On Fri, 2012-03-02 at 09:47 +1300, Kent Fredric wrote: > On 2 March 2012 09:37, Steve Holdoway <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Magento is the second one. For eCommerce, what else would you use. Tuned > > right, it really flies which is what Google tells you is important... > > tenths of a second count! I love it. > > Be careful with that, I've heard nasty horror stories as to what > happens as your product database grows. My contacts who've had to work > with it tell me it really doesn't scale well. > > That, and Magento last I checked was basically a lot of pretty veneer > bolted on top of the old "osCommerce" , which is a delightful piece of > work I'm proud to say I refuse to touch again with a barge pole as the > code that makes it work is an unholy atrocity. > > And I think Perl is awesome, so use *That* as your comparison point ;) > Perl, I remember the day Larry Wall sold it to an idiotic public... yeuch! The world has been a bit less understandable ever since.
Magento *does* scale well. We just fixed one for a Swiss company that ran it's site in 3 languages... which multiplied its catalogue up to about a quarter of a million products. Dual quad core Xeons and 16GB memory barely get warm now. (BTW that's what *they* wanted, just in case). Also fixed daily deals site: previous setup: vmware 24 cores, 64 GB memory. Now uses 10 cores, 4GB when on TV! Shame they got roped into a 2 year contract... Magento is built on top of the Zend framework. It has absolutely nothing to do with osc, zencart, or any of the previous generation. Except learning from it's mistakes (: Cheers, Steve -- Steve Holdoway BSc(Hons) MNZCS <[email protected]> http://www.greengecko.co.nz MSN: [email protected] Skype: sholdowa
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