Amazon Affiliate program WORKS!

**Shawn** · 12-12-2003, 11:57 AM

Amazon, fix thee!

**chromate** · 12-12-2003, 01:01 PM

If google decides to crawl you when the feed is down, it could really mean trouble.

I think if I were using AWS I would be caching pages, just in case. Hmmm. In fact no, realistically and if I'm being honest, I probably wouldn't bother. lol. But in a perfect world I would. No hang on - in a perfect world, the feed would never go down. Oh, you get my drift!

Haha

**Shawn** · 12-12-2003, 01:10 PM

Retarded? ;p

**GCT13** · 12-12-2003, 01:39 PM

Originally posted by chromate
If google decides to crawl you when the feed is down, it could really mean trouble.

That's part of the fun.

My pages are cached for one hour. Amazon wants prices updated every hour. It's on a timer so when you have extended outages like today you're still in trouble when the cache expires.

I'm working on something more advanced that will cache data to a database. I'll be able to update different pieces of data at different times (like price every hour, everything else every 24 hours), and it'll provide an okay layer for when the feed goes out of whack. So if we have a day like today when 50% of requests are getting errors, it'll just use the data in the database.

**Chris** · 12-12-2003, 02:46 PM

You could configure it so that if the feed goes down it does not reset the cache.

**ozgression** · 12-12-2003, 05:42 PM

Originally posted by Mike
Well done Shawn

The 1% from Dell is just like Amazon's commision if you think about it Chris though. $500 computer sold is $5 commision on dell, $100 phone is also $5 commision on amazon

Not really. It's alot harder to sell a $500 product than a $100 product.
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**Shawn** · 12-12-2003, 08:21 PM

Yep. The cheaper a product is, the less justification for the purchase the consumer has to create.

**Chris** · 12-12-2003, 11:36 PM

Amazon also sells computers.

One awesome thing is they'll be removing the $10 per item cap for the next quarter, which should really help sellers who sell the higher priced items.

**Shawn** · 12-13-2003, 12:42 AM

There are a good amount of phones $200+, so that is pretty awesome.

**Mike** · 12-13-2003, 02:57 AM

That's a good thing yea. I was going to sell things through amazon so it's come at the right time for me

**Shawn** · 12-13-2003, 09:03 AM

How's the template site going?

**Mike** · 12-13-2003, 09:07 AM

Not bad thanks. I made about $175 so far, not much considering how long it's taken.

Need to work on new sites now though.

BTW, I like your new avatar

**s2kinteg916** · 12-13-2003, 10:11 AM

i think i contributed 1 dollar to that ....

**Shawn** · 12-13-2003, 10:33 AM

Thanks, I like the avatar too

**GCT13** · 12-13-2003, 11:44 AM

Originally posted by Chris
You could configure it so that if the feed goes down it does not reset the cache.

A good idea, although I don't think my current solution will support that. It's built to be as light as possible, for something more robust I've gotta make progress on my database solution I described above.