A web-based project that I've been working on for some time now has (finally) gone live: WheresSpot. This is an ambitions upgrade for us and brings so many advantages over our previous site, that I can't quite name them all. Rather than give users individual blogs, there's one master 'Community Blog' that people can contribute to (and yes, we're pinging the major sites, so everyone gets some exposure).
On the technical side, the beefy FreeBSD server that's supporting all of this is holding up just fine. The site has roughly 8,000 users and handles web serving, database duties, and e-mail (via postfix). Simulation can only get you so far. I wrote scripts that simulated e-mail load, used ab (apache bench) to stress the web side and tuned the database where I could. However, you never really know what's going to happen when you open it up for real. Using top, apachetop and tailing log files told me pretty early on the we were going to be fine.
It's incredibly satisfying to close this phase of the project, having it become "real." Now, onto the remainder of the list of things to implement!
Amazing!
As his partner on this, I can affirm Ed has done an AMAZING job on this, entirely carrying the ball on the technical side. Great day! Bravo, Ed!