Product Develpoment: Research and Guidance

[Binary LogicParticipant 2351]

Gentleman,

I’d greatly appreciate some feedback or information if anyone has knowledge pertaining to Insurance/ Liability process and procedures, database administration, and light weight software development. I am specifically interested in insurance/liability of high dollar items (i.e. $500k watches, Yachts, Exotic/Collector cars, Mutli-million dollar homes, etc.) , Database Creation/Administration/ Maintenance/ and mobile format coding.

I apologize for being vague. I’ll discuss more in detail as needed.

Thanks.

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[UmbreonParticipant 152]

I can help a little there. Of course since the post is generalized, this will be as well. I’ll be focusing more of the software as I’m not an insurance guru.

Database creation is more about careful planning than anything else. You need to know what will be going in as it’s hard to add more “categories” to your database once you have a whole lot of information. You can make new databases to supplement the old ones, but more databases will slow your search time (unless they aren’t accessed often).

On the admin side, hackers are real. Most of them are kids with DDOS and script tools who think they’re amazing as they know about MYSQL injection. The few that aren’t however, will wreck you. Don’t use MYSQL or .net as they’re full of holes. Make use of hardy server software like Hiawatha and run the server software on top of strapped-down Linux. Change passwords weekly and don’t keep them on your computer even if it’s another computer and in a text file. Don’t rely on extra software to protect the server as each program added between the user and the database will eat resources, instead shoot for not having holes in your main software (database, website, server software, OS) and the rest should work itself out in general.

A well-built database won’t need tons of maintenance outside of occasional software patches. You may want to take the server offline once a night for backups. If you’re dealing with big ticket stuff, get a security guy to spot check for holes. You can do it yourself some, too, but I’d only suggest it if you can get pretty far on HackThisSite as otherwise you just won’t be skilled enough to spot the more advanced holes.

I hope this helped a little!

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