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Ok, I'll bite

is this sharding or is the whole dbase in each instance if the latter how do you deal with two instances selling the same room on same day ?

It seems nice but do they recieve updates from each other or is it fed in from the back end. Either way the nice simplicty gets all confused haning updates



Does RoomKey actually sell individual rooms, or just hotel bookings? I've never used it, but looking at the site, it seems like it's just selling "a room at a hotel", rather than "a particular room at a hotel".


Hi, I'm the author. We are a new online travel agency (OTA), like pricline, et. al., but different in that we don't take the booking - we send you off to the actual hotel website to book.


So the hotels have finally worked out lastminute.co is bad for them and started offering affiliate fees? Interesting - that could open up a lot of options - is that how it's working for you?


I'm not complaining. :)


Since we send the visitor off to the owning hotel chain's website to book, we don't have to manage the complexity of update such as you're describing.




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