Launching a Site

Yesterday London Property Pulse went live. Launching is a euphoric and satisfying moment where you feel ‘Hooray, I’m on the Internet 🎉’! Here’s to launching early 🍻 The site is definitely far from ready, with bare-bone BE and FE but this way I can see how my changes affect the site’s performance and build in public. It also helps my motivation: now it’s real and in the world 🌍. Learnings Getting familiar with Linux I’m trying something new by hosting on a virtual private server (VPS) - aka Linux box in the cloud - and had a few things to learn along the way but got there in about a day. While I’m familiar with unix environments, working without the bells and whistles of my comfy and configured environment was a bit of a shock but relatively easy to work. ...