Hi Guido,
What has happened? I went on with pushing development of a similar shop (see cyberport.de <http://cyberport.de>) and finally lost several 10.000nds of â¬, because Pharo/Seaside *is* much too slow for any serious enterprise.
Can you explain a bit more about your setup? You were trying to make a wesite *like* cyberport.de or did you make the *actual* cyberport.de? Where was the leak happening? What was slow? Connection to external DB? HTTP request handling? Have you benchmarked against a simple Zinc? How does it compare to a full stack Seaside? Where does things get slow? Does that happen with Squeak, VW or Gemstone? I use Pharo 1.3+Seaside 3 for http://wapict.be and it handles the load quite well. We do not get millions of hits but it runs well on a small VPS instance. We plan to grow the business and we need to handle much larger loads. Your benchmarks interest me, can you tell me more about your complete setup? How did you lost thousands of euros? Do not tell me that you've spent months in development to realise later that Pharo did not suit your need... Thanks, Francois -- http://tulipemoutarde.be CA: +1 778 558 3225 BE: +32 65 709 131