Deployment and Employment

Been following a wonderfully detailed series of posts about deploying using nginx/mongrel on Debian and have decided that this is the route I'd like to take. I want to get all of this done in the period between Xmas and NY so as to be ready for Wittenbeck in the new year (complete with upload progress).

I also want to look into using Google Checkout (GC) for payment processing as soon as it is available for merchants outside of the US. I've read a couple of posts citing the GC FAQ which implies that, although intended foremost for one-off purchases, GC can also be used for recurring payments.

Some speed improvements can be achieved by combining action caching with named routes. And BackgroundDRB can cache ActiveRecord objects.

What other hurdles lay ahead?

• Legal Form - I'm going to start as a sole trader and move a ltd once I've got some customers.
• Terms & Conditions - Copy/adapt from 37 Signals or Carson Systems until I can pay for a real one.
• Copyright - Apply once the money is there.

In an ideal world, I'd start trading as a Ltd company with a T&C approved by a lawyer and all the relevant copyrights & trademarks applied and paid for. But I know this will just delay everything even more and I'm getting impatient.