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<blockquote data-quote="GMforPowergamers" data-source="post: 4899385" data-attributes="member: 67338">((((Warning: Point and click guy here..I know nothing of programing...software, hardware...nothing))))I have been involved in two diffrent 'upgrades' of system from the company side. &nbsp; from a driving school and a bank. The driving school I was very close tot he upgrade, and the owner asked me to sit in on the meeting with there tech guys. WHen discussing seamless and down time I ask only 1 quastion...if we took the site down for a long weekend (friday-monday) how much money would we lose...when the answer cam back neglagable my suggestion was, and would be agian &quot;Then why pay more to rush it&quot;&nbsp; the bank I was no where near the techs doing it, but from my (Customer service) POV we had 2 sets of website both working internaly for almost a month. we could switch from the 'live' old site to the 'internal' new site rathr easy&nbsp; (Even having both open on our desktop)...when the change came it was with 5 mins of down time.then again from the other end my car almost got repossed when toyota financial switch systems, and none of my payments made it to there new system. I called to find out the problem and all of my ref numbers where wrong...then they found my whole lease was messed up. 2 years I had been paying, and 23 months of payments were stuck in upgrade..</blockquote>

[QUOTE="GMforPowergamers, post: 4899385, member: 67338"] ((((Warning: Point and click guy here..I know nothing of programing...software, hardware...nothing)))) I have been involved in two diffrent 'upgrades' of system from the company side. from a driving school and a bank. The driving school I was very close tot he upgrade, and the owner asked me to sit in on the meeting with there tech guys. WHen discussing seamless and down time I ask only 1 quastion...if we took the site down for a long weekend (friday-monday) how much money would we lose...when the answer cam back neglagable my suggestion was, and would be agian "Then why pay more to rush it" the bank I was no where near the techs doing it, but from my (Customer service) POV we had 2 sets of website both working internaly for almost a month. we could switch from the 'live' old site to the 'internal' new site rathr easy (Even having both open on our desktop)...when the change came it was with 5 mins of down time. then again from the other end my car almost got repossed when toyota financial switch systems, and none of my payments made it to there new system. I called to find out the problem and all of my ref numbers where wrong...then they found my whole lease was messed up. 2 years I had been paying, and 23 months of payments were stuck in upgrade.. [/QUOTE]

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