Waegis Will Be Live in July
The last time that I gave a status of the Waegis I promised to announce the final launch date of Waegis very soon and today I finally found an idea of the timeline that I can rely on it.
Last Thursday the Alpha testing stage of Waegis ended and the VPS account that was hosting the Waegis Alpha expired. I’m in the process of merging my pre-launch data (gathered from Alpha testing and incoming databases) and also finalizing a few things in order to launch the site.
Initially I had fixed 30th June as the launch date for the site and hoped that I can make it possible but unfortunately some unexpected parameters delayed the launch for 10-15 days.
The final theme of the site is almost ready and Shaho sent me the main part of the theme for many pages and the rest would be ready shortly.
I’m done with the code and don’t have anything more to do at the moment. Actually the software was ready last week but the launch has not been possible yet because of some other reasons. This project was one of the few software projects that I’ve experienced and their software could be ready on time and side-parameters stopped it to be released on time!
The other big concern about the launch of the site is its hosting. From 2-3 months ago I did a serious research on this topic and consulted with some friends. Here Hamid Shojaee was a big help with his notes and the time that he spent to convince me about some wrong opinions. Hamid’s company, Axosoft, is also the sponsor of the Waegis and he’s helping me so I have to thank him for his endless favors to me.
After all these researches, I finally chose one of the biggest and very well-known Windows hosters that you all know and it is MaximumASP. I’ve talked to their sales agent and almost have fixed the solution and hopefully Mehrdad helps me to get started with this solution in the next upcoming days. Unless some last minute changes appear in the work, this is chosen as the hosting solution for the Waegis.
But the reason for the delay of the launch is this hosting! According to my initial conversations with the agent at MaximumASP, I thought we would be able to proceed with the setup in less than 3-4 business days but today I believed that it may take up to 10 business days to proceed with it!
Of course, the quality of MaximumASP services and the power of the platforms should guarantee everything both for me and for all the clients and this delay would worth it.
As of the delay in the launch, I’d prefer to accept this delay and postpone the launch date even though I have a very busy schedule and this disturbs it. I have two other big projects that were planned to start after this launch and this can postpone them as well. Time is the most critical thing in all aspects of my life but I also don’t want to hurry up and miss anything.
This two weeks delay puts a gap between Alpha testing and final Beta but has let me to gather some good databases and feed the system with more data. This can be a very important parameter in the success of a spam filter software! I also have been able to do some works that I had planned for the final stage and this lets me to reduce the Beta period. On the other hand, I decided to start my new projects in parallel with launching the site to not loose the time.
Nothing else to mention! I’ll write about the final launch date sometime in the next week.
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