Oscommerce specialists?
 

Anyone here good with it? Hit me up have potential work for you. :thumbsup

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I know OSCommerce pretty well, as I've used it for a client project.

I won't be around for an hour or so, but if you want to hit me up...I might be able to help.

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Well lookin to pay for a few projects. Ive been told to farm out some of the work to get it done faster. Ill add you to Icq if I can. Ive been having trouble adding people lately, and havent had time to find the fix. Add me if you read this Candy. :thumbsup

Fuck OSCommerce, use CRE Loaded. It's pretty much the same thing as OSCommerce but it already has all the other add-ons integrated so you don't have to beat yourself up installing all of them.

What type of store are you building? I might be able to assist in a very limited aspect. I can certainly answer any questions you have.

Ya thats what we are using, and its bloated and slow atm. www.taboosexyclothing.com We are hosted with webair, and I assure you its not the server, and not the mysql being overloaded.

I have used it on several sites that were extremely robust and never had a problem with it. I did go through and uninstalled all of the modules I didn't use but even with them all installed I never had an issue. I even had upload modules installed and still never had a problem.

That's odd. Nothing against Webair, I've used them in the past but are you certain it's not them? Did you peform the initial install or did they install it for you?

Was installed before me, but we have two installs of it, one on a secondary server. http://beta.taboo.com both are slow per page load even with no one on the site. The load times per page before I redid alot of it was 5 seconds per page. I got it down to 2.5 seconds or so by removing alot of java crap from the template they were using, and changing gzip settings, and doing some light indexing and optimizing in the database. Speed it up about twice as fast, but we still need it faster.

Aproximately 5000+ products currently, so not a huge database imo. Also no image resizing going on either. Its all been thumbnailed manually. I had Webair check the cpu, memory, and network loads while on the site, and was hardly using up anything. I have no problem paying someone who can resolve this problem in a very quick manner as we are losing sales due to the speed im sure.

OScommerce is the most used shopping cart on the internet.

And keep in mind there demo gets 10,000's of visits an hour and still runs fast.

It's great if you know how to run MySQL and PHP and have a decent server to put it on.

Its not a problem with the mysql and php, or the server. Its not a problem with oscommerce. From what people are telling me its the bloat of Cre loaded edition of oscommerce. Hopin someone has a fixor. :thumbsup

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. :winkwink:

Add me to ICQ if you can. My is being fruity. ICQ in da siggy. :thumbsup

I wouldn't quite place the blame on OSCommerce for being slow, it's just an inherent problem with PHP. With php, each time a request is made the pages need to be interpreted/parsed and converted to machine code. Now, when you have a project with as much code as OSCommerce, that's a pretty intensive process that has to be done each a page is simply loaded. Add in the fact that MySQL didn't support stored procedures until recently, that's a lot of unnecessary queries that add even more to the request time.

Nah man its not php, or sql. I have seen stores with twice the merchendise having no problems, and I personally run 7 or 8 very busy forums on one of my boxes, with probably a total of 30k members, and 150k posts. I can do a search on one of the larger ones for a common word in less than 2 seconds. I agree that is surely part of it though. But cant be the only reason.

I am hitting you up now. I hope we can discuss this more

Bump for night crew. :thumbsup

oscommerce has so many steps before a person buys. Is there a cart free and simple that gets them in and out with less clicks?

a few samples here:

http://www.pdghosting.com/shopping_cart/carts.htm

Have a couple little Indian guys workin on this atm. See how it goes.