Been a couple of difficult months since the last auction

[Steve]

Just a quick note to say things have been difficult here since we had the last auction due to Covid finally catching up with me and the rest of the family involved. This intern put us behind at Tooltique which has needed our most urgent attention to keep the stock flowing in both directions.

Thankfully we have got through this and luckily it came a week after we sent our last parcel out for the actual tool auction.

We are still developing the auction system behind the scenes which will be lighter & faster relieving much of the stress on our server, caused when the auctions are finishing. The server was having to handle over 300,000 queries per minute so as you can appreciate when the site matures this will increase.

The first tool auction was a huge learning curve in this regard.  The rebuild will also allow us to put in the foundations for other parts we want to add in the future, again learnt from our first experience with our own auction system.

So, although there doesn’t seem to be much going on on the website at the moment there has been loads of things happening in the background.

Regards Steve

 

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