Aug 9

Gerard Farnham

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Magento Slow Admin

Magento Store ManagerIf you have Magento, whilst you may love the system, you will probably find admin is sometimes so slow you may dive out of the window in frustration. Editing products is a good example; open, wait, edit, wait, save, wait, wait, wait….

We’re trialling Magento Store Manager – a windows desktop application to manage key Magento functions remotely to greatly speed up the process – main functions that interested us were add, delete, modify, clone, or copy products, categories, manufacturers, attributes, but it also handles import and export to excel, so we’ll see what that is like too. Watch this space, product review to follow!

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  1. Chris Duncan

    August 11th, 2010 at 7:44 pm

    I wanted to give some free advice on slow admin performance. Firstly, it is really is good to check to see if you meet the minimum server requirements. Web hosting providers don’t meet this often with shared setups (http://www.magentocommerce.com/system-requirements). Most of it involves the RAM requirements. Smaller server setups with less than 512 MB of ram just don’t cut it a lot of time. Alternatively, if you have lots of traffic and meet these requirements, you might need to start caching. You can start with the default caching built into community edition (System->Cache Management), but often using a automated plug-in simplifies the process. I’ve had luck with TinyBrick products (http://store.delorumcommerce.com/ – however, I’m a little bias), but Aitoc also has some caching and speed products (http://www.aitoc.com/).

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