Good news! Mistash is joining the Los Angeles accelerator Start Engine in April. Excited to be a part of the tech investment movement happening in LA. Why join an accelerator? Well, it looks to be an excellent opportunity to learn from advisors and mentors who have been there done that. Stay tuned for updates.
Up until recently, hosting a load balanced site on Amazon AWS presented a problem – naked domains. The workaround I used in the past was to associate an elastic ip address to one of the EC2 instances, create an A record pointing to the elastic ip address, a CNAME (www) pointed to the load balancer, and then configure nginx on the EC2 instance with the associated elastic ip to route all naked domain requests to the load balancer. Not ideal.
This was the same solution I was using for Mistash until running into DNS issues with my provider a few weeks ago. The site stopped resolving properly and www.mistash.com was being directed to a parked page. Ugh. I put in a support ticket with the provider and decided to check out Route53.
Turns out that Route53 now supports aliasing for A records to the load balancer! I activated Route53 in my management console, moved over all the DNS info, and within 30 minutes everything was golden and the site was resolving properly again. Thumbs up!
Bootstrap, the CSS framework from Twitter is what I am currently using on Mistash for CSS. Bootstrap made things move along quickly for the site layout and design. I like that Bootstrap has a very clean and easy format to follow and doesn’t get carried away. It’s getting a ton of usage on the web which means great cross browser testing and quick bug fixes from the community.
I am totally looking forward to the 2.0 release when responsive design is integrated and then Mistash will get some much needed love for mobile.
Figured it was time again to start a blog. Going to be focusing on the things I discover while working on Mistash. Hopefully this can help others going down the path of launching a startup or using technologies like Amazon AWS, NodeJS, and MongoDB for their own personal projects.
Let us see how this goes.
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