Steve, Danny, and I were on a GoToMeeting session. We were watching and monitoring servers, on tech support calls, and trying to get things up and running. As part of the conversation we talked a lot about some of the outside parties and being able to access the pieces that we need to. This could be outside 3rd party code, independent apps, specific code, WordPress sites, and other pieces. We really need our own access to these pieces.

Hosted solutions are big animals. We have to build it, service it, and keep it going.

We have a great team of people who all have a number of key talents and pieces. How can we keep organizing things so that we get and keep those key players.

Looking at options and seeing where we can fill in the blanks.

We talked about text message marketing and some of the crazy challenges with that. Currently, there are two main players out there. One is Twilio and the other is AWS. Both of them have some built-in text messaging options. Here is a link to Twilio - https://www.twilio.com/

Wayne popped in and we looked at data 0 and data 2. Currently, those servers are some high traffic volume players. We were talking about ways of splitting up the servers into smaller clusters and putting the databases on their own dedicated servers. We also talked about some world building project stuff and splitting up databases. As a fun side note, Wayne jumped in and showed us some of the resource monitor stuff for that server.

Sometimes we use custom code as a virtual buy-in or investment to our platform. We love it when others succeed.

Steve and I spent a bunch of time talking about our current plan and how things are developing. We will keep on keeping on. Lots of good stuff ahead.