Penny Auction Script Developer’s Top Secrets
What other Penny Auction Script developers will not tell you.
Running a penny auction site is a very tough business. Had it been as simple as it looks, there would have been millions of websites generating money. In reality, most of the websites are struggling daily with technical and marketing issues instead of generating the expected revenue.
No software is ideal, but some are farther removed from ideal than others. Here are some tips that might allow you to select a fitting penny auction script.
Penny Auction Script – zillion of features.
Penny Auction software has to have hundreds of features in order to run successfully. You can see our Penny Auction Map and penny auction software features list to understand better what set of features should be considered sufficient.
For example, every software has its variety of user management function, but it might consist of just a simple unmanageable list of users, whereas our software has
- Ability to search users by name, emails
- History of transactions (deposits)
- List of auctions user participated
- Last log in time of the user
- List of referred friends
- Amount of credits
- IP of the user
- List of user credit cards
- Ability to find users from the same IP
- Ability to freeze user
- Ability to add / distract credits from the user
- Ability to edit all user fields…
While basic functionality such as running timers, counting bids etc can be developed by a freelancer in a month or so that ease is deceptive: such solution will look like penny auction script, but will bring more worries than revenues.
Support
After you start your website you will be totally dependent on the quality of the support you get. If something goes wrong, the website reputation suffers. Therefore, a fast and professional support is essential for the success of your website.
If a proposal sounds too good to be true offering “unlimited support”, “eternal support” etc, it probably is. What it’s actually saying is that no support will be provided ever. Supporting a website with 100 daily users is as different from supporting a site with 10,000 users, as, for example, having a restaurant that serves 100 guests and 10,000 guests. So, the promise to provide “unlimited support” is a promise to continuously feed 100, 1000, 10,000 guests…
Hiding Faces
Most companies providing penny auction software are not “genuine” companies but rather 1-2 freelancers re-selling the solution. Their primary interest is to sell, while support and maintenance are not their concern. It’s enough to run a Google search for words “fix bidbutler”, “fix penny auction software” to realize how pressing and widespread this problem really is.
Buying cheap script from a company that hides its telephone, address, list of websites that run on this software etc is easy. The biggest problem is that since the faults are not seen immediately the buyer invests a significant capital into improving the software before realizing how grave the situation is. For most software companies in other areas you can easily find name of the owner, employees profiles, etc. The situation for penny auction software industry is totally different.
Performance is a key
Penny Auction Software is a very special kind of software. Its major difference from a regular website is the immense load it creates on the database server. Regular websites require some response from the database only when a user switches between pages. Therefore, if a user visited, let’s say CNN.com and looked at 2 pages, it created 2 database requests. Thus, for an average visit of 1 minute, 3 or 4 database requests are generated for each user. (That is a simplified statement; in reality more than 1 request to database server are created)
For penny auction software the situation is very different. A Penny Auction website gets updates from the server each second for each user! So, if your website has 100 users, it probably makes 100 requests per second. Why should it worry you? Because most of dedicated servers will have a threshold of a few hundreds requests only and if the software is not optimized for the ideal state the result would be massive spending on buying new servers immediately after first advertising campaign.
