[TYPO3-shop] tt_products & Typo3 caching

[Richard Hirner]

Hello,

I have a shop with ~50 articles on one page. When I load that page in a 
browser, I can feel that it takes a bit longer than other pages and when 
I use "top" on the server, I see a significant CPU load on the related 
Apache process.

OK, so rendering the shop page takes a little time. But what about 
Caching? I have enabled (better: not disabled) caching for the shop but 
every load of the shop page takes relatively long, compared to the other 
sites.

Does tt_products use the Typo3 cache? Is there anything I can do to 
improve the loading speed? I'm also concerned because of DoS attacks (OK 
this is more a general Typo3 issue than related to tt_products), because 
I have set my Apache to max. 100 clients at one time and for all other 
scripts on the server, this setting works perfekt. But loading the online 
shop 100 times at the same time would take many server resources and 
possibly lead to DoS. Is there any other solution than using 
mod_bandwidth and per-vserver settings?

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Best regards
Richard