While I don't believe this is a solution for most developers in this
group, I'll mention this only because you've stated this is a media
company. It strikes me that you may want to consider doing an RIA,
like Flex (SDK is open source), and using PHP as a service. In fact,
I'll be doing one myself this spring.
Why did I choose RIA? First, the user experience is a generation
ahead. I read an article about eComm sites, their carts and conversion
rates The general conclusion was that RIA carts had a 50% higher
conversion rate than non-RIAs. To make their IT happy, Armani
Exchange's eCommerce site converted their Flash-based cart to a new
JSP page driven cart, and immediately suffered a 40% drop in sales.
Hmmmmm. If we hit a recession, that alone could make the difference
between living and dying.
Second, things like error recovery and transaction retries with
traditional carts are a nightmare. This is by the far the biggest
client complaint I always get on carts. RIAs give you state and
security (but not so much with AJAX RIAs). RIAs have no pages to
refresh, no sessions to read and handle, no funky server-side cart
installations. Just immediate, secure, two-way communications, where
the server is not nearly as stressed. And if you don't want to code an
RIA cart yourself, and don't need open source, you can buy one (like
http://www.allurent.com/).
If your contract was won on the back of an open source php-based cart,
then never mind. But speaking for myself, I think I've done my last
non-RIA cart.
-- Cole
Quoting Darrin Keller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
On the down side, X-cart does like lots of elbow room. Some add-on
modules and combinations of modules can make it a resource hog.
We won a contract with a large, well known media company. We'll be
building a store for them. We have a custom store solution. However,
we recently and quite inadvertently, ran a stress test. We had
around 1000 concurrent users trying to checkout and it nearly
crashed our server. Our new client may have as many as 20,000
concurrent users. Is there an open source solution that could handle
this? If not, is there anyone on this list who specializes in
balancing and optimization/performance tuning?
Along these same lines, we are growing and need a senior developer
(5-7 years experience).
Thank you,
Darrin Keller
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