Comments on: The servers are taking forever to get setup

by: barrie ontario business card printing

Sun, 17 Sep 2006 18:43:00 +0000

Rackspace was terrible. i will not use them again. We are in Canada and found a company in Toronto. Setup time wasn’t the best. But all has been well since. We aimed for extra time. So not going to complain to much.

by: David Stone

Sun, 17 Sep 2006 18:12:18 +0000

Hi Joseph,

The issue here wasn’t getting *a* environment setup (I’d done that as Ryan mentioned), it was getting the final environment setup. Also, as Ryan mentioned, “a company in San Francisco” do that.

Yes, I could have setup the final environment as well. However, the question isn’t a technical issue. The issue is what is the best use of my time?

by: Phil de Fontenay

Sun, 17 Sep 2006 14:54:12 +0000

I haven’t got any reality working with the Amigo system.
What are the pluspoints with using this system?

by: joseph

Wed, 31 May 2006 23:49:28 +0000

uh, why don’t you just lease a server and set it/them up yourself? If you are in the web app business and don’t know how to quickly take a raw Linux or Windows server and set it up for whatever dev and app environment you will need, then you aren’t familiar enough with the dev/app env in the first place, which means you are in the wrong business most likely.

by: JT

Wed, 17 May 2006 20:21:18 +0000

Thanks Ryan :) It looks like they do all the leg work for you as far as upgrades, subscriptions, etc. One question:

Do you have to plan the app and build it around the payment system? Or is it as easy as just adding a table or simple Paid/Unpaid field to the user table in the database?

Or do you think I can just build my app and worry about payment integration later?

I really think it would be great if you could dedicate a post to how you integrate this subscription system :)

Thanks!

by: Ryan Carson

Wed, 17 May 2006 12:54:11 +0000

What do you use to process payments?

We use Secure Trading and their XPay module. It's great for recurring payments.

by: JT

Wed, 17 May 2006 07:10:39 +0000

What do you use to process payments? I want to set up a monthly subscription system for my app like you. But I don’t have the know how of programming and integrating it into my app. Is there a third party system that can easily integrate into a web app?

I’ve been trying to figure out how to process credit card monthly subscriptions for a while now! Any help greatly appreciated :)

by: Ryan Carson

Tue, 16 May 2006 08:30:28 +0000

You’re using a single server for this app, so how do you go about securing your customers’ data on it? Will you store credit cards on it?

We don’t store credit card numbers on our servers. We use a third party company. It’s much to dangerous to store this data ourselves.

Why would you choose a data center in the Bay Area?

I’ve toured the data centre personally, and I was amazed with their earthquake systems.

Why not use the yahoo small business setup. It’s less than a tenner a month. I know it seems like cheating but

I’m not familiar with Yahoo Small Biz setup, but I assume it’s not very configurable and that the support levels aren’t very high?

I presume that for Amigo you will have an international target audience, but did you consider UK hosting? If not, why not?

We decided to co-lo at the same place where DropSend is, as we were already happy with the facility and support. Plus, it’s much cheaper than hosting in the UK, as the dollar is weak.

by: Gillian Carson

Mon, 15 May 2006 08:44:58 +0000

I’ll let Ryan answer that one - but I think what he will say is ‘too expensive’.

by: Chris Eaton

Sun, 14 May 2006 19:10:19 +0000

@ Oriol:

The project management webapp they’re using is the excellent “Basecamp”:http://www.basecamphq.com/ from 37 Signals (the guys behind Ruby on Rails). It’s free for the basic package so go and try it out. Highly recommended!

Ryan:

I presume that for Amigo you will have an international target audience, but did you consider UK hosting? If not, why not?