Pipedot Status Week 1
Just a quick update on the progress after its first week of life:- Thursday : registered the pipedot.org domain!
- Friday : setup the DNS and mail servers.
- Saturday : Web, database, and memcache servers built up.
- Sunday : Load balancer added to balance between the two webservers. Also finished setting up the HTTPS certificate and IPv6 support.
- Monday : Initial look, logos, icons and CSS design.
- Tuesday : Database-backed stories (no more static placeholders).
- Wednesday : Login system was enabled.
- Thursday : The first poll was posted late Thursday in time for Valentines Day on Friday.
- Saturday : Topics and the Pipe activated.
- Sunday : Threaded comments and user-submitted stories enabled.
The code base is all new (not based on Slashcode) and using modern web technologies (nginx instead of Apache, no Perl CGI, etc...). There are currently six servers plus a load balancer with more webservers available to spin up as needed. Sections of code that are either CPU heavy or database intensive (threaded comments) are able to be memcached to maintain performance.
Stay tuned for the next week of updates!
I like the fact that these sitesall have their own look and feel, and I think it's possible over time that they will all organically find their own niches, and I might end up spending more time on one than the others, but for now, I'm happy enough to bounce around them all, and think it's too early to be worry about duplication of effort.
It seems quite clear that the 'beta episode' has spurred a lot of people into action, and with all these new sites coming to my attention, it sort of feels a bit like when I first went online (probably getting on for 20 years ago).
This is all only my opinion though... :)