I am glad to finally get this site launched! I had been considering it for some time and after a Saturday night and Sunday morning of stimulating research, I decided to use Hostgator. I was (barely) using the Amazon Web Services for a small non-public side project; although I did find the array of services offered through that platform to be intriguing, the cost of hosting per month would be suboptimal for a small site.
The next order of business is to make my own plugin for WordPress to manage and display data from a database I recently exported to MySQL from a local SQL Server 2012 Express instance. I was using this database with a Windows Presentation Foundation desktop app I coded to manage points for a poker league I direct.
While I am generally pleased with the app, it is rather inconvenient to have to fire up the local SQL Server instance and then launch the app from my laptop when I could be managing the data from a browser on my phone. I did consider reimplementing it as a native Android app but I would need the data to be persisted to some web-accessible database anyway, so I wouldn’t really be gaining much.
I will make some of this data available here so the competitors can track their performance and where they stand with their peers.