Sheesh, after what seemed like two years, our server is finally ready. It’s so exciting to see the app actually working in the dev environment.
What we learned from all this is that it’s wonderful to have a developer who understands Linux boxes and can run their own server. We survived on Dave’s server up until now and it really saved the project from falling behind!
We work with a company in San Francisco, who takes care of setting up, deploying and managing our servers. Amigo is going to be hosted on a single LAMP box at 365 Main (one of the world’s best data centers, in my opinion).
They were really responsive and wonderful when we worked with them on DropSend, but they’ve gotten really busy lately and it’s taking them forever to get our server deployed.
This has made it hard on Dave, our developer. He’s had to use his Linux box as a dev box. It’s not in a data center, so the connection is unreliable at best.
Lesson we learned: get your servers deployed at the beginning - don’t wait.