ok, the situation is pathetic… they are hosted in a minimal classic setup, a single dedicated server. what is pathetic? they got a deal, long time ago, where they had good host at low cost. that means all the time that the host can decide to raise the package cost or close the hosting due to over-usage of bandwidth…
that’s what they got yesterday. it’s beed 3 weeks since they were noticed by their host that they have to move the site to some other big service… they took the advice too slow and they were closed without further notice because their service is too big… checking licenses, load of guest visitors, etc…
i have nothing about the host, they had to choose a bigger one. what i hate is the gadgets vbcredits.com use for license checking… expandable and over-use of callback, this is pathetic.
their license check is daily, one when you enter the admincp, the other in the daily cron. you can not avoid it as the engine is encrypted and do not work without these files. i talk about vbCommerce here, as vbCredit is not encrypted yet.
so they have a solid licenser… John was proud of it, and i told him that it would cause a lot of trafic and troubles… so there it is, their site is down, nobody can use their vbCommerce in the last 2 weeks, because they can not check their license, so a ton of sites are dependable to their own…
i NEVER want a crap like that.
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that probably isn’t good..
My idea for a license system is a news XML feed that also just checks the domain in our licenses DB. Also with this feed we have another file that has paramters of Last update on the client side and it checks to see if we have posted some thing newer, if we have it downloads the new articles into the clients DB, so we don’t have constant client to our site interactions and because the file that checks for newer articles only will print out a 1 or 0 it saves overall bandwith. How does this sound?
xml feed? it feels like something i suggested years ago.. lol
yeah, a system similar to the one we created for wordpress… if the main server is down, the only thing it does to the client side is to not receive the feed, as a rss is only echoing once…
Yeah and we just have a simple PHP script make the RSS feed
is it possible to make that verif script loading without having to load global.php ??
like calling /includes/config.php would be enough… making the whole process way smaller than the bothering init from vb!
Yeah look at the mod vbexternal, that is the setup we need
Oh, btw, Zero’s stuff is also under my hand now, i just wait some new versions from Zero to put online.. 🙂
Oh that’s good.. So all of vb.orgs old top coders mods are under your control lol
that’s the goal, and that’s what these guys are wanting… being against their will, i would have to pay for these hacks to be overtaken, but they usually are very happy to see this for a change.. like you see in my section of releases, they all write a take-over note to avoid any problem.. 🙂
ok, and we see what with the releases engine… hum, good !