I sent out a msgpad beta email yesterday to everyone that had registered as a beta tester. The email said that my main concerns right now are with the scalability of the system. Because of this I'll be creating accounts for beta testers as I find the system can handle the load.
If you did not receive an email from me but did register, then please register again at "http://register.msgpad.com":http://register.msgpad.com. I'm very sorry, but I think some registrations did not work. I suspect it's configuration related to Dreamhost/FastCGI but I'm not entirely sure yet.
Also, yesterday I enabled msgpad and the seperate msgpad registration system with "Capistrano":http://manuals.rubyonrails.com/read/book/17. In terms of Ruby On Rails, Capistrano is a tool that helps push new versions of your web site on to remote hosts. Capistrano will restart web servers, relocate logs, handle multiple web/app/db servers etc. It integrates nicely with subversion, and provides a bunch of default 'tasks' such as rolling back your deployments, and disabling/enabling maintainance mode. I hate routine tasks, so Capistrano is a life saver for me.