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Hello Indy0077,



Yes, I understand the usage of Market Samourai: Finding a niche.



This is why I write:


[quote name=‘Lee Li Pop’]

If I’d used Market Samurai to find my niches, I would NEVER invested in the niche that brings me the most.[/QUOTE]



Because, the Market Samourai answers are:



A - This niche is good! In fact I sell very few.



B - This niche is poor… In fact I sell 22 times more than the “good” one.



Therefore, in this case, Market Samurai was completely wrong in its predictions to judge “automatically” from the opportunities of 2 different niches.



Can anybody without a try?





Lee Li Pop

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[quote name=‘miracles’]SUBDOMAIN is the correct way.[/QUOTE]



Hi, can anyone suggest a way to store images in subdomain. For example, if the store directory is www.yoursite.com/store/

is it possible to store images as images.yourstore.com/

If yes, can anyone suggest how to do that. If this is possible, it may increase overall cs-cart speed.

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[QUOTE]For example, if the store directory is www.yoursite.com/store/

is it possible to store images as images.yourstore.com/[/QUOTE]



No without creating a subdomain ‘images.yourstore.com’


[QUOTE]

If yes, can anyone suggest how to do that. If this is possible, it may increase overall cs-cart speed.[/QUOTE]



It won’t increase the speed as the image folder and CS-Cart folder are on the same server (account).

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Hello Ypg,


[quote name=‘ypg’]If this is possible, it may increase overall cs-cart speed.[/QUOTE]



A possible thing to increase CS-Cart speed is optimize your images to get the right balance between filesize and picture quality:



[url]http://www.websiteoptimization.com/speed/tweak/png-optimization/[/url]



[url]http://www.websiteoptimization.com/speed/12/[/url]



Here is for you:



8 Excellent Tools for Optimizing Your Images





Lee Li Pop

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[quote name=‘indy0077’]No without creating a subdomain ‘images.yourstore.com’







It won’t increase the speed as the image folder and CS-Cart folder are on the same server (account).[/QUOTE]



Then can we take it as storing images on different domain or on different server could increase cs-cart spped. Is it possible?



Recently I visited following web page and had the idea of using sub-domains for image storage in cs-cart



The url of this page is

[url]http://www.askapache.com/htaccess/apache-speed-subdomains.html[/url]

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[quote name=‘ypg’]Then can we take it as storing images on different domain or on different server could increase cs-cart spped. Is it possible?



Recently I visited following web page and had the idea of using sub-domains for image storage in cs-cart



The url of this page is

[URL]http://www.askapache.com/htaccess/apache-speed-subdomains.html[/URL][/quote]

…as you can see, some people saying it’s good and others bad.

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[quote name=‘indy0077’]…as you can see, some people saying it’s good and others bad.[/QUOTE]

I have been analysing some websites including amazon.com and some other with heavy page size and huge databases. Majority of them are using different domain/subdomain for image storage.

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[quote name=‘ypg’]I have been analysing some websites including amazon.com and some other with heavy page size and huge databases. Majority of them are using different domain/subdomain for image storage.[/quote]

Yes that right, but I guess they use different DNS as well. I don’t think the subdomains will speed up the site if they use the same IP.

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[quote name=‘indy0077’]Yes that right, but I guess they use different DNS as well. I don’t think the subdomains will speed up the site if they use the same IP.[/QUOTE]

We need to experiment but only if we know how to configure cs-cart image path for external source of images but I do not know how to do that.

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[quote name=‘ypg’]We need to experiment but only if we know how to configure cs-cart image path for external source of images but I do not know how to do that.[/quote]

You can choose for each product the image location between: Local | Server | URL in the product tab.

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[quote name=‘indy0077’]You can choose for each product the image location between: Local | Server | URL in the product tab.[/QUOTE]



I think this option is only for importing the image to cs-cart’s default image location, i.e., yourdomain.com

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[quote name=‘ypg’]I think this option is only for importing the image to cs-cart’s default image location, i.e., www.yourdomain.com/store/image/[/quote]

The image URL can be anywhere, like this example: [url]http://www.cscartdemo.martfox.com/the-zen-of-css-design-visual-enlightenment-for-the-web-1.html[/url]



The image URL is [url]http://www.martfox.com/web-hosting-martfox.jpg[/url]

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[quote name=‘indy0077’]The image URL can be anywhere, like this example: [url]http://www.cscartdemo.martfox.com/the-zen-of-css-design-visual-enlightenment-for-the-web-1.html[/url]



The image URL is [url]http://www.martfox.com/web-hosting-martfox.jpg[/url][/QUOTE]



The link location is still as the default in cs-cart i.e, cs-cart.com/images/



[url]http://www.cscartdemo.martfox.com/images/detailed/web-hosting-martfox.jpg[/url]



This is only the way you upload the image in cs-cart image directory.



What I am looking for an external image directory for cs-cart store for example



[url]http://www.imagescscartdemo.martfox.com/images/detailed/web-hosting-martfox.jpg[/url]

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[quote name=‘ypg’]The link location is still as the default in cs-cart i.e, cs-cart.com/images/



[URL]http://www.cscartdemo.martfox.com/images/detailed/web-hosting-martfox.jpg[/URL]



This is only the way you upload the image in cs-cart image directory.



What I am looking for an external image directory for cs-cart store for example



[URL]http://www.imagescscartdemo.martfox.com/images/detailed/web-hosting-martfox.jpg[/URL][/quote]

I see… I didn’t check that, I thought the image will be called from the external URL. Then it seems that wouldn’t be possible without a modification.

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[quote name=‘indy0077’]I see… I didn’t check that, I thought the image will be called from the external URL. Then it seems that wouldn’t be possible without a modification.[/QUOTE]



Yes modifications are needed, I am not a computer programmer, can you find a way out? The config.local.php gives an option to change the image path, but this is an absolute path. I am not sure if it can accept a url here.

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[quote name=‘ypg’]Yes modifications are needed, I am not a computer programmer, can you find a way out? The config.local.php gives an option to change the image path, but this is an absolute path. I am not sure if it can accept a url here.[/quote]

The best way will be to contact the CS-Cart Support with your question.