I built a magento ecommerce site about 1 year ago. Here's a quick summary of my experience:
Pros
- Beautiful themes out of the box
- Easy to setup initially (i.e. payment plug-ins,etc)
Cons
- Extremely slow on a shared host (i.e. netfirms)
- If your host is slow, using the admin panel to manage the content is painful
The performance issue killed it for me. Unless you can spend some more money on a good hosting service, I'd stay away from it. Otherwise, it's pretty awesome out of the box.
Pros - Beautiful themes out of the box - Easy to setup initially (i.e. payment plug-ins,etc)
Cons - Extremely slow on a shared host (i.e. netfirms) - If your host is slow, using the admin panel to manage the content is painful
The performance issue killed it for me. Unless you can spend some more money on a good hosting service, I'd stay away from it. Otherwise, it's pretty awesome out of the box.