Re: site is live

[allan deleon <allan@instantsoft.com>]

Your site is a little slow for a setup with just 1000 products (even over a T-1!).

We have 500,000 records in our product table on our site and I gotta tell yah --
our
site must be >10 times faster than your site.

    It looks like your CPU is working overtime for just one request (even for the
home
page! -- you can tell by the "waiting for reply" message on the status bar on your
browser
which usually means the server is processing its response to a request) so I would
think
multiple simultaneous requests are going to be a serious problem for you.

There are lots of tricks you can use to speed up your site a little. For example,
browsing
your catalog... Usually, the catalog doesn't change much... you might add a new
item once in
a while and maybe change some prices here and there, but in general it doesn't
change
too often. So what we did was write a little perl script that went through our
entire
product table, split it up into categories (i.e. CD, DVD, LD, Casette, etc.,),
split it into
sub-categories (i.e. Rock, Country, Horror, etc.,) then generated a whole bunch of

static html files which includes a whole bunch of index files, all complete with
the required
minivend tags for ordering and navigation (this thing generates over 6,500 static
html files!)
and voila!... high speed navigation of our catalog. If we update our product
table,
all we do is run the script and it rebuilds our static pages. Navigating our
catalog used to be
nearly impossible before this, now it's one of the fastest things on our site.
Anyway,
that's just one trick... there are countless other things you can do for a bit of
speed.

good luck,
allan


Russ wrote:

> ******    message to minivend-users from "Russ" <russ@khouse.org>     ******
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> Apache Bench is included with the Apache Distribution. Velocigen has a java
> based one at www.binaryevolution.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-minivend-users@minivend.com
> [mailto:owner-minivend-users@minivend.com]On Behalf Of Multi Dimensional
> Shopping, Inc.
> Sent: Friday, July 23, 1999 3:57 AM
> To: minivend-users@minivend.com
> Subject: site is live
>
> ******    message to minivend-users from "Multi  Dimensional Shopping, Inc."
> <info@macroscape.com>     ******
>
> Hello Minivenders!
>
> We just recently went live with our site and we are nervous about the
> scalability in performance. WE are using a hosting service, but we are the
> only Minivend user on that box. It is Solaris Enterprise server (I am sure
> loaded with RAM and processors), however we are using a flat file for our
> database (1000 products) and wanted to know how will the performance
> decrease as the number of users increase. I would also love to test that, so
> if anybody knows of any relatively cheap products to simulated http and
> https connections - that would be great. Otherwise feel freet o browse the
> site and give comments. I am not a programmer and I ahcked throught eh whole
> configuration all by my lonesome self, so any hints on anything on the site
> will be highly appreciated. The site is at http://www.mds-mall.com. All the
> index pages use a loop tag and hence I am curious the speed of the searches
> that everybody experiences (especially over the modem)
>
> Thanks, Eugene B
> ------------------------------------------------------
> Eugene Borukhovich
> Chief Information Officer
> Multi Dimensional Shopping, Inc.
> http://www.mds-mall.com
> info@mds-mall.com
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