Thousands of users visit RealUp.com everyday. With all of our free features, RealUp is growing and expanding at a rapid pace. Our servers work overtime in order to provide you the best website possible.
One of the main technological goals of RealUp is to give users the greatest amount of running uptime possible. We want our users to be able to visit and utilize RealUp 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Managing the multiple redundant database servers, web servers, image servers, DNS servers with 100% reliability is a daunting task. To better serve our customers, RealUp uses Pingdom, one of the most well known website monitoring companies in the world.
Pingdom is a professional monitoring company that uses in house technology to monitor all of their client's websites. Pingdom monitors RealUp's servers every minute of every day, sending alerts of any problems in sight.
Pingdom provides an unbeatable service to some of the biggest names on the internet. Twitter, Amazon, IBM, and McAffee are just some of their customers, among many other technology, entertainment companies, and universities.
RealUp would like to let all of their customers know that 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, we are dedicated our time to keeping RealUp working for you. Because of this, RealUp's listings will be available 99.9% of the time leaving little room for error.
Should you experience any technical difficulty, or have any question regarding our website, please feel free to call us toll free at 888-878-2975. We value our customers, and look to make buying, selling, and leasing commercial property as smooth as possible.
RealUp offers commercial real estate professionals unlimited demographics data for anywhere in the United States. Demographics information is provided for each commercial property at 1, 3, 5, and 10 mile radius. Users can also search for demographics data by location and data type.
To create our demographics reports, we needed to have data from the United States Census Bureau. We acquired the data and then processed and compiled it into a usable format. The compiling took some time, and getting it all organized to make it usable so the data can be pulled in less than a second for any address took a lot more time.
The census in America is taken at 10 year intervals, so the data we have is mostly from 2000. That was nine years ago, so to update the information the US Census Bureau issues estimates made using surveys and statistical models.
The next census is coming up next year in 2010. A lot hinges on the census, including the number of congressional representatives and Electoral College members are allotted to each state. Federal funding and aid are also affected by the outcome.
The census takes data on people who live in structures in the US. This data includes age, race, gender, education, housing/vacancy, martial status, income levels, and much more. The sole purpose of the census is to secure general statistical information. The information gathered is only to be used for statistical information.
The confidentiality of the replies is very important. By law, no one - not the census takers nor any other Census Bureau employee - is permitted to reveal identifiable information about any person, household, or business.
Early in the development process we decided to use MySQL to run our databases. MySQL is a popular open source relational database management system which is used by many companies in the LAMP configuration. MySQL was originally developed in Sweden and was recently purchased by Sun Microsystems.
In general, we support the open source movement and community. We also liked several of the MySQL features, such as cross platform support, multiple engines (MyISAM, InnoDB) and, of course, the LIMIT query.
However, after conducting extensive speed and performance testing we found that MySQL was just too slow. We host and serve huge datasets including census demographics, professionals directory and recent sales data – each of which has tens of millions of records. We needed our database to be big and fast.
In the end, we turned to Microsoft SQL Server for our database solution. During side by side testing, SQL Server was approximately 7-9 times faster than MySQL during an initial query. Even with caching and indexing, SQL Server was still over twice as fast as MySQL.
We spent many, many hours trying to fine tune and speed up MySQL. However, we realized there were basic flaws with MySQL, including the inability to run a query on multiple CPU cores. We are now using Microsoft SQL Server 2008 and are very pleased with the speed and performance. Now if only it had a LIMIT function...
Today our brand new servers arrived! We bought a new HP Proliant server to host our database. It’s super-fast with extra speed to handle the ENORMOUS amount of traffic we expect to have at launch in May.
The genesis-story of Hewlet-Packard is an interesting one. Today, we know HP as the largest technology company on the planet, so it's hard to believe that less than 100 years ago, this company started in a garage.
Bill Hewlet and Dave Packard were college buddies from Stanford and set up in Dave's Garage in 1939 with an initial investment of $538.00. We here are starting with much more than a garage, but it is truly an inspiration to make so much out of so little, especially in the hard economic times.
On a side note, it is amazing how much cheaper hardware gets every year. Devices get smaller, faster and cheaper. A much bigger, much slower server with less storage would have cost half a million dollars ten years ago!
This can be explained through Moore's Law, which states that the number of transistors on a given chip can be doubled every two years. This trend is expected to continue, but eventually it will come to an end. For now, the lower prices make it possible for a small start-up like ours to open, and bring new technology to the commercial real estate industry.
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RealUp offers commercial real estate professionals unlimited demographics data for anywhere in the United States. Demographics information is provided for each commercial property at 1, 3, 5, and 10 mile radius. Users can also search for demographics data by location and data type.
Early in the development process we decided to use 
Today our brand new servers arrived! We bought a new 
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