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So I´ve been theming and testing and moduling Magento for a month, continiously, now. It´s all fine, some things really hard to grasp & time consuming (e.g. attributes with all the products, the template-"engine").
I thought Magento would be the solution (for getting away from year-old shopping-platforms like xt/os-commerce).
It is not, for me and probably many others: It doesn´t run on normal virtual servers (tested a few), e.g. the cart needs at least 38 seconds to load. It runs just as slow on any local configurations (MAMP, XAMP, etc.). I know, one shouldn´t test any web-application local - but if Magento takes up 90% of my MacBook´s resources to load the cart - that´s a bad sign for me..
Magento is not your solution if you have normal webspace, or anything up to shared hosting or a v-server.
Magento is open source but it might be your solution if: You take the money to invest in a fast, dedicated server that is explicetly configured and set up for Magento, invest in an admin and invest in Varien´s Platinum Partners to get the functionality and speed you want.
Simply and offensively put: Varien has made Magento so complicated and “ready-for-improvements” so you can pay their partners.
I still think they have put a lot of thought, work and effort into it. But not stating that this is really not for you normal 10-T-Shirts-a-day-sellers, but rather for the big companies who are willing to take a lot of money into their hands for further development, not explicitly stating this I have to blame Varien for.
Open Source is great -as well is when everybody can make their share with a new application. But I personally feel fooled.
(Having to tell my customer: Yeah! We go with Magento, it´s all great, they say.” A month later: “Wait, oh no, we cannot! You´d have to spend 150 € per months on a server, like 15 times more than you do today to sell the same stuff...!")
Thank you Varien, Community and Magento. I´ll check back, again. For the time until then, I´m over at Prestashop.
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