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Creating a resilient web business

Posted by bw00d on Friday February 20, 2015 @06:15PM
from the self-post dept.

I am getting ready to launch a new application with a business partner. I am the technical founder and only developer at the moment and want to make sure the business is resilient as far the app is concerned. I have the app in a private github repo, it's hosted on heroku, but all the development is done on my personal computer, which is backed up. God forbid if I get kidnapped by aliens or...

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Re:What does it take to run a web app with 5K – 10K users? on Saturday January 10, 2015 @10:00AM (#8866873)
This is something I'm going to have to research. I haven't dealt with logging yet, besides reading development logs and Heroku logs.
Re:What does it take to run a web app with 5K – 10K users? on Saturday January 10, 2015 @09:59AM (#8866868)
Thank you for your input.
Re:What does it take to run a web app with 5K – 10K users? on Saturday January 10, 2015 @01:02AM (#8866107)
Thanks, that's good information
Re:What does it take to run a web app with 5K – 10K users? on Saturday January 10, 2015 @01:01AM (#8866104)
Thanks for the advice
Re:What does it take to run a web app with 5K – 10K users? on Saturday January 10, 2015 @12:55AM (#8866090)
Thanks for the tips
Re:What does it take to run a web app with 5K – 10K users? on Saturday January 10, 2015 @12:47AM (#8866063)
Thanks for the comments
Re:What does it take to run a web app with 5K – 10K users? on Saturday January 10, 2015 @12:40AM (#8866044)
Thanks, I will.
Re:What does it take to run a web app with 5K – 10K users? on Friday January 09, 2015 @11:06PM (#8865887)
Thanks
Re:What does it take to run a web app with 5K – 10K users? on Friday January 09, 2015 @10:39PM (#8865822)
This is great, thanks.

What does it take to run a web app with 5K – 10K users?

Posted by bw00d on Friday January 09, 2015 @10:20AM
from the self-post dept.

A few years ago I was inspired by this artice: http://viniciusvacanti.com/2010/11/01/6-things-you-need-to-learn-to-build-your-own-prototype/. Now I am able to build my own Rails apps and run them in production. I am now wondering what it takes to launch and successfully run a website with 5-10K users? All the articles I have found doing a web search were vary basic.

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Re:I Need Help on Wednesday March 20, 2013 @07:43PM (#5411527)
http://www.newsytype.com/14561-magic-mushrooms-antidepressan...

http://www.dhamma.org/en/vipassana.shtml

Good luck

Re:Finished CodeAcademy, now what? on Sunday January 13, 2013 @11:30AM (#5051054)
hello_newman- I would love to get a list of that ruby prep work as well. Thanks [email protected]
Re:How My Start-Up Failed on Saturday January 05, 2013 @06:40AM (#5012348)
Great story. Very good idea. I'm sure it was a good learning experience.
Re:What would you say to a teenager joining a startup? on Friday December 28, 2012 @05:57AM (#4977251)
Bravo