Spark111

Well, you groomed me into responding. I know it's a rediculous point of view of my hoster. I have been looking into OVH you guys mentioned. They are in my country too and they seem to have reasonable pricing. Talking my client into moving is putting her on extra cost. I might consider doing it for free. Because OVH offers 100% managed VPS with more memory for less money. I am looking into Elasticsearch and trying out the free Brad module. But ES and Java eat up all the memory. So I am very concerned about the lack of swap. Maybe not needed if these applications behave well, but it makes me very uncomfortable. So maybe I'll give them a call.

With 2 mods in disagreement in een off-topic discussion I can keep chiming in displaying my ignorence until an overlord-mod closes off https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_private_server This I sort of understand. I also understand what my hoster told me. I know of a few settings which make my client's machine lightning fast and sometimes as slow as anything slow with the explaination, that another guy is busy with a backup the wrong way. Whatever. It's not my job. I do know, that PS needs to run on at least VPS, as shared is way too slow. And that domain sharding is not the solution for a fast shop. I am done. Thx for the discussion.

Well, um. A virtual private server is as virtual as my Ubuntu VirtualBox machines with or without Vagrant under Windows host as far as I know. So shared. I agree though, that when you have root access, then you can optimize a lot, including the DB and adjusting the buffer (major inprovement), install a tmpfs for the cache (serious improvement) or increase Opcache memory (big improvement). Much better than a media server. But we have no swap.... No swap on a VPS! "It is not fair to increase memory artificially through swap" was the response of the hoster. Also if another VPS owner on our shared machine decides to plan a HD backup every night, our VPS grinds to almost a halt. Just in time for Googlebot to crawl out site I think dedicated is the way to go, but you need to sell a lot to cover the cost. So I find a VPS most costeffective. but not ideal. The amount of sites on a VPS is limited however. So less possible conflicts.

I already apologized. Misread maybe. Must be the age Good luck.

Look, what you are trying to do is being a merchant, a developer an SEO and a system engineer at the same time. 4 highly specialized jobs. So there is 1 rule I live by, when it grows over my head: First get it done, then get smart. What the guys are saying here is: if it's complicated, then forget it for now and just start selling things. After that it grows on you by itself. There are a lot of tutorials out there on Youtube, on Stackoverflow, but in the beginning it might be all oevrwhelming. So my advice for absolute beginners is just get the shop running. Just my 2 cents. If I sound paternal, then I am sorry, but I am almost 64 so I have the right Good luck.

@selectshop.at. I don't think I can agree entirely. CDN is excellent when the CDN's are close to the requests, minimizing latency. And also for reducing overhead serving cookies with every request. But I agree, especially if you use http/2, the media setting in PS is obsolete for most local sites.

Short answer: No. Long answer:no If you set up your subdomain as alias, then you cannot copy any files to this subdomain as there is no folder. Alias means, dat Apache serves the files from your main domain folder, when a request comes (in your browser source code) to serve from the alias. There is 1 pitfall: you need a subdomain setup in another "account" or else the cookies will be served anyway. Please ask your hoster how to do this. In Plesk you make a new subscription and define your subdomain alias there, if you have a VPS or better.

I came across this old one, But here it goes anyway: My solution is to start up the admin in the browser in privacy mode. This resets the cookies. After that you can use the browser normally. Works for me all the time. Hope it does for you too. Even Google AdWords has this problem sometimes. I got this solution from them.

Hi, For a client we have the following setup: Plesk, PHP7, Apache, Nginx as proxy. PS 1.6.1.5 We are using Opcache. Memory allocated: 2G. After restarting PHP we run Xenu to prime the cache. Very quickly after that the Opcache is full and hit-rate starts to decline. A whopping 2G. My question: How much more is needed? Thanks.

Thanks. I did some further investigation. I measured more than 1600 files in more than 16000 folders. Which can be accurate after all. We have just about 1600 products. If you need to define the directory structure for product #138 you need /cache//1/3/8/ It's just crazy to make a cache entry for every product page, but hey, that's the smarty structure. I suppose the product id needs to be cached as well, which makes these pages unique. IOW: It turned out to be a non-issue. Thanks for your reply anyway.

Anyone interested in answering? After all I thanked in advance.

First: You really need VPS, with *at least* 2G memory, 2 CPU. No shared hosting, ever. When you are going to start optimizaing MySQL you see quickly, that you need more memory. Then you might want to start a mysql test with mysqltuner.pl. For a manual: https://www.howtoforge.com/tuning-mysql-performance-with-mysqltuner My guess is, that your InnoDB buffer is too small. For my clients I use 512MB, which reaches it limits in due time, depending on the size of your shop. This will be your major improvement. Maybe you might look at an Opcode cache, but that won't have much effect on your query result speed. Unfortunetaly you need root access to your server and some basic server OS knowledge, Your hoster might help, but there is plenty to read out there. This is a nice one: https://wiki.mikejung.biz/MySQL_Optimization I am sure this helps. Regards.

Hi, In cache/smarty/cache/socialsharing_header I have more than 1600 files and more than 13000 subdirectories. I wonder if this is necessary. Every subdirectory datestamp shows a recent update. That amount of cached files cannot by good for speed? Any clues why this is? And how to improve on this? Thanks.

Left column problem has been solved structurally: https://www.prestashop.com/forums/topic/385845-16011-upcoming-release/?p=1922750 I need to look in Github more often. Saves quite a lot of time.

Found it. With the latest version (1.6.0.11) there seems to be a problem with updating the table ps_meta_lang. Unfortunately you need access to phpmyadmin (database editor) to fix this. Make a DB backup first!!!!!! 1. find the table {prefix}_meta. So most of the time: ps_meta. 2. Find the id_meta that belongs to the page "product". 3. Find the table ps_meta_lang 4. Check if there is a record with the id_meta as the previous page. 5. If not then add a record with this id and the appropriate fields id_shop and id_lang plus the title field 6. You might need to repeat #5 for each shop and each language, but I am not sure. After that the product option in the advanced theme editor is activated. I am not sure, if you need to set 'configurable' for the 'product' in ps_meta to '1'. For me it makes no difference. I hope this helps.