Mythbusting
Magento EOL: Am I able to retain PCI Compliance on Magento 1?
With Magento’s end of life (EOL) fast approaching we’ve had some clients raise the question – ‘Are we still PCI compliant after June?’. PCI compliance can be very ambiguous with the PCI Council rarely commenting on specifics. This has led some actors to jump in and claim that they’ll look after clients wanting to stay … Continue reading
MySQL and Magento Peformance Tuning
Define performance Do you mean the page load time for a single user, or the overall capacity/total concurrency? The two are very distinctly different - and not strictly related. It is entirely possible to have a fast store with limited capacity; or a slow store with lots of capacity. So when addressing either type of … Continue reading
Magento with Varnish
Is Varnish right for you? Varnish isn't the be-all and end-all of Magento performance. Its great to offset load from bots & window-shoppers - but it shouldn't be your first port of call to actually making your store faster. In fact, implementing Varnish should be the last performance modification to your store. Only drop it … Continue reading
Magento MySQL Replication
We've got a fairly vast experience of MySQL clusters - and Percona have worked with us on a number of occasions when pushing the boundaries of complex configurations. Can Magento natively handle read-only slaves Magento is natively capable of splitting off reads/writes to different database servers (with the exception of a few broken releases, eg. … Continue reading
Why Siege isn't an accurate test tool for Magento performance
We're getting pretty concerned at Sonassi HQ with the growing confusion surrounding transactions per second (TPS), requests per second (RPS) and concurrency by the community as a whole. Shamefully, I fear that we are guilty for bucking this trend. We created a monster, now its time to put it down 3 years ago, when we … Continue reading
Why shouldn't I use Nginx for Magento
We are going to give you a loose analogy – a (Magento) fast-food restaurant. The cast The customer (at the drive-through), is the customer on your web store. The till operator (who sits on a chair and hands you the bag of food through the window – Web Server) The chef (who cooks the meals … Continue reading