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

[Kim Schulz <kim@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 26 Apr 2003 18:18:51 -0500
Greg Hewitt-Long <cobaltusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >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.


Vi have a customer with 80.000+ products.they have alot of daily
visitors/shoppers but stil use oscommerce on a RaQ3 without no problem
(same box handles around 100 other customers also). 



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