Hi guys I was checking out Miva Merchant (under duress). Now that Three's Company is off the air, I get my laughs checking out Miva :) They did have something I wouldn't mind trying to do in IC. It was called maintenance mode, and would allow you to put up a (I guess) site wide redirect to a temporary maintenance page. and lets no customers sign up X minutes prior... etc. What would be involved with something like this? I am guessing Apache would be the force to coordinate with?? I don't have much knowledge in these areas, but if I can have some hints/points to research on... I wouldn't have to research transportation. (future invention being the wheel...) Maybe if I can hash this out with a dev group member, we can have any interested parties pitch in $50 or so... As I am sure "maintenance mode" is low on the dev groups list being that Interchange needs no maintenance... ever 8^) $50 seems like a modest amount, and we could #1 speed up dev on (mortal)user desired functions, and #2 entice smaller business to pitch in money to the devgroup that they could not normally afford to pay for a sizable job, plus have a chance to repay the hard working dev group. In fact, now hat I have your ear, I would like to mention that we have more power as a group, than as individuals. I am sure there are many LIKE businesses using interchange. Let's say there are a handful of people that use IC to sell downloads... said user could team up, possibly share costs on developing ~softgood~centric~ features, that an individual (or small business) would not normally afford. Maybe even go as far as hosting together. I cannot afford to do it right, from the start. I cannot afford 3 dedicated servers, one for shop, one for db, and one for downloads. However if I had three members, and we pitched in for 3 servers, we could all use them in an IC-geard for download kinda way, but would cost us the normal cost of having one server. Maybe one member would be from UK, thus enabling the US members to have a (better) EU presence and vice versa. the point is this can be done with alot of shops... subscription services? multi vendor services? malls? team up! share costs, put more money into the devgroups hands, and receive more than you could on your own! I have wasted enough of your time :) However I would like to invite others who sell softgoods (or sell travel) and are interested to at least kick around ideas to contact me... suppressed Thanks Paul _______________________________________________ interchange-users mailing list suppressed http://www.icdevgroup.org/mailman/listinfo/interchange-users
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