Hello all, this is Nick again. You may have noticed I often post code related stuff on my particular blog. We are working towards a better feed solution so that those of you who just hate reading my drivel can take me out of your feed completely. Until then though, you’ll just have to ignore the stuff as soon as you see it was posted by me.
Today I want to begin the little series where I talk about what has gone into making this project the success it has been, from a technological standpoint. I work my day job at Neudesic a Microsoft National Systems Integrator and Gold ISV Partner, (thats a big deal in the Microsoft World), so I do code all day long every day, yet it still remains a passion of mine. What I am really passionate about is making a beautiful solution. And for me part of making a beautiful solution is making a hardware and resource economical solution. That is especially key for me, because the position that “throwing enough hardware at a problem will make it go away”, although viable, has led to some really disgusting frameworks floating around the world, and nobody likes working with crap.
I started my coding experience in the Open Source world of Linux, MySQL, Apache and PHP… the every familiar LAMP stack. Besides being completely free on licensing costs, this server setup also has the benefit of being widely available at cheap low cost, and thus low power hosting providers. This gives you a lot of practice eeking out the best possible performance on a website on the least $/month. Luckily today that $/months is less of an issue so we are able to get a great hosting provider as a partner, and a robust setup to keep this comic running smoothly. We’ve also broken out of the tried and true and are employing some really interesting services and software solutions to keep ourselves competitive.
That said, over the course of the next few weeks and posts, I’ll outline what I decided on, how we’ve set it up and configured, and other such nonsense. This may not interest a lot of our readers, but for those who do care, here you will have it. And if we can server to help in any way with your setup we’d love to try.
Now goodbye hypothetical reader, I’ll post the next bit about Server Selection in a few moments.