Coursey Technologies, LLC

I am currently working with a PHP-based shopping cart on a client’s website.  The cart, as a whole, is fantastic.  It’s fully featured with load of options and configuration modules.  It supports nearly every conceivable payment option and has built-in controls for defining a site’s appearance.

The problem with it is, it’s slow.  Depending on the web server’s load, I have measured it taking upwards of 1.6 minutes to render a single page inside the cart.  On off-peak hours, the pages render on average of 4 seconds each.

Upon investigation, I believe I’ve found the culprit.

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Don’t expect this site to say anything directly about the clients I’m working with. My personal views are just that – personal. What you can expect are my views on technologies, techniques, futures, and general observations on the computing world around me.

Currently, I’m working inside a site where a previous developer made some fairly poor choices.  I’ve been adjusting code to make the frakkin thing work right.  It’s not the host.  It’s the shopping cart.

I wrote a quick test script in PHP to perform 10 tests of 4,000 database operations.  Across the tests, I get a result of about 1.6 seconds for the 4,000 operations.  I’d consider the host pretty good for that.  In fact, my own host company averages 5.4 seconds for the same test.

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Ahh…  the Internet.  Or, the Interwebs, as a relative mistakenly said.  It’s a great place to get lost.  I remember back when it was just getting started.  Wow.  I feel old now.

Ok.  This is a general blog for me, my company, and stuff I see going on around me in the computing environments.

This article should be entitled “who are you?”  Well, I’m the guy that runs this site.  The guy that peddles his time.  The guy that loves to write code.  I’m the geek you see peeking over the website pages, wondering why things aren’t working the way they’re supposed to.

Yes, this is one of those typical, “hey, let’s get started” posts.  It’s pretty generic and I’ll try to keep things light-hearted.  If you check back, I’d really appreciate the visitors.  If you want to hire me to write code, I’d really REALLY appreciate it.

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