muneeb456 Posted April 4, 2013 Share Posted April 4, 2013 Hello everyone, I've been looking for a good ecommerce solution for a while for our bookstore website and I stumbled upon prestashop.com. It seems to be pretty powerful and capable and perhaps a good fit for our needs. However, I read in a couple of places that Prestashop is more suited towards small/middle-sized businesses and can get bogged down in large sites. I was wondering, based on your experiences what is the "breaking point" for Prestashop? Our shop currently has about 2500 products, and has the potential to slowly expand to more in the future. (maybe get to 4000 in the next five years, or something, just to give an idea)... Most items are simple (just books with descriptions, images, links to similar items)... Very few items with attributes and combinations, etc... But how much will Prestashop handle smoothly before it starts to get slow for visitors? Any suggestions on what I could do to improve performance? Or, should I look to other solutions? Thanks for your help and suggestions! P.S. Also, we have been using shared hosting until now, and plan to keep doing that for the near future. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dh42 Posted April 4, 2013 Share Posted April 4, 2013 It is actually suitable for shops running several hundred thousand products, so you will be just fine. For performance, go with good hosting, don't pick the cheapest hosting that you can find. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benjamin utterback Posted April 4, 2013 Share Posted April 4, 2013 Yes, many of stores are running PrestaShop that have >2000 products. There is no limit to the amount of products you can add. On 4/4/2013 at 7:44 PM, Dh42 said: For performance, go with good hosting, don't pick the cheapest hosting that you can find. I second that statement. If you are going to have that many products, and speed is your thing, you will need to find a good hosting plan, not a cheap one. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NemoPS Posted April 5, 2013 Share Posted April 5, 2013 I second what Dh and benjamin already said. Be sure to visit some sites of those hostings before subscribing with them, preferably prestashop sites so that you can estimate the speed (some hostings provide exaples of this). Ineed, word of mouth is the best in these cases. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muneeb456 Posted April 5, 2013 Author Share Posted April 5, 2013 Thanks for your responses guys. I'm currently using icdsoft.com with my existing solution and they are pretty decent in terms of timing. If you have any examples of live sites with several thousand products, please share... And any handy tips on improving performance times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benjamin utterback Posted April 5, 2013 Share Posted April 5, 2013 Hi muneeb456, where are you located? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muneeb456 Posted April 5, 2013 Author Share Posted April 5, 2013 Benjamin, In the United States. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benjamin utterback Posted April 5, 2013 Share Posted April 5, 2013 If you want to look for a VPS server, I recommend you check out A2 hosting. They are one of our hosting partners, you can see their page here http://www.prestasho...ting/a2-hosting Their servers are in Michigan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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