I've noticed as I get older, many things based around technology seem more confusing, so please bear with me.

I understand what Converge does (I hope) and there's a chance there's no need for it on my network... however I'm interested to know if there is?

My Network is set up as follows:

Portal Site - Built around an IPB forum which only staff use, it has a contact us system modification for IPB, other than that its just HTML pages with info, although staff have had to register a new account on that database.

Site 1 - 8000 members (has its own Database)

Site 2 - 7000 members (" " own database)

Site 3 - 200 members (" " own database)


Question One:
If I were to now installed IP.C based on the fact I have four IPB's all with their own database, I assume I'd set it up on my portal site. However most members form site 1 are probably not interested in using site 2 or 3... so I would assume that would defeat the point in using IP.C or are there other advantages I'm missing?

Question Two:
Obviously for the minority of members who does use sites 1, 2 and 3 then that would be useful for them... how would IP.C now be installed when those members alrwady have two sets of login details on two different sites?

Question Three:
Does this end up making one very large database which is prone to heavy loads, hacking etc?

Again, please excuse any stupid questions I've asked.

Regards

Jim

You could say it would "defeat the purpose" I suppose. It's primary focus is to centralize login details so that users can use the same login details in multiple systems/sites. If you don't have a need for that, you won't need Converge.



For those users, yes this would be beneficial. What would happen is as you install each site into Converge, it will allow you to keep the user's current login details (if that user has already been imported), use the new login details from the current import, or show the duplicate users in a list afterwards so you can manually keep which account you want and remove the other. Most likely this won't be an issue, however, as most users tend to use the same login details at each site anyways..



Yes, you end up with one larger database of login details (though each site still retains a local record of the account). We have had no reports of heavy loads or hacking with Converge to date however.

Brandon,

Thanks very much for your reply.

Regards

Jim