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Magento Hosting

Targeting our servers exclusively at Magento users allows us to maintain formidable performance that's tuned specifically to the platform, while a bespoke pricing structure passes on considerable savings to our clients, no matter how large or small.

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Server
Memory

4

GB

Disc Space

160

GB

Network Transfer

1600

GB

Monthly Price

£

329

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Advanced

  • Setup Cost: £150
  • Transfer Site: £199

Designed for Magento Enterprise and Professional sites that are starting to mature and get busier. If you have a medium sized existing site this is the best place to start. Upgrades to higher packages can be arranged with almost zero downtime. This system runs on fast and fault-tolerant mirrored RAID drives to protect from hardware failure. The server is fully managed to include regular backups, ensure latest operating system updates and security patches are applied, and regular security sweeps. All services are constantly monitored for downtime and potential problems for pro-active responses.

* Based on a 12 month contract, optionally a 1 month rolling contract costs an additional £20 per month.

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Highlights

See why you should be hosting your Magento site with us...

  • +Fully managed hosting.

    We use the latest stable releases of available software/Operating Systems, keeping it up-to-date at all times, ensuring your server's software is secure, doesn't go out of date and has the latest features.

  • +UK and US based datacenters.

    Our technical team are on hand when you need it, our support plans are there to support your site when things don't work as they should do.

  • +Super Fast VPS Environment.

    Our network has several redundant links to the internet with advanced security and uptime monitoring to virtually eliminate network downtime.

  • +High levels of Security and Reliability.

    As and when new server security patches/updates are released we'll ensure your server is updated with the latest fix, and regularly do server security sweeps, keeping your data safe, site running and your customers happy.

  • +High Performance Magento Hosting

    Fast and secure multi-core virtual private servers (VPS) allow for easy and fast upgrades and transfer to different hardware with minimal downtime.

  • + Mirrored RAID with redundancy

    Highly reliable server hardware, using mirrored RAID with redundant disks to allow for multiple drive failures without loss of data or service.

  • +Magento Partners

    We are Magento partners with several years of experience in optimising Magento servers.

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Super fast, reliable, redundant and secure network.

Our network has several redundant links to the internet with advanced security and uptime monitoring to virtually eliminate network downtime.

High Performance Magento Hosting

Fast and secure multi-core virtual private servers (VPS) allow for easy and fast upgrades and transfer to different hardware with minimal downtime.

High levels of Security and Reliability.

As and when new server security patches/updates are released we'll ensure your server is updated with the latest fix, and regularly do server security sweeps, keeping your data safe, site running and your customers happy.

24x7 Monitoring

Our servers are monitored 24x7 and we are notified of many server statuses before they become problems to allow our engineers to respond pro-actively.

Current Uptime Report

Updated every 15 minutes

99.999%

Hosting Case Study: Rare Fashion

Rare Fashion is a popular clothing company who sell their lines of cutting edge fashion to clients such as Topshop who have more recently started to sell online as well...

Issues

  • They were hosted with a well known leading server host.
  • The more customers, products and complex the site got, the higher the load on the servers became.
  • As with many hosting companies, they upgraded the servers more and more but with two servers with a total of 48GB ram (and very high monthly costs) they still found their servers were crashing several times a day.
  • While their host claimed to be Magento experts, they unable to resolve the problems and were left fire-fighting, restarting Apache web servers whenever they noticed the site went down, and in several cases not until Rare Fashion noticed it was down out-of-hours.
  • Critically this downtime was occurring at peak times when the demand was highest meaning the downtime was coming at the worst possible time causing lost revenue.
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Solution

We at The Pixel monitored the situation on the current server and investigated the current setup and configuration.

Throwing money at the hardware clearly wasn't the solution.

We designed a custom server configuration that included a load balancer that controlled and distributed and monitored traffic to the site between 3 web servers and giving additional redundancy and a separate database and caching server.

Should a web server go down the load balancer automatically pulls the affected machine out of the rotation, informs our systems administrators (who monitor server and service status 24x7), and then continues serving the website with no interruptions via the other servers until the issue is resolved.

The Pixel use Nginx web server software. Nginx is a highly optimised, lightweight web server that uses less memory than Apache, allowing it to be run on servers with less memory, saving money.

Many optimisations were made to the Magento set-up including tuning the MySQL database to the site's specific needs, tuning Memcache configuration and many low-level Linux optimisations.

This server configuration was then tested using the latest copy of the live website and then stress-tested to ensure it was able to cope with the traffic the previous hosts was seeing.

Results

During a quiet period when there were very few visitors to the live site, the site was taken off-line for a few minutes to do the same stress testing to benchmark both server configurations.

(More requests per second is better)

Home page on old host:

  • Requests per second: 162.35 [#/sec] (mean)

Home page on new Pixel servers:

  • Requests per second: 377.26 [#/sec] (mean)

Category page on old host:

  • Requests per second: 2.97 [#/sec] (mean)

It was obvious there was something wrong with these category pages being so much slower than others.

Due to incompatibilities with a module on the site after upgrading to Magento Enterprise, their previous host was unable to get Full Page Caching working.

Because The Pixel are both Magento developers and hosts, we were able to solve the problem and achieve a huge boost in performance:

Category page on new Pixel servers:

  • Requests per second: 400.35 [#/sec] (mean)

We produced a 135 times (13,400%) increase in speed over their old host through software configuration, hardware, optimisations and bug fixing.

After the benchmarks and other testing was complete, we took the old servers down for a few minutes with a holding page, synchronised the databases to the new servers then made the old servers pass through requests to the site to the new servers until the new servers were visible to everyone after a few hours, producing 5 minutes of downtime and no overlapping sales IDs or lost sales.

We have achieved greater than 99.99% uptime on the site where as their previous host had in several occasions more than an hour of downtime a day.

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The Pixel Magento Professional Partner

Since it was established in 2000, The Pixel has been dedicated to web design from its Bristol HQ in the UK. We immediately realised the potential of Magento when it emerged in 2007 and, since then, we've built the company around the platform, not only offering the highest standards of Magento development and support, but additional services from over a decade of industry experience such as online marketing, SEO, and tailored Magento Hosting to complement bespoke client packages.

* When you signup for 12 months hosting contract.