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Backend: Have a look backstage

This column will provide a few insights into Coobico's technical bricks-and-mortar here and there.

This column will provide a few insights into Coobico’s technical bricks-and-mortar here and there – starting with the server-software powering Coobico.
Backend-wise Coobico’s premise is a cost-effective server-solution with good scaleability and stability when handling larger server-loads. There are quite a few open-source-chatservers around, written either in Python or Java; the problem, however, is that most of them don’t offer any specs on how many users they can handle under which circumstances.

Coobico will therefore be driven by Smartfox-Server, a product from the guys of Gotoandplay.it (give it a glance, if you don’t know Gotoandplay yet). Smartfox is running on Java, but capable of coping with thousands of users at a time under the right environment. Currently, the biggest and most popular chat-app on Smartfox is Club Penguin, a pre-teen-chat with several millions of registered users. Club Penguin, by the way, was sold to Disney for a whopping US-Dollar 350 million at the start of August. 

Update: With the advent of Smartfox-Server’s new Bluebox-extension, will can assure that Coobico will be playable even in a corporate environment behind thick firewalls and proxies – the coffee-break is covered, phew…

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