Launch of an ecommerce site

[bruce]

Hey.

Wondering, has anyone here launched a successful (money changing
hands) ecommerce site?

I'm looking to pick the brains of people who've actually launched a
site. No need to reinvent the wheel.

In particular, I'm interested in areas of security for locking the
site down, as well as other operational issues (scaling, redundancy,
cloud, etc..)

Or if you know of anyone who has, and you're up to making introductions!

Thanks

-bruce

[Jonathan Clark]

Bruce, I've done it many times.  There is no one single solution.  At the moment I have two sites that actively sell online and both use completely different systems to do so.  It all depends on the business model ur trying to implement (straight retail and shipping, drop shipping, digital content, large quantity of different products, etc.)
Send me an email directly and I'll do what I can to offer some suggestions on the best system to use based in what your trying to do.

[Essobi]

And I'm a network security engineer if you have any questions about PCI/PII regulations or security intrusions. 

Essobi