Ask HN: Fast Ecommerce Platform?

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Hello! I run an ecommerce store that has approximately 10 products. I am looking for a platform which is _fast_ - I should think that most pages should be able to load in 200ms. Are there good options to achieve this? Open source or proprietary? Searching for ecomm platforms is tough, as google search results are dominated by SEO, but perhaps you have experiences?

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Properly configured, it is less about the platform and more so about the server and your connection to it. Servers with SSD hard drives have a faster seek time. Your cable internet will be faster than a data connection in the middle of nowhere.

PHP platforms are the most abundant in the ecosystem, such as Magento, WooCommerce, Opencart, etc. Meaning it will be easier to setup a sever that would run it. These tend to lean on caching their data/pages to make their page loads faster.

You could go the route of a precompiled language like python and use Django which has several e-commerce platform options. It may take more effort to find and setup a server for it though.

Speed also will depend on how visually heavy the pages will be. If you don't use images/css/js it will be faster.

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