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!
The moderate button for SN is starting to grow on me. It actually does work really well on my phone too, which is nice. I found out can read a whole page of comments and chose options, then when I've spent my points I click the moderate button to apply them all at once. I like the idea of an undo button though. Maybe I've moderated something, but after a screen refresh I see something else that's more deserving of the points. Or maybe I'm just on the line about something and decide to go Insightful instead of Informative.