Migrating Linux servers to 64bit
Ok, I promise to stop these ultra technical blurbs here in the Tradebit blog soon. But in our October update ralley are happening things some merchants here should know of:
We are currently upgrading all web servers from REHL3 to CentOS 4.4 - 64bit.
That involves some testing and could cause one or the other blooper on the site. These updates of the backend should be finished by Tuesday and we will roll out faster quad core servers with ridiculous amounts of RAM and storage - all that is our preparation for the language update we want to have finished on the 15th… right now it looks like we will make it!
The next update is payment related, as requested by so many merchants, to integrate more payment methods. We will, however, rely strongly on PayPal and Clickbank as our payment processors - simply we have excellent experience with these companies. I know that a lot of you have issues with Paypal, but I consider them very conservative and very law-compliant - that will become more and more an issue for bigger merchants. You need to have your sales process, legal questions AND tax reliabilities under full control. Paypal does an excellent job to help you with that…
Back to the update: We will expand (and have already changed that partly) our database speed and the speed of tradebit as an application by implementing a new programming framework on PHP. For that, 64bit speed is preferred and available with the new servers.
We will then also allow file uploads of files bigger than 2 Gigabytes, which is the hard limit with our old FTP servers. The new servers allow up to 24 Gigabytes per file.
Tradebit also suffers currently from heavy file distribution jobs for Antivirus and Antispam software vendors we partner with. That has led to constant download connections of over 1,000 concurrent users on the old web servers! By Tuesday, this problem shall be solved also by adding 3,000 new ports on five new 64bit machines.
So, bare with us - 2 more weeks to gain some power in the back and finish the multi-lingual version.
