[ic] restarting cart problem

[Mike Heins]

Quoting Onegig (onegig@1gighost.com):
> >     Can someone either provide links or briefly articulate what the
> > myriad of serious problems with
> > using CPanel's Interchange iplementation are.  Plus what exactly is
> > meant by CPanel's Interchange iplementation.
> > I'm not trying to be picky I'm just trying to understand what I'm
> facing
> > and decide
> > if it is worth the effort or not.
> > 
> > Thank you.
> > 
> > Jon
> 
> My own experience was this, 
> 
> 	Spent countless hours making the thing fit my use. Pages, items,
> etc.
> 	Actually started to like what I had even,  Then trouble. 
> 	
> 	cPanel apparently upgraded from version 4.8 to 4.9
> 
> 	I lost most of my work, I managed to recover most of it, however
> I 	lost the ability to "add items" via the interface and had to do
> it 	directly to database, my best guess was some kind of a problem
> with 	the db tables. Only fix I was able to come up with by myself
> 	was to dump the cart and start over.

And there you have the problems with using CPANEL for Interchange.
Even then, with a couple of hours of paid support from a real IC
consultant, you probably would have been back in business. But I
would not do it, and most IC consultants wouldn't do it, because
it is suicide to try and run Interchange on CPANEL. I have a policy
of not working on any CPANEL installation (other than to help in
migrating away from it.)

I officially disavow all support for Interchange under CPANEL, and I
believe that most of ICDEVGROUP agrees with me. We did not make the
decision to put it in there, and if we had been consulted we would have
advised it not be put in there. In fact we made that recommendation to
CPANEL recently.

Very shortly, we will publish new system requirements for using
Interchange. They include:

   -- Terminal (ssh or telnet) access to the machine
   -- Ability to start and stop the Interchange daemon process
   -- Minimum of 256M of dedicated memory available to the daemon
   -- Dedicated server IP address for SSL support

In fact, those have been the defacto system requirements for years,
and are stated in the FAQ.

If your installation doesn't meet those requirements, you are on your
own. No help here. People using CPANEL and Interchange don't meet the
requirements.

Don't think I am dissing CPANEL itself. It has its place and does a
good job in that place. That place should not include Interchange.

So you are right. If you really want to use Interchange, migrate away
from CPANEL. If you want to use CPANEL, migrate away from Interchange.
It is that simple.

-- 
Mike Heins
Perusion -- Expert Interchange Consulting    http://www.perusion.com/
phone +1.513.523.7621      <mike@perusion.com>

Being against torture ought to be sort of a bipartisan thing.
-- Karl Lehenbauer