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[B00MER]

I've seen X-Cart pre 4.1.x take down Quad CPU servers with massive amount of data crunching power with a low number of concurrent users. This is the main reason 4.1.x was written the way it was, to consume as little server resources as possible and be more efficient. A Fortune 5 isn't going to plug-n-pray a commercial Cart but rather write their own.

Google does do something very similar, the html catalog is a semi-spider, so in essence X-Cart is doing the same. Collect data, store it on a file system. Granted Google is in a much much LARGER scale, and they surely are not doing it in a interpreted language like PHP or even low level C. I would almost believe they are using Assembly mixed with C or Python to squeeze as much as they can out of low end machines in their data centers that do nothing BUT parse data all day long.

Proof is in the pudding:
http://www.uwtv.org/programs/displayevent.asp?rid=2459

Anyhow not to get off topic, just my 2cents.

[fyjpm]

Here's one way to design a large-scale network - and this comes from my experience being the designer and network admin of a top 50 website property that generated millions of hits day:

We used F5's Big-IP's (basically an advanced load balancer) in front of a bunch of web servers that were all tied into a SAN that was RAID-5 and we had dedicated database servers that were replicated.

when its time to grow there is a way to do it w/ dynamically created URLs , its just you need more machines than serving static html pages. Be aware that these solutions are not cheap by any means....but if you are generated that much traffic its time to find an investor.

Best,

-John

[donavichi]

Originally Posted by fyjpm

Here's one way to design a large-scale network - and this comes from my experience being the designer and network admin of a top 50 website property that generated millions of hits day:

We used F5's Big-IP's (basically an advanced load balancer) in front of a bunch of web servers that were all tied into a SAN that was RAID-5 and we had dedicated database servers that were replicated.

when its time to grow there is a way to do it w/ dynamically created URLs , its just you need more machines than serving static html pages. Be aware that these solutions are not cheap by any means....but if you are generated that much traffic its time to find an investor.

Best,

-John

Thanks for that valuable insight - we're getting off topic now however and this post is for the purpose of helping x-cart users find the right tools to grow traffic and sales with, not for anything else, please keep your posts relevant to the thread from now on for their benefit. Thanks

[paul@dimoda.com.au]

In my opinion you also have to add all of the BCS Meta Tag mods, The Altered Cart On Page Check Out for one of the most seamless checkout processes, Mult Upsell Links If you are serious about upselling ( a must have if you use ez upsell and ez recommend). Also some fantasic free mods Phils Reciprocal Link Manager and Phils Direct product Enquiry form.

[kip roberts]

Anyone have opinions on T-Hub or Stone Edge order managers?