Come for the Ride!

Launch week has been pretty successful.  Even though we are purposely not blasting all the web 2.0 news sites with our arrival due to low inventories, we still managed to get a lot of helpful advice from our friends and mentors who have been checking out the site.  In fact, if you’re in the Atlanta area and are looking for a Panoz, we can hook you up!

With that said, much needs to be done.  We have to optimize our code, we have to create and fill in content, we have to find and squash bugs and last but not least, we really want to get at least 100,000 cars for the metro Atlanta area. (that would be 2x what AJC Cars has)

Before we get there, we need to pick up our speed – our server has been killing us.  This part of the growing pain has actually been an interesting experience for our team considering none of us have faced this problem before.  When we first started, we did what we could to save money.  This included borrowing old servers on T1 connections from our jobs and using them when the resources are available.  Alas, our network of old servers and slow connections that make up Frankenstein could not handle our daily chores.  With that, we decided we need to really invest on a new server – one that can handle the daily imports and the request of 10′s of our fans.

Well, when there’s more to report, I will let you know.  In the mean time, any suggestions on where to find servers and when to upgrade would be greatly appreciated.

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