Hello Nairdacart - depends on the server you have magento is not for shared hosting thats for sure is more like enterprise style ecommerce and if you are running a business than I will really advise a dedicated server
I always run dedicated servers. I could get over the installation headaches but the code is still awful.
It's probably just me being a picky old programmer but the adoption of proper coding standards in CS-Cart 4.0.1 was one of the major reasons I jumped ship to CS-Cart.
Can anyone suggest me how many websites have used cs-cart?
how many websites are using magento?
So we can make better compare.
thanks !
Taydotech - I wouldn’t use “how many websites have used such and such a cart” as your argument. Magento is owned by Ebay, its huge. Doesn’t make it better.
Also since Magento charge a premium for their paid versions, the add-ons are usually thousands of dollars. Most add-ons for Cs Cart are usually under $100 and work just as well. I don’t think particularly think that Cs Cart or Magento has great coding standards, but Magento is spaghetti soup. It’s just awful. Even an experienced php programmer can be brought to tears with that software.
I run Cs Cart Pro on a dedicated server it and it flies along nicely. It certainly did need some tweaks to get it there, but so does Magento. Lastly, consider the ongoing costs of Magento - you could easily spend $10k a year on devs looking after it for you. With Cs Cart, there are some options at least; Alt Team, Seonid, Valentin, all great developers and very reasonably priced.
Interestingly, Alt Team used to offer development for Magento. They’ve since dropped the platform entirely. I can’t speak for them, but i wonder what the reason was; too complex? Too time consuming to do the most basic of tasks?
One thing you could do (if you haven’t already) is to download free version of Magento and try it out. It has… a learning curve! 
Taydotech,
We are not aware of the number of Magento based sites, but there are more than 30 000 online stores based on CS-Cart (about 20 000 are registered in the United States).
thanks for orangegirl,
I used many platform for building Shop cart:, like Joomla (Vituemart), Drupal (ubercart), Prestashop, Cs-cart, Magento, Os-ecommerce
I think that Cs-cart is the best. Full Features for normal user, customize addons is OK.
Can You share with everyone why your team is not marketing campaign to boost development and increase the number of community uses more cs-cart? Like [url=“http://prestashop.com/”]http://prestashop.com/[/url]
because 30,000 online stores is quite low vs other platform.
Number of downloads and operating stores are two very different things.
I mention about number of store. not downloads
Taydotech,
You are partially right. Recently we mainly focused on developing the product itself, but have already started promotion of CS-Cart either.
We would greatly appreciate if you (and all the CS-Cart community members) kindly share your ideas which concrete marketing actions may be useful and effective.
Thank you.