I have a site that I am looking to develop, it only has about 200 products to go on however the site is selling till rolls and they want to have a printer compatibility finder on the site. I have looked at various extensions which but nothing seems to fit the bill. What I need is some sort of drop down menu which shows all the printer manufacturers, then whey they select the manufacturer a second menu is filled with printer models available for the selected manufacturer, they select their printer model from the list and it then shows the products which fit that printer.
As I can’t find an extension that suits I was wondering about setting up the manufacturers as categories, then have the printer models as subcategories of the relevant manufacturer, then the product is checked to display under the printer type. The problem is I have just received the compatibility list which lists all the printers available from the various manufacturers and there are nearly 1200! I am now concerned as to whether having this many categories, sub categories set up will be feasible. I have already decided I would need to band the manufacturers under top level categories such as A-C, D-E etc.
We have 260,000 products, Can magento handle this much products?
That shouldn’t be an issue as long as you have sufficient hosting. If you don’t mind me asking, what kind of ecom store are you managing with 260,000 products? Stores I’ve worked with who have that much product usually have either proprietary software or a heavily modified version.
We’re currently running 6 different stores on a single Magento CE 1.5.0.1 installation with a total catalog size of ~1.75 million products. We’re using a Nexcess Magento Enterprise Cluster, MCE-SIP-100 2-Node Cluser to be exact (http://www.nexcess.net/magento-enterprise-hosting). Our websites run great, but I don’t think our Magento installation would be possible without the cluster environment that separates web and DB.
The only problem we’ve encountered is with reindexing. It currently takes 10 hours to reindex (from command line) and for several of those hours, chunks of the catalog are inaccesible which means we have to pause all of our marketing efforts and reindex in the middle of the night.
1.75 million products. How is website doing from customers point. Is it fast? Are customers having any issue?
I am not completely sure about the products Magento can handle but it can handle multiple stores and multiple websites. And I think rendering Effects can handle all of the Magento product entry for your online store.
We’re currently running 6 different stores on a single Magento CE 1.5.0.1 installation with a total catalog size of ~1.75 million products. We’re using a Nexcess Magento Enterprise Cluster , MCE-SIP-100 2-Node Cluser to be exact (http://www.nexcess.net/magento-enterprise-hosting). Our websites run great, but I don’t think our Magento installation would be possible without the cluster environment that separates web and DB.
The only problem we’ve encountered is with reindexing. It currently takes 10 hours to reindex (from command line) and for several of those hours, chunks of the catalog are inaccesible which means we have to pause all of our marketing efforts and reindex in the middle of the night.
10 hours seems a little unreasonable. Have you been able to improve performance?
I have a site that I am looking to develop, it only has about 200 products to go on however the site is selling till rolls and they want to have a printer compatibility finder on the site. I have looked at various extensions which but nothing seems to fit the bill. What I need is some sort of drop down menu which shows all the printer manufacturers, then whey they select the manufacturer a second menu is filled with printer models available for the selected manufacturer, they select their printer model from the list and it then shows the products which fit that printer.
As I can’t find an extension that suits I was wondering about setting up the manufacturers as categories, then have the printer models as subcategories of the relevant manufacturer, then the product is checked to display under the printer type. The problem is I have just received the compatibility list which lists all the printers available from the various manufacturers and there are nearly 1200! I am now concerned as to whether having this many categories, sub categories set up will be feasible. I have already decided I would need to band the manufacturers under top level categories such as A-C, D-E etc.
Shouldn’t be too hard to find someone to code something like this. Instead of doing all menus, you may just want to open up a category page from the first menu where a user can drill further down. Springing up sub menus can cause users to be unable to navigate easily through them and then give up. I have had issue with some where you try to mouse over from the first menu to get to the second, and as soon as contact is lost with the first menu (cursor is not touching a menu item) everything disappears and you have to go back and open the first menu again. Very frustrating.
10 hours seems a little unreasonable. Have you been able to improve performance?
I think 10 Hours seems reasonable, as the website has 1.75 million products so obviously re-indexing will take some time than usual. The thing I would like to know how many time in a month he re-index? And for what reason he need to re-index when it takes too much time, which also force him to pause all the marketing tasks?
The reason is that 1) requests do not even access the database for many requests, so everything is sped up 2) usually stores with more products have more traffic and this will save in hardware expenses.
I have a site that I am looking to develop, it only has about 200 products to go on however the site is selling till rolls and they want to have a printer compatibility finder on the site. I have looked at various extensions which but nothing seems to fit the bill. What I need is some sort of drop down menu which shows all the printer manufacturers, then whey they select the manufacturer a second menu is filled with printer models available for the selected manufacturer, they select their printer model from the list and it then shows the products which fit that printer.
As I can’t find an extension that suits I was wondering about setting up the manufacturers as categories, then have the printer models as subcategories of the relevant manufacturer, then the product is checked to display under the printer type. The problem is I have just received the compatibility list which lists all the printers available from the various manufacturers and there are nearly 1200! I am now concerned as to whether having this many categories, sub categories set up will be feasible. I have already decided I would need to band the manufacturers under top level categories such as A-C, D-E etc.
Shouldn’t be too hard to find someone to code something like this. Instead of doing all menus, you may just want to open up a category page from the first menu where a user can drill further down. Springing up sub menus can cause users to be unable to navigate easily through them and then give up. I have had issue with some where you try to mouse over from the first menu to get to the second, and as soon as contact is lost with the first menu (cursor is not touching a menu item) everything disappears and you have to go back and open the first menu again. Very frustrating.
I know exactly of the menu problem you described. It is maddening, yet so many sites have it. If it takes more than a couple tries, I am outta there.
We are in process of placing some 55000 simple products with few thousand configurable.
hopeful that site speed will be good.
Waiting for it going live.
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