Re:I've had it!

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1999


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 23150
interpreted = N
texte = Just for your information...We run Mac servers with considerably greater traffic numbers, and have not had any problems running any of PCS's software. We do commerce as well as non-commerce sites, including the Vote system for the State of Washington, which ran in the millions of hits per month.I would think there are other issues here... but I would caution about changing servers unless you have a strong background in that product at the same time. Learing NT, UNIX or a Mac server is not a small task, and simply opens up another set of issues.Larry Hewitt Hewitt Consulting>Support will confirm this, but I think this and many other issues were >address with the current beta of the Mac CGI... Have you tried the current >beta... I know that it is about to be the new release... > > >>for the 25th time (literally!) today, web catalog ACGI for the mac has self >>quit, launched itself again, and popped up a damn serial number protection >>screen in front of my shoppers! on top of that, given heavy traffic (which is >>supposed to be a good thing) a lousy replace function locks up the entire >>database that tracks site preferences because WebCatalog doesn't seem to >>be able >>to do record locking. >>I've had over 7000 visitors today, but only 123 orders (given an average day >>ratio, I should have had over 350 orders) mostly because this site slows to a >>damn crawl under any real traffic. >>This week, I'm installing an NT server. I give it a week, if it doesn't >>improve, >>I declare Webcatalog completely incapable for medium to large sites, and I'm >>gone. >> >> Brian B. Burton >> BOFH - Department of Redundancy Department >>--------------------------------------------------------------- >> MMT Solutions - Specializing in Online Shopping Solutions >> 973-808-8644 http://www.safecommerce.com >> >>Protect your right to own and arm bears. > >Jay Van Vark ******************************* >Pacific Coast Software | eCommerce (WebCatalog) >11770 Bernardo Plaza Court | Site Hosting & Development >Suite 453 | http://www.smithmicro.com >San Diego, CA 92128 ******************************* >619.675.1106 > > ======================================================================== Hewitt Consulting... Business Internet Solutions ======================================================================== www.hewittco.com Larry Hewitt larryh@hewittco.com Hewitt Consulting voice: 360/740-1090 Managing Partner cell: 360/508-6014 fax: 360/740-0998 Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re:I've had it! (Larry Hewitt 1999)
  2. Re:I've had it! (Jay Van Vark 1999)
Just for your information...We run Mac servers with considerably greater traffic numbers, and have not had any problems running any of PCS's software. We do commerce as well as non-commerce sites, including the Vote system for the State of Washington, which ran in the millions of hits per month.I would think there are other issues here... but I would caution about changing servers unless you have a strong background in that product at the same time. Learing NT, UNIX or a Mac server is not a small task, and simply opens up another set of issues.Larry Hewitt Hewitt Consulting>Support will confirm this, but I think this and many other issues were >address with the current beta of the Mac CGI... Have you tried the current >beta... I know that it is about to be the new release... > > >>for the 25th time (literally!) today, web catalog ACGI for the mac has self >>quit, launched itself again, and popped up a damn serial number protection >>screen in front of my shoppers! on top of that, given heavy traffic (which is >>supposed to be a good thing) a lousy replace function locks up the entire >>database that tracks site preferences because WebCatalog doesn't seem to >>be able >>to do record locking. >>I've had over 7000 visitors today, but only 123 orders (given an average day >>ratio, I should have had over 350 orders) mostly because this site slows to a >>damn crawl under any real traffic. >>This week, I'm installing an NT server. I give it a week, if it doesn't >>improve, >>I declare Webcatalog completely incapable for medium to large sites, and I'm >>gone. >> >> Brian B. Burton >> BOFH - Department of Redundancy Department >>--------------------------------------------------------------- >> MMT Solutions - Specializing in Online Shopping Solutions >> 973-808-8644 http://www.safecommerce.com >> >>Protect your right to own and arm bears. > >Jay Van Vark ******************************* >Pacific Coast Software | eCommerce (WebCatalog) >11770 Bernardo Plaza Court | Site Hosting & Development >Suite 453 | http://www.smithmicro.com >San Diego, CA 92128 ******************************* >619.675.1106 > > ======================================================================== Hewitt Consulting... Business Internet Solutions ======================================================================== www.hewittco.com Larry Hewitt larryh@hewittco.com Hewitt Consulting voice: 360/740-1090 Managing Partner cell: 360/508-6014 fax: 360/740-0998 Larry Hewitt

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