The TrackDollar Central

This is where I sat for hours and hours to build the TrackDollar Website.

I like this! Where do you write all of the code for the site? VS Studio 2010? Netbeans? Or something else?

Do you have physical access to the server on which this website is stored? Or is everything done via FTP?

Hello,

physical access to the server: the 1st 6 month of TrackDollar, there the server was installed in my home. However, I don't know about the rest of the States, but here in San Antonio, I pretty much experience a power loss during every thunder storm. So now TrackDollar is on a rented Server Company somewhere in PA.

The Server itself is written in DELPHI (I decided to use the Pascal dialect (C++ is possible too), in my opinion the best Compiler out there). The database is MS SQL 2005 EXPRESS (the free version, lol).

All HTML and JAVA code was written from scratch in a normal text editor, also most of the HTML Reports are created on the fly from the Delphi Code, meaning these html files do not really exist.

Why is TrackDollar faster than some other websites? Well I am not using a Standard Server (apachee, ms internet). I decided to just write a normal Win32 Execute with Delphi opening the Internet Server Port 80. By doing this you pretty much have no limits about what your doing with this server software, only because of that most of the real time update functions are possible.

So often, while checking my log file, I am laughing seeing all the Hacker in the world trying to hack into the "Standard Server" Ports. They won't find one on TrackDollar, lol.

@Aaron: there are free student version from delphi out there, check it out.

Markus