WooCommerce overwhelmed

  • Resolved cndigi

    (@cndigi)


    6 years, 8 months ago

    I have set up our YMCA to run a “Dances with the Stars” style competition with a donation/vote component as a fundraiser. I have set up the dancers each as “products” and each of them has their own ‘product page’.

    This works very well and we have been successful with this type of thing in the past. This year however we are considering leaving the voting open during the event to maximize the amount of ‘votes’ we get by the end of the night.

    Can anyone see an issue with 5-700 people buying products all at once on the system at one time?

    Would this potentially overwhelm the system?

    Would the reporting of these ‘votes’ be instantaneous so at the end of the voting period we could run the report to get the votes tallied?

    K Mist
    CN Digital

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  • Peter Lawrenson

    (@lorro)

    6 years, 8 months ago

    I don’t think WooCommerce is where you need to focus.

    Are you running PHP latest, preferably 7.2+?
    Are you on shared hosting with 00’s of others on the same server?
    Have you got caching set up?
    If your host server is up to it, it will be handling users in multiple processes. Its not as though one customer has to finish before the next one is served. Discuss with your hosting techs.
    Have you checked your site with https://gtmetrix.com/ (there are similar services) and worked through the suggestions.

    I would expect the votes to be ready as soon as the prescribed period ends.

    Plugin Support Riaan K.

    (@riaanknoetze)

    6 years, 8 months ago

    @lorro is correct here – WooCommerce itself doesn’t impose any limits on simultaneous checkouts; It’s more a function of the hosting environment you’re using as that will be the defining factor on how many entries your database can handle at any one time 🙂

    Thread Starter cndigi

    (@cndigi)

    6 years, 8 months ago

    Thank you

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