HC Blog

I’m thinking this will be a better way to share updates and random thoughts on HC development.

HC has grown a ton since January of this year (going from under 200 stores to over 700!). And while the customer base has been growing, it hasn’t been keeping up with the new vendors. It’s about time to do some heavy advertising, not to bring in more sellers, but more buyers. And I fully intend to do that in the near future, but a few things have to happen first. The main thing is, the site needs to be revamped and re-cast to be completely user-friendly, easy-to-understand for non-hyenas, and beautifully eye-catching. This is all in the works. I’m hoping to have something launched at the beginning of next year. Then we’ll really market the site and bring in the buyers. I’m excited to see where this will all lead and looking forward to bringing more buyers in for the beautiful and high-quality items we’ve got offered here at HC

I switched the databases Friday night and everything seems to be running pretty smoothly. Hopefully with this and the server upgrade, you’ve noticed the site becoming faster to access.

In addition, I’ve made a few more small changes.

1) I wrapped the register and lost password pages in your store’s customization and graphics. So a customer can now enter your store, register, log in, etc. without ever leaving your store’s environment

2) I wrapped the shopping cart and checkout pages of HC Multi in your store’s customization as well. Check it out and make sure everything’s functioning the way it should be.

3) For congos — I changed it so that you can no longer edit a vendor’s id number. There should be no reason to do this since you can now re-order stores using the Order Number and changing vendor id’s usually makes a mess of all the links that have already been established.

Sorry for flooding your in-boxes with so much email the past few days. I believe HC is up and running just about everywhere now. I still need to move the databases, but I will plan to do that either late tonight or late at night next weekend (the site will need to be down during that time).

Please let me know if you notice any issues. I’m especially interested to hear if the Internal Server Errors are now a thing of the past. Let me know via this thread: http://hyenacart.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=11661

Remember, if you’re getting “File not found” errors, it’s probably because the change hasn’t propogated to you yet. In that case, you can access HC using this domain: http://s179648057.onlinehome.us/

Thanks everyone!

Sorry - I know this has not been the smoothest transition in the world. I don’t know what the current problem is. The domain is pointing to the correct directory in my account, but it must still be ‘floating’ between the two servers. The host had assured me that the switch would only take a few hours. Obviously, it has been longer than that. I will call them today — not sure how much help I will get on the weekend. I have a feeling it’s just a matter of time for things to propogate through th web, but unfortunately, I can’t say how long it will take.

In the meantime, the site is fully accessible through http://s179648057.onlinehome.us . For example, the calendar is http://s179648057.onlinehome.us/calendar.php and Blue Grass Moon (just as an example of a site customers want to be able to access *all the time* is http://s179648057.onlinehome.us/BluegrassMoon/ . The forums are viewable at http://s179648057.onlinehome.us/phpbb/

Actually, it looks like some people have access and some don’t because I do see some people viewing and posting on the forum. Hopefully everything will be propogated through soon!