Originally Posted by TheSpreader

Think of it this way and pardon the anology if it's a bad one. If you have a pickup truck and you know that you only need it to transport lumber from yard A to yard B. Now lets say that you put a lift kit with super swampers on that pickup truck...your gas mileage just got cut in half. If you were a smart business man then you'd understand that smaller tires = less gas consumption and you would remove them.

What I'm saying is that CRE Loaded is jacked to the gills with all sorts of different modules that you'll probably never use. If you offer UPS and FedEx then delete the other shipping modules. If you only accept Visa and MC then delete the other modules. Think of it as an online virtual chopshop and you are the fabricator. Trim that bitch down so it only does what you want it to do because if you keep all that server-side bullshit loaded it will obvously bog down your servers. Why in God's name would you want it to connect to DHL to figure shipping costs if you don't even use DHL?

You can manipulate anything to suit your needs and make your site load faster. Strip that bitch down so only the modules you need are being called during the visitor's sessions and also make sure that you use CSS rather than embedded images and I don't see any reason why your store with 5000+ products shouldn't load on demand.

Hit me up if you have any questions...I will work pro-boner.