PMOG

PMOG / The Nethernet was expensive to run. We had built prototypes to prove ideas; we hadn't built something that was conservative with computing resources. We had thrown money at web hosting, figuring that our hosting costs would only grow more expensive if we were successful. Cwikla rigged up The Nethernet to run using the cloud, basically preparing the software to scale inexpensively. Unfortunately we were chained to a $20k-a-month dedicated cluster server and service contract with Engine Yard from before his time. I worked to lower our monthly bill but Cwikla's code couldn't immediately trim our overhead... One of my favorite images from PMOG: a shoat eating a book. By Douglas A. Sirois a talented illustrator. I had this classy, happy, info-eating pig on my CEO business card until we became The Nethernet... We started building PMOG in 2006, launched GameLayers in 2007 - that was just two years before Facebook became the dominant social plumbing for casual online entertainment. We..