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Originally Posted by Flintboy
Why is it so difficult to run an auction platform/website? I’ve heard nothing but horror stories on how they are run, from bad invoicing all the way to website crashes.
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Because web servers are complicated, and most people who run them are not experts, but they have enough technical skills to build one and have it seem like it's working until their resources get tested in a live auction. Then they are left scrambling to try to figure out why it crashed. Then they fix the issue, or at least think they did, and then they have even more people testing the limits of the server in a future big auction and it crashes again lol.
Also worth noting is that to hire a true expert would probably be prohibitively expensive, and most people with those skills have zero desire to work somewhere like an auction house. They usually prefer a more tech savvy environment.