Having trouble with the performance settings in PrestaShop 1.4? Well, if you are pulling your hair out over this, you are not alone. I’ve worked on finding answers to various parts of this issue for several weeks now and have a pretty good understanding of what they need to be depending on your circumstances.
Below, you will find three videos that attempt to provide clarity on the following settings in the Performance sub-tab:
- Smarty
- CCC (Combine, Compress, and Cache)
- Media Servers
- Ciphering
- Caching
While I wish I could say that these videos are all you will need, alas, they are not. Even after weeks of research, I still don’t know how to properly configure the media servers. Or, let’s just say I can’t make them work for whatever reason. This section leaves the most to be desired but does contain other useful information about the media servers that I was able to figure out.
This leaves a great opportunity for other contributors to show how smart they are:) If, after watching the videos, you know more than the videos demonstrate, please post your comments below. If I can validate what you say, I’ll redo the video (or section of it) so we can all benefit.
Before we go on to the video tutorial, I wanted to thank Nethercott Constructions for providing most of the content for this tutorial. Please go check them out at http://www.nethercottconstructions.com/. Also, you can find links to many of the resources I mention in the tutorial at the end of this post. Ok, on to the videos…
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Useful Links:
Wikipedia Article on the Rijndael Cipher
Wikipedia Article on the Blowfish Cipher
Curt Donohue is a PrestaShop enthusiast and the creator of PrestaTraining.com as well as PrestaShop 1.4 Tutorials.
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Nice tutorials. Really helpful.
Thanks Curt
You’re welcome Rohan.
Hey i need to see these videos but i think links are down , please reupload it or if u have any other links please post
Thanks.
Fahad,
I’m not sure what’s going on. I’m having the same issue seeing my videos in Firefox. It appears the problem is a browser compatibility issue. I can see and view all my videos using Internet Explorer. Try using IE and let me know if that solves your issue. I’m going to have to see what’s causing this problem in the mean time.
Thanks for your reply and you are right your videos are not showing in firefox as well as chrome browser,but they are viewing in IE .
I’m pretty sure it must have something to do with an update either from the JW Player I use, or possibly Firefox. But, you say that it is also not showing up in Chrome? That makes me think it is the JW Player plugin for Wordpress. Maybe I can revert versions.
Thanks for the training videos. They rock!
Hi Curt,
Thanks for your guide, but i have a question.
For enable media server you just only create 3 subdomains?
Let me know
Very thanks
Hi Max,
You can set up as many as three domains or subdomains to act as media servers, but you don’t have to set up any if you don’t want to. Keep in mind, as I said in the video, I haven’t figured out how to set up even one yet. There is a great two-part comment by Angora that questions if it makes sense for small to medium sized shops to bother with media servers. You can see the post here: http://www.prestashop.com/forums/viewthread/103628/configuring___using_prestashop/prestashop_v1_dot_4_performance_settings
I believe PrestaShop is working off the premise that a maximum of three media servers is a good practice. According to some of the literature I’ve read, the optimal amount of hosts (media servers) is between 2 and 5. PrestaShop seems to have made the decision to use three, which is right in the middle.
If you want to read a relatively technical but very informative document on the matter, go to: http://code.google.com/speed/page-speed/docs/rtt.html#ParallelizeDownloads. This is just one section of Google’s information that comes from using their Page Speed application.
Thanks for reply
excellent! could you do more video tutorial about prestashop 1.4 please? Thank you so much!
Thanks summer. I’ve been working on many tutorials for my paid-for product – Prestashop V1.4 Tutorials, which should be out in about a month. Keep an eye out for that.
Is there anything specific you need help with right now?