: PrestaShop preformence with 100.000 + products I am i the process of finding a replacement for an old web-shop (Compumail.dk), we are looking at a lot of possibility's and one of them is PrestaShop.

@Angie530

I am not so familiar with Prestashop per se, but a company that handles 100,000+ products, probably wants to make sure this works.

The best advice to give here, is to benchmark. Regardless of the solution (Prestashop or otherwise), you probably want to set up a cluster of servers -- if not for load balancing, then for high availability. Write a simple scripts to programmatically add 1M products to the test-webshop, and then use a tool like ab to benchmark. Depending on the budget, one might invest in more realistic benchmarking-tools (i.e. different user sessions, complexer page requests, etc.).

Then you can make an estimate as to how much server-resources you will need. Then it's up to you (or the company you're working for), if that is acceptable, or if you want to compare it to other solutions. The costs of several AWS-servers for a few days will probably be worth it.

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@Cugini213

First of all I would say don't believe everything you read on the Internet! Second of all, if this ever was true in older versions of Prestashop I can confirm it definately is not an issue in Prestashop v1.6. The optimisation and caching built-in are excellent, and with a well written theme and templating it is possible to have a very fast/responsive store.

I recently had the requirement of a large product catalogue for one of my customers (approx 800,000 products) and already using Prestashop for many other customers, and after reading dh42: Prestashop Scalability on AWS I was tempted to give it a try.

I can confirm that by utilising either a content delivery network (CDN) or such as an AWS S3 bucket for images, and a reasonable AWS RDS instance for the MySQL database (e.g. db.m3.large or db.r3.large) Prestashop can manage a very large product catalogue without any difficulty and with easy future increased scalability, the only tricky party is getting the AWS instances and configuration setup if you're not familiar with it - this was a steep learning curve for me. I didn't go to the same lengths as were described in the article I referenced but I didn't need to cater for 5000 conconcurrent users either. By the time we worked out the cost of running all the necessary instances on AWS it actually worked out cheaper for us too than the previous VPS hosting arrangement. The site I'm referring to was moved from VPS and published 'live' on AWS in January 2015 and after nearly 5 months I have only been impressed with the final outcome, though it took some serious tweaking in the first month, and we even downgraded our instances from those we originally chose and were still very happy with the performance.

I believe there can still be more work done to improve the scalability of Prestashop, however it is certainly possible at present to get a very fast responding site with a large product catalogue if setup correctly and on hosting infrastructure suitable for the requirements.

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