Specs of Salons Subscription System

legLess writes "Scott Rosenburg, Salon's VP of operations, wrote an interesting article for Web Techniques about Salon's subscription system. It goes into a fair amount of technical detail (JavaBeans and JSP on Linux for login and authentication; Perl, HTML::Mason and MySQL (CD: and oracle) for content). He also talks about their subscription numbers, what drove them to do it, and their plans for the future (technical and operational). A little fluffy, but still a good read."

Comments

Re:i'm still not convinced

[Anonymous Coward]

That's not really correct. The majority of their news stories were always pay content (it was one of the first things to get switched to the Premium service). They actually stopped doing that and made all the news free for the first few weeks following 9/11. So they didn't really take the news content away; they just reverted to how it had been.

I like Salon a lot. I don't think $30 is a lot of money for a "magazine" that's updated daily. And I have a hard time believing they would switch their focus and abandon the readers they've attracted over the last 6 years.

/. Crash?

[bstadil]

Slashdot seems to crash a lot ?? What OS / Browser are you using? I have been "member" of /. for years ID 7110 and I can't remember having a slashdot Crash. (Currently using Opera 6.0 on SuSE 7.3)

Here is the url

[Billly Gates]

for my previous comment on phpbuilder.com look here .

more detailed interview on the subscription model

[Kraft]

here. Interview with COO Patrick Hurley from August this year. The interview is very "content provider" oriented and is a good read.