EVE-Central: Upgrades, new trade tools, and premium services
Many nifty things are afoot for EVE-Central.com. For one, I migrated away from mod_python, which was hanging up the Apache process several times per day for unknown reasons. There was even a monitor script to kill -9, ipcrm, and restart Apache if it wasn’t responding – this horrible restart was happening several times a day. The new EVE-Central.com is running CherryPy as the backend server now – the conversion was quick and painless, plus it performs better (barring any new introduced bugs).
On the new feature front, I’m working on a trade comparison tool for sell orders, trying to find price differences between systems or regions. Its in an alpha prototype stage, so not for public consumption yet. I expect it to launch in a week or two. Here is a link to a sample image.
I’m also mulling over a possible Premium subscription to EVE-Central. Paid in ISK, it would allow access to the aforementioned trade comparison tool, plus other options, such as ad-free view, and the ability to upload “premium” content which would not get pushed to normal users until a small time window had elapsed. Details still sketchy at this point 
Oh, very nice business plan!
Best of luck as I’m sure that you’ve generated much ISK for users.
Comment by weel barrow — April 4, 2008 @ 12:52 am
Hi Kaladr,
don’t you fear that you might lose a lot of users that upload market reports if they were being penalized by your time window? To ask for some isk for the market tool would be ok but the access to the database should be for free. I think that the success of your plans highly depends on the worth of the information stored your database. Maybe you could motivate more people to upload market reports if they could get access to your tool by either paying some isk or by uploading a certain number of market reports.
Regards
Ratcattle
Comment by Ratcattle — April 4, 2008 @ 4:31 am
The time window bit is really hypothetical. Thats probably not a route I would actually end up taking, just something I have considered.
So no feature is set in stone
Comment by Kaladr — April 4, 2008 @ 8:27 am
I thank you for the service you give !
I have a question about the script to embed the link (marketstat_xml) one , i tried the eve-central links alot to find a script to view the market data on my webpage , but it didn’t work, from the feeds to xml and asp and so , is there any example script to enable us to use it in our webpage ?
thank you
Comment by Jim Makanzy — April 19, 2008 @ 8:50 pm