and BOOM...the mint's site crashes
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Many folks have used some, or all of that technology to build sites that scale very well and can also cope with peak traffic.
Amazon's problem is a "christmas rush" problem. This is a "christmas rush" style lockout, but at a different time.
Too bad the folks designing the US Mint website do not know how well this can be dealt with.
Perhaps they feel it works good enough for their purposes and they do not care to change it.
<< <i>Amazon's problem is a "christmas rush" problem. This is a "christmas rush" style lockout, but at a different time.
Too bad the folks designing the US Mint website do not know how well this can be dealt with.
Perhaps they feel it works good enough for their purposes and they do not care to change it. >>
Amazon has competition from other retailers selling the same items.
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<< <i>Amazon's problem is a "christmas rush" problem. This is a "christmas rush" style lockout, but at a different time.
Too bad the folks designing the US Mint website do not know how well this can be dealt with.
Perhaps they feel it works good enough for their purposes and they do not care to change it. >>
Amazon has competition from other retailers selling the same items. >>
I don't mean the main "www.amazon.com" website.
I mean the underlying technology. The stuff you would use to build your own high volume website. They sell that too. Many retailers currently use websites that are built with that technology, and those retailers do sell the same retail products that the "www.amazon.com" website does.
It's about the web technology underlying the website. It's easy to build a website, but hard to make one that scales under any circumstances. The US Mint has made a site that is poor at scaling. There are companies out there that provide services that can help with that.
That is, if you want to sell more products. If you are okay with not selling a maximum amount of product to the market, then perhaps it is not so important how well your website runs under load.
<< <i>I don't mean the main "www.amazon.com" website.
I mean the underlying technology. The stuff you would use to build your own high volume website. They sell that too. Many retailers currently use websites that are built with that technology, and those retailers do sell the same retail products that the "www.amazon.com" website does. >>
Ah, got it. Doesn't change the point, though. When customers can't go elsewhere for something they really want, you don't have to worry about losing sales with an underpowered website. They'll pour gasoline on themselves and light a match if that's what it takes to give you money.
Consistent service across all platforms is very important you know.
Sorry....couldn't resist as when I saw his name highlighted in the thread I thought it was about NGC
They just have a funked up webserver, and customer service, and ...
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<< <i>20 minutes of trying and I can't get the opening page to load with a DSL line in So Cal. >>
Definite East Coast bias.