Magento is a beast, but more than capable of handling heavy load and a large set of products if configured correctly. Currently we host a 6 node enterprise clu

Magento is a beast, but more than capable of handling heavy load and a large set of products if configured correctly. Currently we host a 6 node enterprise cluster; utilizing varnish and memcached. The biggest downside to magento is learning the platform, there are lots of quirks and oddities that tend to pop up. Also beware of magento connect! It's not that most of the modules available are bad (believe me there are a bunch that are), but when you never want to use the auto-install functionality built into the admin. I have seen a few attempts where people (mostly unqualified) will go ahead and install something to get a particular feature. This ends up leading to the entire installation becoming hosed. (http://alanstorm.com/category/magento http://alanstorm.com/category/magento) This guy has a bunch of extremely useful information about magentos' internal functionality and is a great place to start when questions arise. heres a link to a performance white paper they put out a little while back, but is still relevant. From magento https://info.magento.com/PerformanceWhitePaper.html https://info.magento.com/PerformanceWhitePaper.html (they will send an email with link to download) OR download directly here http://www.filedropper.com/magentoperformancewhitepaper-eev1-91 http://www.filedropper.com/magentoperformancewhitepaper-eev1...