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Update: Last 18 hours I have been combating performance issues because I got digged. Things seem to work more stable now, but still the background processing fails on me sometimes. Good lessons are being learned here so I will wrap that in a nice article soon!

Update: I just added another 1 GB slice, that should get us going for a while. Now just have to wait for the damn DNS entries to update.

I am preparing a new machine as we speak. Wow, did not to run into these luxury problems already! Thanks for the support!

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Machine 1 (256mb memory, how I started out with 2 days ago):

Machine 2 (1024mb memory) new

Today and yesterday I’ve spend another couple of hours coding and designing away on my (autistic) little project Wigitize.com. I’m keeping an exact log of the amount of hours I’m spending and what’s happening so I will publish some full-exposure articles about how to build a project like this.

Currently these are the things that still need to be done:

• enabling people to choose a style for their widget
• write a simple API and a page to show how it works
• optimize backend so that a background worker will be used
• allowing people to ‘grab the grabber’ so that they can offer widgets of their own content to their users
• renting a machine with bandwidth, I’m thinking of slicehost.com (much cheaper than EC2)
• rethinking the name WIGITIZE. It sounds good to my Dutch-English, but it might not for Natives.

Another little sneak preview:

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