Guest Posted June 7, 2004 Share Posted June 7, 2004 I'm having someone tell me that if you want to make it big to not use oscommerce cause its code is real fatty and that it wont index well with search engines... is this true? He says there aren't any big sites that use oscommerce...i think i believe others wise.. are there any success stores ...that can give me factual data? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vasttech Posted June 7, 2004 Share Posted June 7, 2004 http://www.oscommerce.com/shops/live osCommerce Knowledge Base osCommerce Documentation Contributions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 7, 2004 Share Posted June 7, 2004 i know that exists..but i want to see something that is big... i mean like top rankings in google, making hundreds of thousands a year if not more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Evans Posted June 7, 2004 Share Posted June 7, 2004 I know of a few stores that use osCommerce that have hundreds of thousands of products and make quite a nice turn-over. osCommerce is only limited by the type of server you use. Mark Evans osCommerce Monkey & Lead Guitarist for "Sparky + the Monkeys" (Album on sale in all good record shops) --------------------------------------- Software is like sex: It's better when it's free. (Linus Torvalds) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 7, 2004 Share Posted June 7, 2004 can you give me the site urls. Does it run good on windows server 2003 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Evans Posted June 7, 2004 Share Posted June 7, 2004 Does it run good on windows server 2003 Running good and Windows are a contradiction in terms arent they :P Mark Evans osCommerce Monkey & Lead Guitarist for "Sparky + the Monkeys" (Album on sale in all good record shops) --------------------------------------- Software is like sex: It's better when it's free. (Linus Torvalds) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 7, 2004 Share Posted June 7, 2004 There must be a reason people are willing to pay more for a Windows host though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ozcsys Posted June 7, 2004 Share Posted June 7, 2004 There must be a reason people are willing to pay more for a Windows host though. Some sites require windows to run because of how they are developed. osC does not and hosting it on a windows server does not make much sense. The Knowledge Base is a wonderful thing. Do you have a problem? Have you checked out Common Problems? There are many very useful osC Contributions Are you having trouble with a installed contribution? Have you checked out the support thread found Here BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP!!! You did backup, right?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vasttech Posted June 7, 2004 Share Posted June 7, 2004 People pay more to host on Windows, because hosting companies charge more and the applications they are trying to run either require windows or they just like windows. Hosting companies charge more for windows hosting because it is requires more to administer and because microsoft charges more for the software. osCommerce Knowledge Base osCommerce Documentation Contributions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 7, 2004 Share Posted June 7, 2004 isnt windows hosting just easier to do too? anyway.. back to my original topic.. can i get any success stories here to help prove to my client that this is good. he has several web developers saying to stay away...and unless i can get solid proof..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
agiftcodotcom Posted June 7, 2004 Share Posted June 7, 2004 I would venture to say that many of your top name site (i.e. bestbuy.com, circuitcity.com, target.com...) don't use OSC for two reasons; 1) They have a budjet to spend several $100k if not $M, on a site. 2) OSC wasn't around when they created their sites. OSC is limitless and it can be indexed by SE's, so that is not an issue. I found OSC through one of my work's major $multi-million manufacturers Link Here. They haven't even done much to their design, but it works for them. Contributions I used : Updated 06-13-04 23:42 ---------------- Vote on My Graphis Poll Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 7, 2004 Share Posted June 7, 2004 so you're saying this is a multimillions dollar site? intereting...good to know. these programmers that say this stuff are probably also trying to save themselves so people wont opt for free. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
agiftcodotcom Posted June 7, 2004 Share Posted June 7, 2004 these programmers that say this stuff are probably also trying to save themselves so people wont opt for free. **DING DING DING** WE HAVE A WINNER!!! :D That's exactly it... my thoughts anyway. I just saved a friend $1800.00 from using a programmer... and he didn't give me a cent <_< :D Contributions I used : Updated 06-13-04 23:42 ---------------- Vote on My Graphis Poll Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GraphicsGuy Posted June 7, 2004 Share Posted June 7, 2004 Some people just tend to think that open source isn't as good as "professional" software. In my experience, the opposite is often the case. For one thing, the old cliche "two heads are better than one" comes to mind. How about 10,000 heads? Open source tends to get more development input, more beta testing and a lot more people working on improving it. The key is keeping those who are working on it organized and communicating. Something the osCommerce community does rather well. I had a "professional" shopping cart software and I can say that osCommerce is ten times more stable and a hundred times more feature rich. And infinitely better supported. Just my opinion. Rule #1: Without exception, backup your database and files before making any changes to your files or database. Rule #2: Make sure there are no exceptions to Rule #1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stanj Posted May 5, 2007 Share Posted May 5, 2007 Some people just tend to think that open source isn't as good as "professional" software. In my experience, the opposite is often the case. For one thing, the old cliche "two heads are better than one" comes to mind. How about 10,000 heads? Open source tends to get more development input, more beta testing and a lot more people working on improving it. The key is keeping those who are working on it organized and communicating. Something the osCommerce community does rather well. I had a "professional" shopping cart software and I can say that osCommerce is ten times more stable and a hundred times more feature rich. And infinitely better supported. Just my opinion. I know this is a very old topic and thread but to give it context, I saw this thread when it was fresh and was wondering the same things. I needed a shopping cart to sell day shore excursion for a very short cruise sea of 4 months. We set up oSC and added a few mods, not many, and put it "on-the-air" as a first attempt to book these tours on-line instead of manually by email as was previously done for a few years. The results have been a doubling of sales each season, to $1.8 million handled by oSC credit card sales during the mid spring and no sales from September to March in addition to our contract sales to the cruise lines. During these 3 year years it has been up, we have had no problems and it is rock steady, churning out sales and bookings night and day with an average on-line credit card ticket being $900. By being easy to book we went from the 5th largest such shore excursion provider here in 2004 to 2nd, and number 1 only sells through contracts to ships. They have a 5% margin and we have a 33% margin being direct sales to the public. If you do not mess with the core much, it a no brainer to stay working and handling a lot of orders without a hiccup. I can not remember one outage due to the shopping cart, a few due to our host's general problems however. I have modified it gradually so that the oSC database is accessed with a backend admin program I wrote that handles scheduling, printing PDF tour tickets, creating immigration(passport control) documents, guide assignments, vehicle loading, documents in two languages (we are in St Petersburg Russia for the cruise season) and accounting hooks into two different accounting systems....not just different programs, completely different accounting principles between US and Russian accounting rules.), printing customized PDF 16 page booklets of each tour based on what they order, and lots more. And I am NOT a programmer! I would hate to think of the costs of having a developer do this in a custom store/backend system. When I had a problem with changes, the forum here has been invaluable with very talented people donating their skills and time to the community. When someone asks how to get into on-line sales I have nothing but great things to say about this whole community of very bright people developing, using and learning this program. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jasonabc Posted May 6, 2007 Share Posted May 6, 2007 i know that exists..but i want to see something that is big... Some big, high profile stores that are 100% OSCommerce: Official Formula 1 Store The Google Store The Grammy Awards Store Jason My Contributions: Paypal Payflow PRO | Rollover Category Images | Authorize.net Invoice Number Fix Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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