High Performance Blog

In our office we are currently evaluating the pros and cons of Magento. Besides all the great features it offers it has a huge con – the performance. We read a lot about it but couldn’t find any reliable statements about how fast or slow it really it is. So I put a plain Magento install on my testing machine and gave it a shot..

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Let’s start with the basic setup for my test scenarios. In our office we had an old and dusty, but still working Intel Xeon 3305 left. It has 2Gigs of RAM and a 1TB SATA harddisc. It’s nothing special, but still good enough for some benchmarks.
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