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Truth is that to get StoreFront to work properly, we had to re-write much of it. When the store went live one week ago, it appeared that the web site could not hold up to the traffic and continually crashed. It was on it's own Win2003 server and used SQL Server 2000 for the database. We also received hundreds of customer emails stating that they didn't know how to navigate to make a purchase.
The StoreFront web site says that their software is highly flexible and scalable, and tops in the industry. It appears nothing like that to us. Am I missing something?
The StoreFront web site says that their software is highly flexible and scalable, and tops in the industry. It appears nothing like that to us. Am I missing something?
No, you are not missing anything. I tested StoreFront for one of my clients about 6 months ago. Nice stuff but way too involved for what was required. And, since I am used to a classic asp interface as opposed to the .net interface, I was a little disorientated to say the least. I couldn't get the darn thing to validate either! ;)
So, we ended up in a classic asp cart from another provider that we've rebuilt from the ground up. We'll be switching again in the near future as we are lacking in many areas with the temporary cart.
Storefront say they have fixed the fault by implementing the State Server process, but still.......
The laughable thing is that the fault was not brought to light until people on newsgroup started to kick up a fuss and embarassed SF into doing something.
It is a shame because I like its flexibility - it was just brought to market with too many bugs and most people have lost faith in it as an ecommerce platform.
Storefront also did themselves no favours in my opinion by increasing the license fees by 200% after people like me bought the software - again they seem to lack what I would call 'business ethics'
I am currently having a look at BV2004 which is also .net app and is a far better coded piece of software than SF
check it out.
cheers
Why more people don't use a Linux ecommerce solution is beyond me as a single Linux server can take a much heavier load. I have several mega-clients that push 3gbit of traffic average all day long and take a ton of orders. When they send out an email blast the traffic soars for a day and the server noticeably slows but it doesnt go down in flames.
One customer decided he just had to move to an Windows3000 solution and the first thing he did was stress test his new store vs. his old Linux store and the Windows server handled about 40 less concurrent sessions than his Linux box. His maximum traffic level that the Linux box handled with ease reduced his new ASP soluion and Windows server to an expensive paperweight.
Not that Microsoft doesn't deliver a nice product, but when push comes to shove Windows requires a lot more hardware to do the same job. He ended up with THREE servers, two front end and one backend database server just to handle the same load as one Linux box.
Live and learn.
