Colorado Web Solutions

Yahoo! Store Infrastructure Improvements

Posted on February 28th, 2008 by Colorado Web Solutions - Yahoo Store Developers and Designers

In response to the crash of Cyber Monday on the Yahoo! Servers, Yahoo! has preemptively made some great improvements to their delivery of your stores. Here’s the information that Yahoo! Merchant Solutions posted:

Here in Small Business, we’ve been making improvements to our systems that we’d like to share with you. Merchants often ask about how we preserve their store data, and rightly so. In addition to regular backups, copying data within the primary data center, and replicating data to a remote data center in a different geographic location, going forward your store’s data will also be published to multiple data centers simultaneously. This has the following benefits:

• Similar to our image-caching technology, which uses a content delivery network, shopper requests for your store’s pages will now be served by the closest available data center to the shopper. This should improve page serving times and the overall reliability of shoppers interacting with your site.
• Should a major event such as a natural disaster occur and one data center becomes unavailable, the other data center can service all requests with limited impact to your shoppers. Previously a major data center outage would mean bringing the other data center online before being able to service requests.

We’ve also made improvements to our overall network architecture. Key benefits include:

• More than double the order-taking capacity for our checkout systems.
• Double the front-end serving capacity, allowing us to handle twice as much traffic to our page serving systems.
• Improved ability to quickly add capacity to handle sudden increases in traffic.

The needs of our merchants are important to us. We remain committed to continually improving our systems so we can meet these needs, now and in the future.

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Colorado Web Solutions Partners with goDataFeed.com

Posted on February 27th, 2008 by Colorado Web Solutions - Yahoo Store Developers and Designers

Colorado Web Solutions is pleased to announce a new partnership with GoDataFeed.com. Go Data Feed is a data feed management solution integrated perfectly with Yahoo! Merchant Solutions Stores. This partnership will allow our clients to easily list their products on sites like Shopzilla, NexTag, PriceGrabber, Froogle (Google Product Search) and more.

GoDataFeed has developed seamless integration with yahoo Stores that will automatically extract your most current product data and import it directly into the GoDataFeed System.

This partnership will empower our clients by offering an affordable, time-saving tool to improve visibility and performance on the major comparison shopping sites. It’s all automated and automatically optimizes your product listings for each individual search engine.

If you are interested in increasing your sales online, we can’t say enough about the services and support that GoDataFeed offers to our clients.

To sign up for their 30 day $0.99 trial or to learn more, please click here.

If you’d like to see a list of the shopping comparison sites compatible with goDataFeed and Yahoo! Store, please click here.

GoDataFeed invites Colorado Web Solutions’ clients to take advantage of their $0.99 risk-free trial for the first month and discover they can do for your Yahoo! Store including:

• A Fast & Easy way to Submit Yahoo! Store products
• An Affordable $49.99 Flat Rate for Unlimited Feeds to 20+ Shopping Sites & Affiliate Networks (up to 5,000 products)
• Built-in Optimization and Categorization for All Shopping Engines
• Real-Time Analytics and ROI Feedback
• Free Feed Setup Assistance

To sign up for their 30 day $0.99 trial or to learn more, please click here.

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