Just a week away from the next c ourse - and this time the servers will be hosted with Digital Ocean . Lovely simple setup and almost unbeatable prices. Performance isn't a big factor for the course, but that looks as if should also be very good. During this week I'll be cranking up a few test servers and testing my pre-course deployment scripts - it's important that everything very closely matches the course notes. Amazon ECS was great fun last time round, and worked well, but for this sort of course where servers are running for a month with minimal load it's prohibitively expensive. The course has been $49 but I've now dropped that right down the price I used in beta testing - $25! At that price its clearly a good deal, so I've made sure that numbers are limited to 200 learners because any more would make the new Zendesk -based forums a little chaotic.
occasional jottings on what I'm up to...