A disaster in the making

The world fruitcake supply has been jeopardized by an eCommerce snafu:

I could hear the frustration in his voice as Brother Barnabas described the year’s chaos in trying to upgrade his Web site so that it could handle more orders. A year ago, this Cistercian monk at Holy Cross Abbey in Berryville, Va., was trying to find better ways to earn money for his highly regarded operation.

The monks at this abbey are known around the world for making the best fruitcake on the planet. They sell the fruitcakes, along with a few other products, to support the abbey and their charitable activities.

Problem was, their e-commerce site was antiquated, and they badly needed to move to something with more capacity and better security. The means to accomplish this was to have more bandwidth installed, and to update their e-commerce solution.

Unfortunately, it didn’t work.

There’s more, telling the whole sad story.

You can always try my own fantastic fruitcake recipe.

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