Every Time…
Setting up my own server is a little more involved than I originally envisioned. It seems every ounce of functionality I want requires several different open source projects to work together, and I have to go hunting and learning about the history and versions and how each service, server, community, app, etc. works and what's compatable with what and which workarounds, plugins and everything is best to use and which isn't and why and what to keep an eye on. It just goes on and on. This is all running on the new server which is a lot faster(after a reboot) although at the time of writing I just configured a whole lot of stuff and it's all lagging a bit. I don't even want to mention the dent in traffic from repetitively having to restart the server, apache, rails, etc.
I can't wait till I'm happy with the set up and can get knee deep in writing code again. I don't want to evaluate anymore, I just want to program. I've got all this ambition and innovation locked away in a special compartment of my neural network, hopefully it won't have gone stale by the time I get around to implementing it. grrrr.
