New Server Cluster goes live!
Over the last few weeks we have been busy installing new hardware and software in our new data centre in Manchester. We hope to have all our customer web sites moved onto the new servers by the middle of September.
We’ve done extensive testing, and the Phosys system is now capable of distributing the sites over different servers.
During the move, your web site will be available on at least two servers so that you and your customers will not notice any downtime. PC users will have to download the latest version of the software (2.10.5) from www.phosys.com, which will automatically point you the correct server in the new cluster. Web application users should notice no change, as logging into any of our servers will automatically log you in correctly.
We apologise for any inconvienience during the move, but the majority of our customers should not notice any change.
Iain
New Checkout Features
We’ve just finished work on a number of new features for the Phosys Checkout system with more going live tomorrow.
The Checkout will automatically be displayed in the language associated with the users browser. What this means is that if a visitor from the Netherlands (Dutch is our first translated language) visits your site, the Checkout will be automatically translated for them. The currency displayed will still be the currency associated with your shop, and all transactions will be in your currency.
Because other countries don’t require all the address information like the British address system (e.g Title and County), the new basket will only capture information relevant to the country that the shopper is from:
We’re also planning to go live tommorrow with two new Internet Payment Providers – ePay (for our Danish and Scandinavian customers) and Barclays ePDQ.
Focus On Imaging 2008 – A big thank you.
Focus On Imaging 2008 has been our best exhibition ever. A big thank you to all our new customers who’ve signed up at the show, and who have called us since. We are working hard to contact you all and prepare your sites.
This year, as well as the three new monitor screens, we were also using our new 42″ display and a laptop. Unfortunately, at times we still could not demonstrate to everyone who was interested! So apologies if that was you – please give us a call and we’ll demonstrate the main features and benefits over the phone.
It was also nice to have so many of our existing customers visit us and introduce themselves. The comments you made about how pleased you are with our service and the support that we give you is fantastic.
We’re looking forward to Focus On Imaging 2009 and showing you yet more innovations that we build in to our ever advancing software.
The SWPP Convention London
We’d just like to send a big “Thank You” to all the new customers who signed up with us at the SWPP Convention Trade Show at the weekend! We look forward to working with you all, and providing you with an excellent service!
A special congratulations must go out to our existing customer Stuart Bebb, who won “Contemporary Photographer of the Year“, and then went on to win the overall title of “Photographer of the Year“. Well done Stuart! You can view his site and his pictures at www.stuartbebb.com.
Don’t forget that we will be at Focus on Imaging 2008 (www.focus-on-imaging.co.uk) Stand Number G29, and look forward to talking to you there!
Iain
Video Feeds
It is now possible to stream video using Phosys! We’ve incorporated a flash viewer that can play a variety of different formats including mp3, mp4, flv, rtmp, swf, rbs, 3gp and m4v. (more…)
