So I’ve put Hookbox through more testing. I’m still using Hosted Hookbox, and that really helps me focus on testing prior to deployment.
Here are some positive findings:
- The best thing about using Hosted Hookbox during its early days is that I’m always testing with the latest versions.
- It fully supports publishing internationalized characters. I tested with chinese and european characters.
- It does a good job of escaping special characters. I sent a fairly complicated XML through, and received everything perfectly.
- Integrating with Actionscript was a breeze, using watched variables.
On the negative side, I did experience one server hang. That was after publishing some really large xml numerous times. I had to restart the hosted hookbox server and all was good. HOWEVER, the clients don’t auto-connect, which will be a big concern moving forward.
Since testing is going well, we’re going to go live soon (within a month). Which makes me nervous since Hookbox is not yet version 1.0. It’s still at v 0.3.4dev.
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Hi,
how are things going with the implementation?
Can you please tell me which server you are running this app on? is it apache?
and would it would work for 10K+ simultaneous users?
Thanks
Hey Adam,
I’m running the app on a VPS running Red Hat EL5. It’s not running apache. Hookbox runs as a standalone server. So my apps connect directly to it.
I doubt it would work with 10K users. We haven’t rolled it out to our general userbase yet. The problem right now is that it stops running randomly, and we haven’t dived in yet to see what’s the problem.