Lakshmanan PHP Posted May 21, 2013 Share Posted May 21, 2013 Hi All, I am new to prestashop, How many prestashop stores I can run in a server which is windows IIS6? Please mention the minimum required disc space for a prestashop store. Thanks in advance. Lakshmanan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlsen Posted May 21, 2013 Share Posted May 21, 2013 (edited) Hi, There is so many variables (server hardware, number of visitors during peaktimes, your internet connection) that affect the number of stores you can host on a server. If your stores doesn't get any visitors, then you can host as many as your harddrive space allows you to. But as you add products, database and fileserver size will increase. Conclusion: It will be impossible to give you an answer as your variables will most certainly change over time, skewing any predictions. Edited May 21, 2013 by Carlsen (see edit history) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vekia Posted May 21, 2013 Share Posted May 21, 2013 it all depends on many factors. For the first you have to say how many products you want to sell (in each shop). Will you use attributes? Many combinations? What about traffic? Many vistors? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lakshmanan PHP Posted May 23, 2013 Author Share Posted May 23, 2013 Hi Carlson & Vekia, Thanks for your response. There will be three or four stores with 1000 products in each store. The main area will be grocery and household products. Hence the traffic will be more, the expected visitors and orders will be around 1000. In short : Grocery stores (3 or 4) 1000 products in each store 1000 visitors per store / per month (may increase) Shall i use multi store or i need to create individual stores? Is there any minimum specifications required for Processor,RAM and Hard Disk on hosting server? I guess i need to have linux hosting which will be important for SEO friendly URLs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vekia Posted May 23, 2013 Share Posted May 23, 2013 Is there any minimum specifications required for Processor,RAM and Hard Disk on hosting server? hi here is the official specification of technical requrements for prestashop in version 1.5: http://doc.prestashop.com/display/PS15/What+you+need+to+get+started#Whatyouneedtogetstarted-Technicalrequirements Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lakshmanan PHP Posted May 23, 2013 Author Share Posted May 23, 2013 Thanks for the information. Please clarify the other questions in the previous post Hope it will be useful for other new developers/users/merchants of prestashop Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vekia Posted May 23, 2013 Share Posted May 23, 2013 Shall i use multi store or i need to create individual stores? it all depends on your needs. You can create separate shops, and you can also create two stores with multistore feature. In my opinion it's better to create separate shops. Why? Maybe in the future you will want to move one shop to other host, if you will use multistore - you will have to move all files and all entries in the database (for both stores) I guess i need to have linux hosting which will be important for SEO friendly URLs. Definitely, in my opinion hosting based on unix system is the best - standard LAMP (linux+apache+mysql+php) and your store will work like a charm :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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