Anyone using Opencart with large amounts of items?

[Ironic Namesake]

Hi all,
Just wanted to see if anyone here has any experience with using Opencart and a large amount of items?

I opened a store , hosted on a VDS (Tsohost / Large VDS to be specific) and currently there's approximately 115,000 items or so and the it's pretty much unusable (ie. takes minutes to load)

I don't have much idea when it comes to web design/hosting etc. so after some advice what I could do to speed things up a bit

 

[gord]

At a guess I assume it's the way OpenCart is written, specifically the database queries sifting through that much info. You could beef up your hosting, but it's unlikely to have a major impact. What you really need are code changes, whether that's add-ons which improve the caching/queries of OpenCart or it might be you need a new cart built to handle high product volumes.

Have you seen this thread? http://forum.opencart.com/viewtopic.php?t=61730

 

[sid-180]

We do at work, we have around 2,000 items on it so far now issues.