[mv] some efficiency boost questions that might help all

["Michael Schwartz" <michael@panamacom.com>]

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Hello!!!

After having two catalogs online, one of them a portal (no selling), and the
other one a virtual store, i have a few statistics to share hoping that some
of you had the same experience and might be able to give me some tips.

The virtual store gets aprox. 40 unique visitors a day.  The portal is
starting up, so it gets 250 (increasing) unique visitors a day.
I have a Pentium iii, with a good connection (oc-12), and it has 128M
Ram.....(which i think should be more), running on Red Hat Linux 6.0, Apache
Web Server....i provide the hosting.
I am using the built in database feature in minivend, not mySQL.
The virtual store has 1000 items, the portal has around 1000 items also, but
separated in different tables to create dynamic pages.....
The CATEGORY in the products tables in both are INDEX, so i use
Dict_look....which supposedly is faster, but TEXT searches are also used.
The mayority of the site (both) is dynamic.  A few pages are static... (help
files, and such).
The server load average right now is around 0.26 ( above 2.00 is not good. )
Sometimes, when the page is loading, it takes a few seconds to load the
bottom part (just think of the simple catalog demo)....logobar and menubar
loads rather quickly, the rest takes a few seconds...sometimes more.  Im not
sure if its the bandwidth of my local ISP or the program.....feedback??

Having all this in mind, i want to run a few more catalogs, for a few other
virtual stores, in the same server.The next one coming up has 36,000 items
and im sure it will have a traffic of around 600-800 unique visitors a day.

Now, a few more questions....should i be able to run these 3 catalogs
without problems? do you think i will or i need more ram right now?  Is it
better to use MySQL server instead of minivend's own?  When using dynamic
pages, is it better to use variables set up in catalog.cfg, like
__MENUBAR__, or is it better or the same to use [include]? (i know static is
the best)
What other tips you can give me for improving processing efficiency??

Thanks, i think this will help a lot of people.....including me  :-)

Regards


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