database server. Due to our recent platform upgrades, we now have full redundancy at our database layer. As a result, we anticipate that this routine maintenance will cause zero downtime. However, since this […]