Archive: speed

One of the things that can catch you out if you have a paranoid server admin is that various magento extensions will contact external servers (such as SagePay or Mailchimp). If the server admin has blocked outbound web traffic (to avoid DDoS attacks and other malicious traffic), these extensions will slow you down at every [...]

If you are looking to gain the most out of your Magento hosting and to optimise your Magento hosting stack, here are a few top tips that you can try. 1. Ensure Caching is Enabled It may sound obvious, but if you do not have caching enabled then the performance of your Magento store is [...]

Edmonds Commerce have been with Magento since the beginning. If you would like us to optimise your VPS or dedicated server for Magento then please get in touch today. Back then the speed of Magento was one of its main drawbacks. Since that time, the code has improved a lot and things have generally got [...]

If you dig a little deeper into Magento you will notice that there is a fully featured caching system lurking in there. However, as standard, it is quite under utilized. I’m sure that the primary reason for this is that caching dynamic systems can cause admin user confusion and generally make things trickier. However all [...]

One of the advantages of using InnoDB as your storage engine in MySQL is that you can create a database structure that will automatically keep itself clean and tidy, by having deletes cascade through your tables as soon as you delete the main entity. However, if you need to empty a large table, you will [...]

osCommerce is a great ecommerce package which is hugely popular due to its full feature set, massive options for customisation and a huge support base. However if you want to run a large catalogue, or have plenty of visitors then speed can become an issue. There are a number of things you should look at [...]