A mearge thought for the Frontier Store devs

[scimon]

As the store melted down last night with everyone trying to get their free Cobra skins I saw something that sent shivers down my spine. A Magento error page....

Having spent a year developing an Magento "Enterprise Edition" site before I can only hope you didn't spring for that...

My thought's go out to those poor guys having to keep their store running.

Now of course I need to go back to my day job of keeping a much bigger online store running in the run up to Christmas.

Weeee.

 

[Titus Balls]

I once applied for a web dev job at Frontier.

Knowing its a PHP backend shop, kind of glad I didn't even get an interview.

Luckily I haven't had to work with PHP for many years now.

Yea, feels for the bros and gals who have to manage this horror

 

[scimon]

Yeah two years doing PHP and I jumped at a chance for a Perl job (yeah... I'm old). Since I got here I've done Perl, Java, Node JS and a bit of PHP. So it's interesting.

And WAY more fun that looking after a Magento store. *shudders*

 

[Bald Avenger]

I doubt they are using the Enterprise edition. It's the Community Edition.

Not sure why people dislike Magento, apart from the ebay connection maybe. A bit resource hungry perhaps, but if your wanting a low cost option on shared hosting then look elsewhere.

 

[Drazik]

As the store melted down last night with everyone trying to get their free Cobra skins I saw something that sent shivers down my spine. A Magento error page....

Having spent a year developing an Magento "Enterprise Edition" site before I can only hope you didn't spring for that...

My thought's go out to those poor guys having to keep their store running.

Now of course I need to go back to my day job of keeping a much bigger online store running in the run up to Christmas.

Weeee.

The issues with the store last night were not magento per se, but the backend database running out of connections - which is a common scenario when people don't plan capacity properly and get a huge traffic spike.

From my experience, bad magento - infact, bad ecommerce off the shelf platforms suffer under heavy traffic due to the developer customisations to those platforms, poor scaling of the underlying hardware (cost vs performance argument), bad management of resources.

As it's used by a chunk of ebay and developed by the community(and ebay devs) for their site with seemingly no problems, I think it's a pretty good argument that the vanilla throughput is solid.
There's plenty of performance whitepapers on magento that support this.

One at random:
http://www.sessiondigital.com/assets/Uploads/Mag-Perf-WP-final.pdf

Not a dig tbh, just people bleating that good software is 'bad' when they've had their hands in the guts of it for a long time bolting on/changing things, but it's the 'software' that sucks...

Now back to my day job that sounds a lot like yours on a multi-million GBP per day scale