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If you're familiar with advanced PHP, Magento is a great choice however be prepared for a lot of head-banging. I'm pretty comfortable with Magento and it's one
by DigitalSea 14y ago
If you're familiar with advanced PHP, Magento is a great choice however be prepared for a lot of head-banging. I'm pretty comfortable with Magento and it's one of the more advanced self-managed eCommerce platforms out there that handles everything from stock control to integration with every payment gateway imaginable. If automatic is more your thing Shopify is a great choice.
- mailslot 14y agoMagento is great... except if you plan to sell more than 50 items per minute while sustaining a few dozen page views per second. It's near impossible to scale beyond its upper cap. 10,000's of files / classes, 100's of tables and 300+ SQL queries for coupon processing.
- DigitalSea 14y agoI think that rings true for most self-hosted eCommerce applications though (or any self-hosted application written in PHP), not just Magento. In the right hands Magento can be tuned to handle hundreds and thousands of orders a second if you want it too. If Wordpress can scale, Magento can scale too. We used it to build a large online shoe store here at my employer and it seems to handle the traffic quite well, AWS is a godsend.