Magento is a popular and feature rich eCommerce platform that gives merchants full control over the look, content, and functionality of their online presence in an intuitive and easy to use format. While there are many benefits to using Magento, the primary handicap is that an out-of-the-box Magento installation can be very resource-intensive.
The main goal of this white paper is to ensure that you have the software infrastructure and configuration needed to provide the optimal Magento online experience for your customers. To this end, we will show the benchmark results of a basic configuration and then demonstrate how various progressive improvements can dramatically increase performance.
While there are a multitude of ways to tweak and speed up Magento stores, we have limited the scope of this paper to cover four key areas: Magento’s internal cache and session storage, the backend database, HTTP requests and PHP processing, and fullpage caching. Our final test utilizes the Nginx web server, Percona database server, APC opcode caching, PHP’s FastCGI Process Manager (PHPfpm), and the Varnish web accelerator in a loadbalanced configuration to achieve approximately 634.75 sustained transactions per second.
Download the whitepaper here!
April 16th, 2013
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