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That's the HN effect. Demo sites are "pre-deployed" to make sure you get a fresh individual site. Usually there are hundreds of them in the waiting but looks li
by intellectronica 11y ago
That's the HN effect. Demo sites are "pre-deployed" to make sure you get a fresh individual site. Usually there are hundreds of them in the waiting but looks like we've got very popular all of a sudden :)
If you'd like to give it a try and don't have patience to wait for a demo site to become available, you can also register to Aldryn [ http://www.aldryn.com/ http://www.aldryn.com/ ] (for free) and deploy your own site with a few clicks.
- austinjp 11y agoSlight side-track, but I'd be interested in your "pre-deployment" process. Could you enlighten me, or point me somewhere I could find out? Thanks.
- intellectronica 11y agoIt works just like normal site deployment (prepare containers with the site code and a database, etc, push it to cloud servers) but unlikely customer sites that are controlled by, well, customers, the demo is always the same site, so instead of making users wait for a deploy to start and finish when they request a demo, we deploy a bunch of demo sites in the background and when the user asks for a demo they just get one of the pre-deployed sites (while in the background we start deploying a new one to add to the pool).
- austinjp 11y agoMany thanks. What automation tools do you use, and how have you found them? If you've already written about this I'm happy to be pointed elsewhere.
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