http://www.itoctopus.com/how-many-users-can-joomla-handle Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:17:19 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 http://www.itoctopus.com/how-many-users-can-joomla-handle/comment-page-1#comment-5221 Why Joomla Is a Good Choice for Government Websites | itoctopus Wed, 12 Sep 2012 04:47:23 +0000 http://www.itoctopus.com/?p=433#comment-5221 [...] websites only receive a few thousand visits a day (at best) – which is well in the range of the number of users that Joomla can handle without scaling [...] [...] websites only receive a few thousand visits a day (at best) – which is well in the range of the number of users that Joomla can handle without scaling [...]

]]> http://www.itoctopus.com/how-many-users-can-joomla-handle/comment-page-1#comment-3488 Joomla in Dubai | itoctopus Tue, 27 Sep 2011 16:21:48 +0000 http://www.itoctopus.com/?p=433#comment-3488 [...] - Installing a Joomla website. The latest version of Joomla was required. - Modifying a Joomla 1.5 template to make it compatible with the 1.7 version of Joomla. - Securing the Joomla website for PCI certification (the website passed PCI certification the day we left Dubai). - Adding a product catalog and a shopping cart to the website, and integrating the checkout process with a payment gateway (non-PayPal). - Connecting the product catalog to the actual physical inventory of the supermarket (The challenge that faced us here is that since the databases are connected, what will happen when a user buys a product online that was physically bought (at the same time of the online transaction) by a shopper while visiting the actual store – the solution to this problem was to connect the database to another, non-displayed inventory, a technique that provided a better accuracy of the availability of the product, but a 100% accuracy was never guaranteed). - Alerting the user when his products are scheduled for delivery after he buys them from the website. - Creating and sending newsletters to website subscribers. - Automatically updating the Facebook fan page with the latest products (this took us a long time – but now we know how to do it) - Allowing users to watch a product. When a user watches a product, he will immediately receive an email when this product is on sale. - Allowing users to review/rate products. - Optimizing and scaling Joomla to handle thousands of daily investors (see our post on the number of users that Joomla can handle). [...] [...] – Installing a Joomla website. The latest version of Joomla was required. – Modifying a Joomla 1.5 template to make it compatible with the 1.7 version of Joomla. – Securing the Joomla website for PCI certification (the website passed PCI certification the day we left Dubai). – Adding a product catalog and a shopping cart to the website, and integrating the checkout process with a payment gateway (non-PayPal). – Connecting the product catalog to the actual physical inventory of the supermarket (The challenge that faced us here is that since the databases are connected, what will happen when a user buys a product online that was physically bought (at the same time of the online transaction) by a shopper while visiting the actual store – the solution to this problem was to connect the database to another, non-displayed inventory, a technique that provided a better accuracy of the availability of the product, but a 100% accuracy was never guaranteed). – Alerting the user when his products are scheduled for delivery after he buys them from the website. – Creating and sending newsletters to website subscribers. – Automatically updating the Facebook fan page with the latest products (this took us a long time – but now we know how to do it) – Allowing users to watch a product. When a user watches a product, he will immediately receive an email when this product is on sale. – Allowing users to review/rate products. – Optimizing and scaling Joomla to handle thousands of daily investors (see our post on the number of users that Joomla can handle). [...]

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