Question about your servers

alMember

As you will be able to tell from the following questions I have no idea about servers.

Hopefully you can explain something to me so I can understand why we couldn't use images yesterday and back in post-CHRISTMAS.

Does each server handle a specific need? Does one server handle date like listings and another one handles images? If not then does each server handle a part of the world? Does one server handle everything and then when it is full does it transfer over to a new server?
Does these servers handle only images and not listings and profiles, etc.

If they handle data such as listing, etc why would you have it save listings (Auctiva Ended Listings) that already ended. That would seem like it would take up a lot of room. It also seems that the ended listings category has listings that from ebay. I have spent the last hour deleting ended listings and still have more to do. I am deleting 100 at a time but it seems like it is never going to end. I recently closed all my ebay auctions to do some revising using just Auctiva. I think auctiva has picked up those auctions. If a seller wants to relist an item they can find it on ebay as they save up to 60 days. Wouldn't this clear up a lot of room on a server or servers if used for that purpose?

I know you stated in my thread last night for people to delete images to help clear up the servers so I thought why clear up listings as well

3/1/0612:16 PM

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auctivakevinkVP Engineering

Al,

Maybe I can clear up a couple of your questions...

There are basically 4 types of servers in the Auctiva system.

1. Web servers. This is what you connect to while you are browsing and using the site. We have multiple web servers that are in a round robin rotation and when you connect to Auctiva you'll get connected to one of these servers.

2. Processing servers. For things like actually posting the listing to eBay, reconciling auction info (with latest prices). These are on seperate servers to make sure people browsing the website are not slowed down by this processing. We can add more servers as needed.

3. Image servers. Your images are stored on one of our multiple image servers and backed up to a different server. The users are divided amongst the different image servers. So, when one went down yesterday, it only affected a portion of our users. We can add more as we grow and put new users on the new image servers.

4. Database server. Holds our database.