Updates for 2008-05-27
- The category system has been reviewed and finalized. We can now begin the last f the work before prelaunch. Gallery comments and widgets. #
Updates for 2008-05-26
- It’s Memorial Day, god bless our veterans. i took some time today to do a walkthrough of the site. Got good feedback, almost there #
Updates for 2008-05-22
- Settled on Flyspray for bug tracking for the project. Runners up included Mantis and Trac, but the developers are already use to Flyspray #
- Looks like we’ll be standardizing on Webload for load testing in production. It has a long history an dis now OSS. Things are moving along #
Updates for 2008-05-20
- We are entering the last phases of development on the project. We will probably slip launching in May to round out our profile/home pages. #
- We will be looking into integrating Google Custom Search to replace the current full text MySQL based search in the system #
Updates for 2008-05-19
- We successfully deployed to Mosso and the site seems to be very snappy. We deployed to MySQL 4, but need to switch to MySQL 5. #
Workable Pricing at Mosso!
Mosso, our host for RGB Daily proper and this blog, is updating their pricing model. For the most part it looks like they are getting rid of the 3M request cap and $.03 CPM request pricing after the cap. They are moving towards a unit of measure that prices CPU and IO utilization. $100/mo buys you the horse power of a single dedicated box. I’m assuming that their overages at scale should correlate to the fixed pricing per month. So here are my questions:
- What are the specs of this virtual box?
- What average constant percent utilization of this box is the “compute cycle” based on
- Will pricing be linear based on base monthly pricing or will it be more expensive?
- Will pricing be tiered and will discounts kick in at scale?
- What is the relative ratio in terms of compute cycles of CPU vs Disk IO? Disk IO has to come in significantly cheaper for this new model to work. It has to reflect the real cost of CPU vs Disk.
- Will you be able to buy excess capacity ahead of time at base rates or cheaper? Best for Mosso and customers because more capital is generated for resource and capacity planning.
You can check out more at my thoughts at Mashable: Mosso Updates Pricing Structure; A Better Model for Cloud Computing?
For RGB Daily this is huge because it means that we will be able to move forward with our widget strategy unencumbered. With the request caps it just wouldn’t have been possible. Mosso has made our application architecture strategy a simple one.
Updates for 2008-05-14
- Looks like Mosso had an outage on the MySQL cluster that at least this blog is hosted on. That’s kinda scary, better than dedicated though #
Updates for 2008-05-12
- We’re wrapping up the last of the chrome updates before we deploy for the first time on Mosso staging. Exciting times. #
- Did some more research on Twitter/Flickr integration. Looks like we may go with Friendfeed. Will explain more in a future post #
Updates for 2008-05-09
- Looked over the Twitter REST API. Very cool, we will start working on some form of integration in the coming weeks. Also Flickr and YouTube #
- Base layout and framework for the homepage is coming together. Thinking about enabling customization now based on feedback from friends #
Updates for 2008-05-08
- Looks like the home page design is coming along. We have the basic framework in place to make it great. We need to spider now. #