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!
Got to say: I am extremely impressed! I don't know enough about the internals to comment on that, but the site looks and feels great, and you've done some fast work! I dig the favicon, the site's graphics are sharp, and the whole thing is impressive.
Count on me to keep getting the word out - need to drive more traffic to this place! I'll be at Soylent too, of course - now I have more reasons than ever to not actually do my job while I'm at work.
Very impressive - congrats.