Just had a discussion about it with our web programmer, and we've come up with a problem. Say people go to studentsoftware.ie and wish to purchase a product, they will have to be taken to the online shop on micromail.com. No problem there, but say now they want to keep that product in the cart and go back to studentsoftware.ie and maybe buy something else. Theres no way to keep track of their cart as they go between the two sites (as far as i know?). The only solution I can think of is therefore to put a whole online purchase mechanism on the studentsoftware.ie site, or else just go with the other idea and use studentsoftware.ie only as an easy to remember alias which will redirect permanently to micromail.com/students.htm. Are these the only 2 options we have?

Of course there is a way to keep track of the cart.
Use the database to store the cart details, create an id for each user and add it to the cart item and also save it as a cookie.
The browser will keep track of the cookie itself and just compare it and retrieve cart.

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There's more than one way to skin a cat and a competent programmer will be able to work around this sort of perceived issue

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Well i only briefly discussed it with him, but if its possible he'll know how to do it, the mans a genius when it comes to programming. But I just worry whether going down a complex route could end up in lost sales if there are issues such as disabled cookies etc. Anyway i'm meeting with him again tomorrow so i will mention what you've both said and we'll see what happens. Thanks for the advice.

Could someone tell me, would it be advised to get a shared or dedicated IP address for the studentsoftware domain? I would have thought shared since it wont be a very big site but since there will be a shopping cart will i require an ssl and therefore a dedicated domain? Also, should I change micromail.ie to a shared IP since now all it does is redirects to micromail.com?

If you are going to run an SSL on a domain you need a fixed IP.
This shouldn't cost you anything extra.

micromail.ie doesn't matter, as it's being redirected. It would make sense that it was on the same ip as the .com

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i thought having the .ie on the .com's ip address was bad? I was told by everyone on the last thread not to have the same IP for the two and to set up a proper redirect instead, which is what we've finally done. Do you think i'll need an ssl for the new domain if the actual credit card ordering will be done on the .com?

I don't think anyone told you that. The main thing was that your redirects needed to be setup properly



Are you collecting any personal data on the new domain?

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Perhaps not, i just thought thats what Gavin meant when he said So you suggest having a dedicated IP for .com, and a shared IP for the .ie, and have it the same as the .com? Wouldnt that make the .com shared too? (sorry i know thats probably a stupid question to those in the know).

Hmm havent decided yet, but originally probably not, it will just be a resource for info, and any orders will go through to the .com, but a month or 2 down the line we'd hope to maybe have an optional log-in? Should I just go dedicated now to keep our options open for later?

Nah you misunderstood what I meant. I was talking in regards to when you uploaded onto one domain it appeared in the other which is down to the configuration.

I was suggesting using the different dedicated IP's as they are there to use so why not make use of them?

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