E commerce Design

Question

Guys we are designing an e commerce web site using asp.net. we are using a bsic design and dont know if we can add something or shift onto a better version of asp or silver light etc. wud like ur suggestions and inputs.

we are makin 3 main pages one for the login,another for the products and one for the payment.wheneva there is a purchase we insert a record in our database. we have two tables.one for daily transactions and another for history.The records whose status (shipment done,order delivered) is updated can be seen on the customers request through a view created on the history.Also we are planning to send an e mail to the customer once a transaction is done or the status is updated.(SQL provides tht feature i guess sp_send_mail).Also i wud like to handle peak traffic and control the avg data per user.

any suggestions on these we are planning to use compression on the iis to control data and have heard abt using static pages to reduce data transfer. but am not sure how it wud go wud like to hear any improvements ,modifications and suggestions to the above from ur end. thanks guys.

Answer 1

Hello, That depends on your server version. Anyway, IIS has its own compression features for dynamic and static content. It's native internal module and I guess it works very quickly. If you need more flexible configuration, you can pay attention on Helicon Ape. mod_gzip and mod_cache together can improve your performance. One important advantage is flexibility. You can set different compression level for different MIME types. Simple example:

SetEnvIf mime text/html User-Agent (?!MSIE).* gzip=9

It enables Gzip compression with level 9 for HTML files and excludes Internet Explorer.