2003

From Hosting Provider to High-End Software Architect

A decisive milestone in our company’s history: We no longer provided our customers with high-performance servers alone, but began developing complex custom software and carrying out in-depth optimization of underperforming third-party code.

This step laid the foundation for our present-day expertise in code forensics. The trigger: Our customer, Cashcrawler GmbH, complained about an allegedly “too slow” rental server. Our analysis, however, clearly showed that the hardware was not the bottleneck – inefficient software was.

Since the customer doubted this – after all, his developer had programmed the system specifically for him and declared it error-free – we made a risk-free offer: We optimize the code. If there is no improvement, we cover the costs.

After three weeks of intensive refactoring, the result was clear: The server ran completely effortlessly. On exactly the same hardware, the customer was now able to operate four projects simultaneously instead of just one – without any overload whatsoever. He was more than happy to pay for our work and remains loyal to us even today – now with his successor company. This uncompromising focus on software efficiency remains the foundation of our work to this day.