[ic] Reliability of IC

[interchange-users@interchange.redhat.com]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Musil [mailto:jim@nettmedia.com]
> 
> As part of my research into interchange, I joined this list to see 
> what kinds of problems developers are running into on a regular basis.
> 
> I think the power and flexibility and open-source support of 
> interchange is amazing, but I'm wondering how reliable it is.
> 
> Is it conceivable that, as an independent developer, I could build 
> out a fairly simple cart/store and then walk away?
> 
> Or to ask is another way, what kinds of nagging problems will come up 
> once the store is up and running?

I know I and several other people are running into a problem where you
don't always get the encrypted credit card information in the email to
your shop owner.  In theory it has to do with a memory allocation
error when spawning gpg (or pgp I think as well), but I haven't been
able to verify that.

This has my customer a bit upset with having to call a customer
and ask for credit card information.  The challenge of this problem
is it only happens once every week or so, so it's hard to track down,
but given the frequency, it's not a showstopper with going live with
a site.

Otherwise, Interchange has been extremely stable for me running
version 4.8.3, on Redhat 7.1.  The site I am running takes about 4 to
8 orders a day with an average order size of just over $60.  Haven't
tracked the page hits on it yet, though, to see how busy it really is.

Patrick Bennett
http://www.ccgenesis.com