Re: X-Cart 5 beta testing
Normally all issues/bugs should be fixed for free. Any new version which has new features could be charged. When I am switching from Corel X5 to X6 I pay, same for Office, Adobe. We cannot interfere into a company policy. $99 USD/year for updates (I call this new features) is not a big deal for a shopping cart which lives making money, it's just 9.9 bucks/month. But with this fee Qualiteam cannot complain they don't have enough resources to provide good stuff. It is like an investment in a company.
P.S. For many years, ten I guess, XC was more a free shopping cart. I bought my first license in 2008, I could sell it to anyone interested, over 6 years of free updates to new versions just for $145. Please don't be disappointed. If $99 is a big fee, do your upgrade when you need it, even after 2 years. I have to say once again all issues/bugs should be for free. XC5 has automatically updates now so we should not worry about the fixes.
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X-Cart Next: Business 5.2 (learning and testing)
X-Cart Classic: Gold and Gold Plus 4.7
Lots of Modules and Customizations
OS in use: Red Hat Enterprise, Fedora, CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Kali Linux
Ideas for Server configuration (basicaly): Nginx/Pound (reverse proxy), Apache/Nginx (webserver), Squid/Varnish (cache server), HHVM or (PHP-FPM + PHP 5.6 + opcache), MariaDB/Percona MySQL Server, Redis (storing sessions)
You can catch my ideas here: http://ideas.x-cart.com
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