Planning a successful Magento Enterprise Upgrade. Magento is a very complex and powerful shopping cart system. Customization comes at a price however, when it comes time to upgrade to the latest version of the platform. We’ve listed a few strategies below that have helped us plan, test and successfully upgrade clients with the least amount […]
During a very busy holiday weekend, one of our clients running their ecommerce site on Amazon EC2 ran into a rather large snag. Their order email confirmations to customers were being delayed and sometimes not being sent out for hours later.
Recently we had noticed that several of our success messages, such as “Product Name was successfully added to your cart”, where actually being added twice. Several other messages were also duplicated we had noticed. This was working fine on our development server and another upgrade instance. The only difference between our production and development servers […]
After performing a performance analysis on one of our client’s enterprise magento websites, we noticed that their .HTACCESS file was very large compared to what we typically see. Upon closer examination we noticed that there were more than 400+ redirects and re-writes that had been carried over from their previous ecommerce shopping cart systems. Based […]
A client asked us how we could back-port a small database from MSSQL2012 database back to a MSSQL 2008 database. We know there is direct method of doing this, other than through an obscure process called “Generate Scripts”. Essentially, it exports the database objects as SQL scripts, that are generic enough to be re-run on […]
The Magento ecommerce system is a very complicated architecture, fraught with hardware and software tuning, caching systems, and database tuning. On a dedicated server, this can be a challenge to manage on a day to day basis. Moving it to the cloud presents a whole set of factors that will need to be considered. Magento […]
If you are a start-up company that does not require intensive computing resources, you can easily design a full office computing network, complete with resilient backups and Disaster Recovery, for both low upfront and monthly cost. The traditional model of having a server or two in house to serve files mail, security and backups is […]
UPDATE: 5/9/2013: Major kudos to the Amazon SDK PHP team for contacting us and actually listening to our concerns/issues of their SDK. A standalone download of the library is in the works and a lot of their documentation will be updated with newer examples. Kudos to the entire team and their tireless efforts of helping […]
At Silva Tech Solutions LLC, we process and handle a lot of custom reporting tasks for clients in a variety of industries. Typically, we are asked to process an input file (spreadsheet, text file, even a database) , extract the required data, append or manipulate the extracted data, and delivery a report in a file […]
Recently we ran into a very bizarre issue with a new VM Ubuntu Server 12.04 image and assigning a static address. Using DHCP, the image was completely fine and could complete ping and wget any website on the Internet. When we switched it over to a static ip, we ran into a really puzzling situation. […]
