Magento servers....

[brc]

Hi all

I think I am finally making progress with my site.

Is there anyone who has a Magento store on here, and could you please advise what hosting company you are with and how much you pay a month and for what service.

I am looking for something that is lightning fast and would like to hear from those with experience of these things.

Kind Regards
Bobby

 

[jacobc]

Hi Bobby,

Decent web hosting for Magento sites is not cheap and you will pay at least £30 a month in my experience. A lot of it will come down to the number of modules you are using, the customisations that have been done and how many people are regularly on your site.

Magento is a great piece of software but it can be very resource intensive.

If you have any questions, let me know.

Regards

Jacob

 

[AndyP]

Take a look at NuBlue
https://www.nublue.co.uk/

 

[WebhostingUKCom]

We offer fully managed dedicated servers, I will personally suggest SSD Server with nginx webserver gives very good performance for magento store. you can take a look at our plans at :

http://www.webhostinguk.com/dedicated/dedicated-servers.html

If you have any questions about our plans and management service feel free to contact us at : Live Chat support .. we are available 24x7x365 days.

 

[antropy]

Magento store ... lightning fast

Now there's an oxymoron

However, I have heard good things about these chaps. I think they post on this forum sometimes: http://dx3webs.com/

 

[brc]

I was thinking of putting it onto Amazon hosting... I know magento hosting will cost a bit, but there are some lightning quick sites out there...Antropy ...perhaps you should look at Griffin website theres is magento and also lightning quick.

 

[antropy]

you should look at Griffin website theres is magento and also lightning quick.

Yes it's possible with an advanced server setup and a decent budget but £30/month is not a decent budget.

What's the link anyway? I'd be interested to see how they're doing it...

 

[8420PR]

I've been using Magento since 2011, and started with shared hosting from justhost. Very cheap (£2 a month), but also very slow.

I then moved to Ramnode, with a SSD VPS. This was a very fast server, but I just felt uneasy sharing it with other users. Cost was USD $10 a month for 1GB RAM.

I currently have a dedicated server with online.net; costing €35 a month (including a few more ip's).
The ramnode VPS server and online.net dedicated server are unmanaged servers, so I have to do all the server/magento setup and optimisation. My experience is this is where you can make big differences to the magento's speed, but you need either time (to learn, and lots of trial&error and speedtesting) or linux/server/magento experience.

I would recommend magenx if want to buy a server management service.

 

[bizzyrizzy]

I would recommend siteground hosting cheap, fast, good support and they have varnish cache and memcache in cpanel which you can activate and makes your site around 4 times faster with them both activated


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[WHUK]

What size does the site account to? Unless it's too heavy, you can start with a decent VPS with 2-4 GB RAM and 1-2 CPU's should be sufficient to get things rolling.

 

[NuBlue]

Hi all

I think I am finally making progress with my site.

Is there anyone who has a Magento store on here, and could you please advise what hosting company you are with and how much you pay a month and for what service.

I am looking for something that is lightning fast and would like to hear from those with experience of these things.

Kind Regards
Bobby

Take a look at NuBlue
https://www.nublue.co.uk/

Hi Bobby,

We'd be happy to discuss your Magento requirements if you'd like to get in touch by PM or give us a call.

(Thanks AndyP )

 

[antropy]

The ramnode VPS server and online.net dedicated server are unmanaged servers, so I have to do all the server/magento setup and optimisation. My experience is this is where you can make big differences to the magento's speed, but you need either time (to learn, and lots of trial&error and speedtesting) or linux/server/magento experience.

I'd add that unless you're an experienced Linux Sysadmin, don't go for unmanaged!

 

[Alan]

Yes it is important to understand the difference between managed and un managed. You can get a decent 4GB / 2 cpu SSD virtual server for under £30 a month un managed. But if you want any sort of management / support / monitoring start adding £50-100 / month on top.

 

[Ste Hughes]

We get sub 0.5s page load speed using magento on a dedicated OVH server.

 

[arunthomas203]

Hi,

My recommendation would be rackspace. It is expesive, but worth the amout you pay. Also check for nexcess, Magemojo etc. They are also reliable hosting providers.

On the other hand check make sure your magento is optimized. Use CDN for media so that it reduces load to server. If you are using Magento community version, it will be slower when compared with Magento Enterprise version as it lacks the full page cache feature. Never mind as there are some 3rd party extensions available which takes care of this. Compress your CSS and JS, Enable compilation, disable logging etc will improve the performance of magento. Also install APC cache in the server. If you need lightning speed, my recommendation will be Varnish Cache.

All the best

Thanks
Arun

 

[dx3webs]

Hey,
We would love to give you a quote.. all our packages are fast but of course you need to pick the right package for your site. Drop me a line if you would like a quote. Packages start at £14.99 pm and we are happy to offer a free trial to any one so you know exactly what you are signing up for.

 

[cloudxhosting]

A little bit of self promotion here but we can hot your magento store for under £30/month. Our data centres are in the UK and our infrastructure is high performance and running on SSD storage so it's super fast. Also we use CDNify for content caching. We can even support your migration or development. Best of all your first month is Free.

check it out and if you PM me, I can send you a discount code for even more savings.

Google "Cloudxtiny"

 

[acornia]

Now there's an oxymoron

No, it's not, just very rare and very difficult, hence why we use the technology stack which performs this (we work on the business side so bring in the stack). If you then add cheap in to the equation, well that's just being greedy and of course it doesn't work that way. Sub-second page loads, no full page caching, <500ms ttfb, and 95/100 test performance.

The main problem is that its a business solution to a technical problem that is Magento, it doesn't sit very well in the Magento community, the architects told us stories about one of the via via small business consultancies who wanted to resell the stack, it was a mess. Magento and limited technology stack to meet business needs equals Armageddon for anyone even attempting to propose it.