Re: [cobalt-users] Performance of OSCommerce on RaQs?

[Greg Hewitt-Long <cobaltusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>Well, since we started a conversation on E-Commerce and stuff, I am
>curious performance and dynamic sites. Anyone have a lot of OSCommerce
>(or similar) sites running on a RaQ4? How is the performance/how many do
>you have?


Not lots - but the load is really minimal on the few we have - far less than most systems we've tried out.  and a LOT less than Miva Empressa engine.

>
>I had a client who put up a shopping once on a RaQ4i I have and he
>absolutely dogged out the server, really messing with the performance. I
>suspect his cart (don't remember which) and his configuration were to
>blame, but the experience made me wonder about the ability of RaQ4s to
>handle dynamically generated sites effectively.


We have one client with Actinic Business and they have 11,000+ products - the killer used to be the search results - generating pages of results and parsing the HTML files producted was a killer - I trialled a migration to oscommerce with 12500 products - it wasn't a problem at all.

>
>I have a few basic sites that are dynamic (people running PHPNuke, etc),
>but they are low traffic too. When I got ready to get into carts, I got
>some dual CPU servers with lots of RAM.


RAQs at 500Mhz and 512Mb+ of RAM and <100 sites are coping fine.

> I figure these can handle a lot
>of carts on one server, a lot better than a RaQ.


What is a lot?

> Needless to say, for
>this purpose, they ROCK! I threw Ensim on them and it seems to be
>working out well.


I would hope so - have you any idea how many more operations a dual PIII even can punch through compared to a RAQ with a K6 at 450mhz out of the box?  It's MANY times more.

>
>Anyhow, just interested in feedback/comments/experiences.
>
>Rick
>
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