Magento Optimization and Speed Problems |
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| by Oscar Sodani | |
| October 29, 2008 | |
 Oscar Sodani is a founder of Help2Go and owner of Help2Go Networks, an IT consulting firm in the Washington D.C. area. Oscar holds the CISSP certification as well as industry certifications from Microsoft, Cisco and Novell. First, I made sure that I had mysql query caching turned on. A complete tutorial for this is available here. More in-depth mySQL tweaking can be found here. Notes from Magento are here.
UPDATE: In the end, I abandoned Magento. The speed problems never went away and the backend system kept hanging on me. The company's responses to the problems in the forums were non-existent. I hope they get their act together. In the meantime, I'm using Prestashop, another open-source e-commerce application built on PHP and mySQL. It is blazing fast and easy to use, and while it doesn't have all the features of Magento, it is much better turn key solution for smaller stores.
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