New Server & Data Center Store Online
By Jason Sherrill
Posted on Jun 4, 2008
If you're into geeky technology hardware like I am, then you may find some sweet data center doodads in the new online server & data center products store that we just created to try out a new e-commerce software application.
The site contains only products that we use in our own data centers or those that we manage for our clients. We've learned through experience which products are reliable and perform well, so you might as well benefit from our knowledge.
We're selling many of the $1,000+ products on the site at cost + 1%, with lower priced items at cost + 5%. We also replace equipment, such as servers, tape drives, NAS & SAN devices and other networking devices fairly often, so we may start selling our used equipment through an Outlet category as well.
We're currently toying with the idea of donating some or all of the profits from each sale to charity. One concept we're mulling over is to modify the checkout process of this e-commerce application to allow you to choose during checkout which charity you'd like us to donate the profit of you purchase to.
Basically, this is a fun way for us to experiment with a new e-commerce platform that may possibly replace our current application of choice, AspDotNetStoreFront. But the primary point of this blog post is to (a) tell you about the site, and (b) to get some link love from search engines.