Hi Peter Yes Intershop can be load balanced, on a simple level by installing sybase on a separate machine. Or if you have lots of money you could start playing with cisco local directors which would load balance the web side of things.
To be honest I don't know to much about SecureIIS. We use Cisco Pix firewalls here and their are no problems. If you are worried about iis all you have to do is take out the dodgy extensions and apply the latest iis security patches and you should have no problems. I've worked a fair bit with product variations, they're a bit tricky. But if you let me know the specific problem i'll see what I can do hth Mark -----Original Message----- From: Peter Harrison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 31 July 2002 14:16 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ cf-dev ] OT Actinic (speaking from where I used to work) We used Intershop 4, but it conflicted with SecureIIS (application-level firewall from www.eeye.com) and therefore it was no surprise that it was taken out by hackers in China because we couldn't check for buffer overflows in IIS. We had to drop the box and it was never brought up again. Coincidently, nor did we use Intershop again. All e-commerce projects since then were done in CF and did not conflict with SecureIIS. We also had problems with product variations (can't remember what now, but take some time to check it out anyway). I liked the idea of the plugins that came with it. I didn't like the idea that if Intershop moved from Perl to some other language that the plugins would need to be rewritten. Can Intershop be load-balanced (hardware/software)? - Peter H. -----Original Message----- From: Ross Williams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 31 July 2002 12:59 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ cf-dev ] OT Actinic No problems at all - any half-decent developer will pick it up fine. I was playing about with Intershop4 at the time, which was great for our purposes. Can't speak for current versions though. R -----Original Message----- From: Mark Smyth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 31 July 2002 12:43 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [ cf-dev ] OT Actinic Thanks Ross :) What do you make of developing with Intershop? -----Original Message----- From: Ross Williams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 31 July 2002 12:17 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ cf-dev ] OT Actinic I used Systems Union when I was at Candric and they were faultless - recommend them if you go the Intershop route. Took me about 5 days to customise the store templates. The cost for the hosted store was around �250/month I believe, but that was around summer 2000 I think. Anyway - couldn't fault them when we used them, Cheers, Ross -----Original Message----- From: Mark Smyth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 31 July 2002 11:27 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [ cf-dev ] OT Actinic not the expert there i've build a couple of Intershop stores in the past, thats it (i try and avoid intershop where possible so I can concentrate on CF) but we've built and hosted over loads of intershop stores in the past so a couple of the guys who have been here years are real pros. Feel free to give me a buzz and i'll put you through to them 01865 880800 We're also actinic partners, but havn't used it in anger yet. But one of the guys has been evaluating it for us mark smyth -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 31 July 2002 11:05 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ cf-dev ] OT Actinic ok, how about more details of the hosting, to start with. what is required for this? Duncan Cumming IT Manager http://www.alienationdesign.co.uk mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 0141 575 9700 Fax: 0141 575 9600 Creative solutions in a technical world ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Get your domain names online from: http://www.alienationdomains.co.uk Reseller options available! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mark Smyth <mark.smyth@systems To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> union.net> cc: Subject: RE: [ cf-dev ] OT Actinic 07/31/02 09:13 AM Please respond to dev we're an intershop partner here, its a good solution - bit expensive on the hosting side what do you want to know? -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 30 July 2002 10:15 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ cf-dev ] OT Actinic I think just the Business and Developer editions have the content management stuff, but it's pretty vague about what that consists of, so chances are it's pretty simple stuff. thanks for the info. Anyone used Intershop or any other products like this? Duncan Cumming IT Manager http://www.alienationdesign.co.uk mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 0141 575 9700 Fax: 0141 575 9600 Creative solutions in a technical world ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Get your domain names online from: http://www.alienationdomains.co.uk Reseller options available! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "Taz" <chris@cfmast To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> er.co.uk> cc: Subject: Re: [ cf-dev ] OT Actinic 07/30/02 08:56 AM Please respond to dev Duncan, There's a bit of a learning curve to Actinic, although the latest version is a lot better than previous because it links in with Dreamweaver, so modifying the templates is easier. But its still a bit of work if you want to break far enough from the standard layouts. Basically its a good product for the price. Once you've built the templates you just give it to the client to enter all their products. They have the software on their computer and that is used to synchronise the data with the web server, and download the orders. As for content management (other than the catalogue), I didn't even know it had one. What I've done in the past is added a ColdFusion RMS for the news articles, feedback etc. As long as you're not going to do some excessive customisation, its pretty quick for developing the commerce side of the site... but I couldn't give you any idea of how much quicker because it depends on so many things... how quickly you learn how to develop in actinic, what design you want to use, what customisation if any. All that crap. Best bet is to grab the 30 day trial off the site and play with it for a day. Taz ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 5:54 PM Subject: [ cf-dev ] OT Actinic > Can anyone who's ever used Actinic (Catalog, Business, Developer or > whatever), maybe give me their opinion of it? In particular, did it save a > lot of development time? eg did it save upwards of 75% of dev time for > doing the ecommerce section of a site? Or closer to 50%? What about the > Content Management aspects of it - ie for creating and updating content > that isn't part of the products / shop, was it any use or too limited? > > Got a potential client wanting to use it to reduce the development costs of > getting us to do a bespoke solution, and squeezing as much as possible into > it. However if it still requires us to do a lot of work just to get it up > and running properly, overall saving might be minimal, so any information > or opinions on this would be appreciated. > > ta very much > > > Duncan Cumming > IT Manager > > http://www.alienationdesign.co.uk > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Tel: 0141 575 9700 > Fax: 0141 575 9600 > > Creative solutions in a technical world > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Get your domain names online from: > http://www.alienationdomains.co.uk > Reseller options available! > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For human help, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For human help, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For human help, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For human help, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For human help, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For human help, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For human help, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For human help, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For human help, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For human help, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For human help, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
