Two weeks ago we were pushing a new feature to the server and POOF! The server didn't like what we were doing. Everything locked up and stopped playing nice. An intense 45 minutes resulted in a reboot, a refactoring of code and getting things back to what they were.

So, determined to NOT have that happen again, we have started up a BETA server for our BETA app. Overkill? Not really, and here is why.

When we first started, we knew that there was going to be bumps. However, the assumption had always been that there was going to be a limited audience that would suffer with us through growing pains. Well, the project has been successful beyond our expectations. To date, we've had almost 3k unique visitors and 7k+ page views. Each person is looking at 2.55 pages per visit and the average time on the site is 3+ minutes. So folks are reading what is being done!

So, we need to manage this growth in a way that doesn't blow up the server again. Thus a beta server for our beta app. This is where we mimic the server in every detail, except that its for testig, and we can assess things in realtime, before they are launched to a server.

We're about 75% done with getting the server set up, and we should have that wrapped up shortly. Lemme know if your interested, and I'll let you know more about the server and you can see what we're doing.

Something to keep in mind... this will be a separate data stream. So we won't be duplicating content or asking more work from you. If you're curious the tag will be #dmingmlbeta.

Delicious is still giving us real problems, and two Facebook accounts are not behaving. We're working on those so we can get that sorted as soon as possible.

Right now we've finished off a couple of new features that will help talk about what you guys are working on and provide some context for visitors that are not in the program. We've almost wrapped up the user profile feature, where you'll eb able to login and administrate your account and the services you use.

We'll be rolling these out as soon as we've been able to make sure that the system is working as intended on the beta server.

As always, lemme know if you have questions below and you can always tweet me at @dmingmltech

Thanks