It’s been an agonizing few weeks playing the waiting game with various folks.

First up, I ordered a standalone server to act as a backbone of the prototype. I’ve had dedicated servers for years, never my own. I needed to have maximum RAM and storage, and the costs of having my host “upgrade” my leased server was too prohibitive.

So where has the wait been?

Bought the server, was shipped the next day. DHL then proceeds to “lose” my box at the warehouse in the destination city. It finds it but blows the estimated shipping day by 4 days.

Now my host (colopronto) has had it since last Friday, but since I missed my Raq date, they haven’t yet racked it up and imaged the server.

Oh well, I suppose when bootstrapping like this I should be thankful that everything is relatively cheap. It’s just frustrating as my team is still coding on their local machines and I want to start syncing things into Subversion. I know, I’m paranoid.

In other news, I’m filing my patents this week! At least the wheels are moving.