> > 2- On the VPS, the most serious requirement is likely to be the amount > of dedicated ram. A store should have about 160 KB, so 256Kb is > sufficient for a store, and 128k may be ok for small stores and low > traffic.
are you sure that you mean the sizes in KB (kilobytes) and not in MB (Megabytes)? ~Shakthi On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 3:20 PM, kbochert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am wondering just what it takes to host one or more Satchmo stores. > > Here's some rules of thumb that I am using. These are the guesses of > an inexperienced developer (me) , so I'm hoping for corrections or > amplifications. > > A typical Satchmo store, for the purposes of these rules, is a single- > location brick-and-mortar store or a home business with maybe 100-1000 > products. > > 1- Using a shared hosting account is iffy. Performance may vary wildly > depending on the host's policies and the other sharers.Perhaps > acceptable for a personal store but not for one sold to others. > > 2- On the VPS, the most serious requirement is likely to be the amount > of dedicated ram. A store should have about 160 KB, so 256Kb is > sufficient for a store, and 128k may be ok for small stores and low > traffic. > > 3- Multiple stores using the 'multi-store' module requires relatively > little extra memory. Assume up to 6 stores with 256k ram, and 16 with > 512k > > 4- Multiple individual stores should have about 60k ram per > additional store, so a 256k VPS could host 2 stores, and a 512k VPS > could host about 7 stores. > > Am I wildly off-base here? Does someone have a better approach to > figuring the hosting resources required? > > Karl > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Satchmo users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/satchmo-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
