On Apr 28, 2009, at 5:04 PM, Andrew McNabb wrote:
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 04:49:35PM -0600, Kimball Larsen wrote:
Well, specifically, I'm trying to find a happy place for a Magento
install.
Magento is a web store, that makes heavy use of templates and many
layers of dynamic content generation to build its pages. For
example,
to load the homepage of a magento store, you'll execute > 350
individual
php scripts, and there are some functions that will be hit > 17k
times
(yes, THOUSAND).
And you think the solution is to add more hardware?
Initially, no, I was loathe to just throw hardware at it - especially
when I have respectable iron laying around to test it on. It has
taken a few days of trolling on the Magento forums and in irc to get
me convinced I really should slap it on a VPS. The reason I chose the
hosting company I did is because they not only have hardware that will
run Magento well, they have expertise to set up their environment and
the Magento install to run well. In my case, getting the store to run
faster took a combination of better hardware and some configuration
changes, which the folks at my new hosting company provided.
-- Kimball
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