On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 1:34 PM, George Christman <gchrist...@cardaddy.com>wrote:
> Thanks Guys, I'm glad you like it and yes I like this one a lot better than > my old one, so much simpler in 5.4. > >mate, she's a super fast website and i've gotta say looks better than the > >previous version. > You would probably be amazed to know it's being hosted with amazons elastic > beanstalk on a single small instance. It does have the ability to scale up > instances automatically, but I have yet to see it happen. Traffic isn't to > crazy yet, but I've managed to do over 4000 visits, almost 31 thousand page > views, and nearly 500 post in the past couple weeks while still performing > very well on a little instance. I'd also like to say I'm currently storing > the lucene index in memory without issue, Tap 5.4 appears to perform very > well thus far. > How much are you paying, if I may ask (for comparison purposes), and are you using reserved instances? Kalle > >i noticed the images.cardaddy.com resolves to AWS. out of curiousity, > was > >this hard to configure? > > Very simple, I just used their API and had everything up and running in one > night. I just like the redundancy amazon can give me. > http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/llJavaUploadFile.html > > >i am interested in things breaking, so - where exactly did the exploit for > >bringing down the old service come from? > >apache http -> app server? and what version of apache were you using? > > It wasn't the application, it was apache. My partner hadn't done security > updates on the server in nearly 3 years and at the time I lacked the > knowledge or skill to do it myself. This is the reason I have since > migrated my app to aws, I do not have time to deal with those kinds of > issues. Now if I lose a server, aws will have a new on up and running > before I even knew what happened. :) > > >i have just deployed version-1.0.9 of an internal ip address app that is > >written on tapestry-5.3 and am FINALLY getting onto a simple tapestry 5.4 > >project from scratch. > > Once you make the move to 5.4, you'll never look back, the tap team has > done an incredible job. I'm very pleased with the results. > > > >I also checked out the link when you sent it, nice job! I found myself > >imagining how you laid out the components. =) > > Thanks man, now if I only had a pro helping me out lol. Everything is > rather simple, hardly any custom javascript, which makes Tapestry a huge > win for me as a lone developer :) The hardest part is designing everything > around search engines. I must have fell on my head years ago when I decided > to get into the automotive space, it has to be the most competitive space > on the web to be. I spend most of my time trying to build URLs, pages, and > components to rank well in google. I find that ends up dictating my > components and design. > > > > > > congratulations, > chris > > > On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 9:59 AM, George Christman > <gchrist...@cardaddy.com>wrote: > > > I'd like to first say thanks to all who have contributed to the on going > > evolution of Tapestry and it's support. I'm a long time user of Tapestry > > starting with version 3 in 2005 and I must say leaps and bounds have been > > made since then. I'd also like to say thanks to all who have continued to > > answer my never ending array of questions ;-) Thanks guys! It has been a > > pleasure working with you all. > > > > In 2008 we took a risk and decided to move forward with t5 beta over > > spring with the development of our new app. We experienced some short > lived > > glorious times as we successfully processed hundreds of thousands of > users > > and cars, however do to our nations elected official and his cash for > > clunkers program, it destroyed our market place forcing me to have to > > change our brand to CarDaddy.com. > > > > With the lack of success with the new brand I eventually had to move on > to > > other opportunities. I ended up taking a job with our state government > and > > some contract work for a hotel wireless company, however along with my > > move, I decided to bring along my dear friend Tapestry5. Tapestry5 has > > ended up becoming an active platform within my organizations which we are > > now actively focused on building 5.4 apps. :) > > > > While being focused with my other work, my personal app which was still > > being ran on T5.1 was lacking support and ended up getting hacked > (apache) > > three weeks ago by the Chinese bringing down my servers. This forced me > to > > have to whip up a new application over the past three weeks by myself in > > 5.4 and yup, that wasn't a typo, only three weeks and that includes > mobile > > too, okay maybe they were 3 very long weeks, but I still managed to > pulled > > it off and I don't think I could have without the help of T5.4, jquery, > > bootstrap etc :) Well I'd like to share my new app with the community > while > > once again pushing out a beta app into production :) I realize there is a > > lot of room for improvement, so feel free to suggest away. Growth seems > to > > be on the rise as traffic / inventory continue to increase daily and I > > don't have a doubt in my mind that Tapestry won't be up for the job. > > > > Once again, thank you guys for all you have done. > > > > New 5.4-beta3 site > > www.cardaddy.com > > > > > > Cheers, > > George > > > > -- > > George Christman > > www.CarDaddy.com > > P.O. Box 735 > > Johnstown, New York > > > > > > > -- > George Christman > www.CarDaddy.com > P.O. Box 735 > Johnstown, New York >
