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    Nop Commerce

    :) Asp.net and nop commerce are hardly obscure. Nopcommerce IS open source, as are several of the major asp.net carts. If you're into PHP you might not have heard of them, but there's a massive number of asp.net developers out there especially for higher end development. We moved our own site...
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    Moving from a dedicated server to a VPS?

    We looked at magneto before going with a dot net solution... All the magento sites were slow but we were told we could pay for a powerful server with 4 Gigs ram, multi CPUs and then get an expert to optimise it. Free software isn't cheap. Went for free asp.net software, bottom of range vps with...
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    Moving from a dedicated server to a VPS?

    We've had a very reasonably priced vps from heart for about 6 months and it's been excellent. It's a windows server, our ecommerce site is asp.net and ran like a rocket out of the box, no tweaks required... I hear magneto is slow so we dodged that.
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    Where do i stand?

    That is one seriously slow website! Told me at bottom of page "this page was created in 8.59 seconds"... If that is how long it takes to create a page then it's going to take a lot longer for the user to download and parse it. I'd get yourself some new software and/or hosting... That is...
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    Magento VAT Setup

    Wouldn't that involve updating 2 stores data, patching them for security updates, etc? Surely it is a better option to have one store that can handle the vat as desired?
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    Just set up E-comm site with Magento, but the Speed is extremely slow?

    Its nuts to write something as complicated as Magento in an interpreted language like PHP. Its so inefficient. So you get free software and then have to get a dedicated server and jump through hoops to optimize it. Free isn't cheaper. PHP is great for building straightforward web systems but...
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    Recommendation for Windows VPS Server provider

    Re the PHP on Windows - I can confirm that it flies! We used to host our PHP apps on Linux, but one of our customers had a windows 2008 box due to running another app that required it, so we put the PHP on there. I couldn't believe the performance they got. We didn't have to do any tweaking at...
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    Curious about recent weird customer behaviour

    In our case we're a small company of only a few employees so I handle sales and invoicing side of things, so we can discount this one. Do others think HMRC would be interested in this? I get the impression they couldn't be bothered about fraud like this. I have a friend who ran a furniture shop...
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    Curious about recent weird customer behaviour

    Its web based software for handling various business processes. Don't want to give too much info here since I've stated I suspect these customers of money laundering and fraud :)
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    Curious about recent weird customer behaviour

    We sell software that is written in house - typical value around GBP3000 for one license. Generally people who buy the software discuss in depth the features of it, haggle over price and then pay perhaps 50% in advance, the balance due after install. In the past couple of years we've seen a...
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    Magento Running Costs

    How many hundred thousand products in your demo store?
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    Magento Running Costs

    This is the point I'm making. PHP just isn't suited to massively complex systems. Its great for a simple site, but not something like a large ecommerce store with a hundreds of thousands of products and hundreds of thousands of visitors. Many years ago I implemented an encryption algorithm...
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    Magento Running Costs

    I wasn't slating magento. I agree that you can code badly on asp.net and make a terrible app that is slow. Often its poor SQL queries that are the real drag on an application. Its just that PHP is a curious choice of technology to attempt to write a complex application in. I understand that...
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    Magento Running Costs

    Magento is built on PHP, which was never designed to run complex applications. Whilst its faster than classic ASP, its much slower than technologies like ASP.net which are optimized for running complex web applications very very fast. These guys have a good comparison here - ASP.net is almost...
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    ipad2 for business

    I'm using my ipad2 right now. It's fine for web browsing and quick emails but I couldn't do anything serious on it. Give me a laptop for that anyday.
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