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Should I use Prestashop for large store?


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Hi,

 

I am learning Prestashop to know if it's the best option for my company's business website: A high traffic and large number of online users at a time: Sometimes will reach 4000 users online a a time. As we are a concert's tickets selling website. We sell "paper tickets" for about 100 Events at a time and each will normally have 1000- 2000 tickets to offer. But on a few hot concerts the numbers can be as big as 10.000 or more.

 

What I want from the website is literally the functionality to sell physical “paper” tickets to people, where I list the product myself, my customers come to the website find ticket listed by categories, if they like it, they "book it"(create an order) , then they will be able to pay by "PayPal, Banking account, etc.." or directly pay when they receive the booked ticket.

 

And we require the website to be stable-can run well everyday, we also require the back-end to be great too. I have tested it but I am not sure how well the Prestashop's Back-end be when we handle about 1000-1500 orders a day, and sometimes 10k+ as mentioned?

 

Can anybody tell me if I should use Prestashop as the platform for our website? And if you have experienced in building,managing a website like ours please share your thoughts. Thanks.

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Hi all,

 

I am now using PS for our store, but I am in the need of a NEWS(list of news) page on top of the site. Is there a free solution for this, I have tried using the blockcms but that didn't meet my need. Pls advice!

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It's less of a case of whether PS is up to the task as the hardware you choose to run your server on.

 

What you will need to do however, is have a cron job to clean up the connections tables in the database on a regular basis as this will get large quite quickly with a high number of users. You can archive it if the data is useful or delete it.

 

After all, Facebook runs on mySQL too.

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Hi Lem, yes- I have a plan to study to make improvements to the scalability os PS, maximize the MySQL etc.. but I am in the need of NEWS page more than the other. I didn't know that NEWS Page would be this big issue for me a few weeks ago. Any ideas will be great!

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Why not use something like Wordpress for your news page. You'd need to be a bit clever to get the themes looking the same between the two, but it can be done and gives you the best of both worlds.

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Hi Lem, That's a great idea for me right now. I'm familiar with both Joomla and WP- but lack of managing a site skills. But with your suggestion I think now I can handle the solution by installing a Joomla/wp site at something like "NEWS.Mysite.com". :) , but is it right that there is no way to have NEWS page in PS?

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