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Hi,

Does anyone have any experience with Magento? I am looking for a company who will install it + lots of extensions for me and then give it a good design.

Any recommended companies to go for?

I've previously been a customer of Interspire but from what i can see the community make a lot more useful addons for Magento. Are there any downsides?

I have noticed some very slow Magento loading sites and i know this has plagued it from day 1, is there a solution to this now?

Thanks!

 

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The solution is to throw hardware at the problem.

Magento works best on dedicated hosting, coupled with PHP as DSO and opcode caching. Plenty of disk i/o is important for the number of SQL queries and file includes it does on every page load.

That's not to say good quality shared hosting can't run Magento acceptably, it absolutely can - but for best results, if you have the budget look for a provider that knows how to optimise a hosting environment for Magento.

Thanks for that. Budget is not so much a problem, do you have any provides you could recommend?