posted on November 7, 2004 11:44:33 AM new
I AM WONDERING IF I HAVE 50-75 AUCTIONS GOING AT ONE TIME WILL THIS GREATLY EFFECT THE LOADING TIME OF AN AUCTION. HOW MANY IMAGES DOES THE GALLARY ROATATE AT ANY ONE TIME. WILL ALL THE 50 -75 AUCTIONS SHOW THE GALLARY IMAGE ON EACH AND EVERY AUCTION AND HOW WILL THAT EFFECT THE LOADING TIME FOR THE AUCTION. WILL IT SLOW DOWN THE AUCTION LOADING TIME.
USUALLY ONLY HAVE AT THE MOST 25-30 AUCTIONS AT ANY ONE TIME BUT WITH XMAS WILL HAVE MORE RUNNING THAN NORMAL.
Our Gallery databases hold an unlimited number of items - we import ALL the live items you have on eBay in a month and charge based on that amount (to account for storage, infrastructure to keep the item information updated, etc...). So, for example, on the Silver plan, $2.95 covers the first 100 items we import in a month, and each item over that is 5 cents additional.
In terms of displaying items, for the Marquee skin, in order to keep page load reasonable (you don't want your item taking forever to load just so Gallery has items to scroll through) we initially load a limited set of items. This initial set of items is ALWAYS the most relevant items that are closest-to-end (in the current item's category, if we auto-inserted the gallery and thus know the category). This promotes last-minute buying & bidding on similar items of interest. All your items in a month will, at some point, be in this initial set of items, so, in fact, all the items we import are displayable in the Gallery at some point during the month.
Then, once a user shows interest and interacts with the Gallery (via the scroll arrows or the category browser), we fetch more items from our servers as needed.
If you have any more questions about this, please let us know.
