There are so many shopping carts out there, and it is hard to know which one to use for your website. That is a common question for a web community which currently contemplates in eCommerce field truly impressive shift from stable and proven osCommerce to relatively new Magento eCommerce platform. The interesting tendency we’ve traced In fact [...]

Magento configuration 1. let Magento put session data in database instead of files. Part of configuration to do that in local.xml </resources> <session_save><![CDATA[db]]></session_save> </global> 2. use global attributes for products if you dont need per view attribute values (admin -> attributes) 3. enable APC or Memcache cache backend and of course enable caching in admin -> cache management 4. enable Mage_Compiler [...]