Hosting and payment gateways
We're getting nearer to the final hosting solution, and not a moment too soon. I've narrowed it down to two great companies that are putting together hosting proposals for us, in exchange for sponsorship.The solution will have to cope with some pretty big spikes in traffic. At the end of June we'll be on a whole range of morning tv programmes (like BBC Breakfast) and I'm sure that will propel website traffic pretty high. It's been really tough in predicting what traffic levels will be, but I guess so long as we have rapid scalability we should be OK.
With hosting well underway, the only other major area still to be fully implemented is the donation gateway. Someone is going to need to come along and make this market a whole lot simpler! I've heard that it's much easier in the States, but the UK banking system still seems pretty out of date when it comes to online processing. Our problem is that we will be processing 1 million relatively small transactions, and we can pay no more than 2% of the total amount in fees. You'd think that a kind hearted bank would waive their fees due to the fact that every single transaction is a pure donation to charity, but it turns out that kind and hearted are not words in the banking vocabulary (unless it happens to be Bob Geldoff asking of course).
I'm still waiting to hear back Charity Technology Trust and a range of other backup options we have secured.
posted by Paul Fisher @ 1:53 pm
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