[yura]

Hello

We are glad to release new 'Debian 5.0 (Lenny) Magento' template.

Magento is a feature-rich eCommerce platform built on open-source technology that provides online merchants with unprecedented flexibility and control over the look, content and functionality of their eCommerce store.

The template is available for all clouds. Please find it on 'Beta Templates' (OS section). 05 April 2010 it will be released under corresponded OS.

The template Wiki page:
http://www.vps.net/w...nto-image-notes

We will be very appreciate for any feedback and report.


Regards
Yura

[Steve]

Thank you, Yura! I've been waiting for this for a long time.

The wiki page is a bit borked, though, and impossible to read (FF3.6.2)

Also: what is the recommended minimum number of nodes for this image?

[HogoFogo]

Great news! I've been waiting for this one too. So now is the time for install and testing. Thank you!

[Shammyh]

Thank you as well. Look forward to testing this later in the week.

[WinFizz]

Thanks, awaiting till 05 april to tryout it under centos.

[WinFizz]

Ok, just do a try but need the shop to be installed under the root directory and not under IP/magento, please do allow this on final image, thanks.

[Shammyh]

Yea, and some of the info in the Wiki article pertaining to this image is totally wrong.

[nullmind]

Shammyh said:

Yea, and some of the info in the Wiki article pertaining to this image is totally wrong.

can you elaborate, let us know please

[hyteckit]

Install APC

aptitude install php-apc

Install memcache

apt-get install php5-memcache

memcache has support for multiple nodes.



Threads on optimizing magento:

http://www.magentoco...thread/9037/P0/

http://www.magentoco...hread/12998/P0/

http://www.magentoco...-performance-1/

http://www.slideshar...ith-zend-server

[Steve]

Steve said:

Also: what is the recommended minimum number of nodes for this image?

I'd appreciate an answer to this, if possible?

[hyteckit]

Minimum node is 1.

[Steve]

hyteckit said:

Minimum node is 1.

Yes, I know that :) but I'd be keen to hear what the *recommended* minimum number of nodes is to run Magento using this image. I've read that a 1GB minimum of RAM is recommended for Magento, and was wondering if any tweaks/optimisations have been made which might mean that this image will run well with less RAM.

[hyteckit]

Seems to be running fine with 1 node.

Guess it'll depend on how many visitors and orders you expect to get in a day.

magento 1.4 is much faster than previously, since it has separate tables for flatten product data and flatten category data.

Since VPS.net makes it so easy to add extra nodes, I'll just add more when I feel I need it.

[Steve]

So you're speaking from experience??? You have the image working on one node? That's brilliant! Would it be possible for you to share the url with me? (via PM) so that I can take a look for myself? No hard feelings if you'd rather not.

[hyteckit]

Yes, I have it running on 1 node.

I tested on 2 nodes and don't see an increase in performance strangely.

As for the url, I'm still constantly making changes, so not a good idea to share the IP address or url. Maybe I'll have it live in the next few days.

[hyteckit]

Hmm... seems to have a conflict with APC. Uninstalling APC.

Went ahead and install eAccelerator instead. Got around a 50% increase in performance from it.

Install instructions for installing eAccelerator:

http://www.howtoforg...pd-debian-lenny


Wondering if I should try lighttpd instead of Apache.

[anthonysomerset]

the issue is not APC per se, magento has been built to work direct with APC - i have heard of issues with using magento on a system with APC and zend optimiser installed (eg cpanel) also there are configuration tweaks that need to be applied to get it to work

i'm under the impression that the template is basically a lamp stack with the requirements of a magento install met with magento installed so therefore no tweaking of this kind

[hyteckit]

anthonysomerset said:

the issue is not APC per se, magento has been built to work direct with APC - i have heard of issues with using magento on a system with APC and zend optimiser installed (eg cpanel) also there are configuration tweaks that need to be applied to get it to work

i'm under the impression that the template is basically a lamp stack with the requirements of a magento install met with magento installed so therefore no tweaking of this kind

Yeah, magento is built to work with APC.

Added to local.xml file:

<cache> 

<backend>apc</backend> 

<prefix>alphanumeric</prefix> 

</cache>

But I'm definitely having issues with it.

eAccelerator is given me good performance gains.


Maybe instead of Apache, run it under lighttpd, Zend Server CE, and Zend optimizer? Since magento is built using the Zend Framework.

[Steve]

I'm trying it out now:
1 node with APC, tested with loadimpact and it crashes with 30 connections (load of 40+ and heavy swapping)
2 nodes with APC, loadimpact crashes it with 40 connections. (load of 30+ with heavy swapping)

I would have liked to see this image using NGINX (I'm a great fan of nginx on Ubuntu.)

[hyteckit]

Well, I tested with the Debian Optimized with NGINX image yesterday. :lol:

Using loadimpact as well. No APC.

50 concurrent connections with no problems. All under 5s response time!

This is with 1 freakin node.


With this magento image and Apache, it craps out at 40 concurrent connections.