Replies to post #73633 on Mike Lindell Media Corp (MLMC)

[fringe_remnant]

xan

If they are not building in scalability to this system they are developing then something is very wrong.

I personally feel (and this is only conjecture) that all this talk about delay due to system tweaking is a red herring. I am surprised that you are contributing to it.

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[digitick]

Here's a shot at it...from my limited experience, anyway:

1) In most cases, yes. The software could be easily updated.

2) Servers are typically just purchased in much the same way as they're configured and ordered by an average home user on dell.com (or other site). And the beauty is that the old server can still be used. You can purchase additional servers and 'cluster' them together (assuming you have the software to do that)...making them act as one server. Each server gets an equal share of the incoming web traffic ('load-balancing'). Also, if one server goes down, the site remains up, because you have at least one other up and running. As far as programming goes, it really depends on how extensive the site is, and how many programmers they've got. For a full e-commerce site (as this is), several months to a year could be an appropriate time-frame if they only had a couple programmers.

3) Testing can take a couple of months....and again, it depends on the number of testers and how complex the site is.

4) Some bugs are easy, and others are hard to fix...but how frequently they're found, is tough to gauge.

[Bruce A Thompson]

Xan, I only have one answer.

Rackspace.com As big as you wanna be in about an hour.

BT

[martyMAC]

xanadu: I think CC is BETA testing internally now. In light of the GZFX site being pulled into the CC site via an I-frame. The GZFX database and overall web site should be on load balanced servers and the web site and database are dynamic; which means items, components can be added on the fly without much effort.

BETA secure commerce is simple as well. Run a few test transactions and then credit those transactions back. I think there is a test number supplied by VeriSign or whomever they decide to use for secure commerce.

Once the “shell” or “style sheets” are established; links, inventory, graphics are fairly easy to update and maintain. It’s mostly “dynamic” and pull up the requested elements “on-the-fly.”

I was the former Creative Development Director for http://www.visionone.ws for many years and we developed a ticketing system as an alternative to Ticketmaster. Some concerts we supported, such as U2 required our servers to handle ON SALE (first few hours) and they were HIT HARD with traffic.

If done right, after complete BETA, all they really do is “Flip-the-switch” and whammy… up and live.

Peace.