Important Factors to Consider Before Choose Magento Host

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Considerations Before Selecting Magento Hosting
Service Provider
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Introduction

• As Magento is a complex software in nature, it
  requires a set of system requirements to keep it
  running and perform faster. The reliability,
  performance as well as the reputation of your
  store depends on the type of hosting services you
  are utilizing. Sometimes the hosting services can
  make or break your projects or business. Most of
  the Magento hosting companies try to meet its
  system requirements but still there are certain
  things which you should know about before you go
  for choosing any hosting provider for your
  Magento based eCommerce store.
• So, let us start with the basic things and then
  we will see the factors which affects the
  selection of hosting services.

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Hosting Types

• Hosting can be divided into two
  types
• Managed Hosting With managed hosting, you can
  take the advantages of server configuration,
  issues/error fixing and updates. Here, you have
  be dependent on the hosting company for any
  software installation or updates.
• Self-Service Hosting When you select the
  self-service hosting, you have to manage
  everything by yourself or you have to take the
  help of any third party specialists. You can add
  any of the features without any limitations here.
  

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Types of Servers

• There are 3 Types of
  Servers
• Shared Servers
• Dedicated Servers
• VPS/VDS Servers

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Shared Servers

• In a shared server, you can rent a part of the
  server as you share that server with other
  websites too. With a shared server, you get a
  limited disk space on the server, with limited
  number of email accounts, number of websites and
  databases.
• There is only one advantage of the shared servers
  i.e. its price. It is the cheapest option among
  the other servers.
• The other disadvantage of this server is that you
  can suffer from the hacker or spam attacks if any
  of the shared websites is suffering from the
  same. If any of the website has been penalized
  for any misconducts, all the other websites
  sharing that server will be blocked.

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Dedicated Servers

• It is the most costly server among the three
  server types. But the advantage of this server is
  that you get the maximum performance of your
  website as you are the only one using that
  particular server.
• The business people who want the best speed and
  ability for their websites, go for this type of
  server. Here, you have the full control over the
  server. You can update your server and site as
  well as install the software you need.

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VPS/VDS Servers

• In this server type, you get the full access over
  the admin.
• The advantage of this server that you can install
  the any number of software, low price and you can
  set the speed of the server.
• The negative point of this server is that
  performance of the virtual machines can depend
  upon the neighbour websites load.

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Factors for Selecting Hosting Services

• Factors to keep in mind while
  selecting the hosting
  provider for your Magento store
• Magento 2 Compatibility
• Hosting performance
• Support
• Website Security
• Scalability
• Traffic Peaks
• Hardware
• Company Culture

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Magento 2 Compatibility

• You should go for the Magento
  Hosting providers
  which supports all the Magento 2 system
  requirements
• Apache web server 2.2 or 2.4
• PHP 5.5.x or PHP 5.6.x
• Required PHP extensions PDO/MySQL, mbstring, mcry
  pt, mhash, SimpleXML, curl, xsl, gd, ImageMagick
  6.3.7 (or later) or both, SOAP, intl

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Magento 2 Compatibility

• MySQL 5.6.x
• The SSH provides the ability to use the Magento
  2.0 CLI and Composer.
• Varnish is must.
• Check whether your server meets the requirements
  of Magento 2.0 with a little PHP or not.
• You should have 1GB of RAM for each 2500 daily
  visitors. And 512MB available for OS processes
  and MySQL queries.

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Hosting Performance

• The main factor which influences the selection of
  hosting provider is the performance of the
  hosting server.
• And the loading speed of the website depends upon
  the type of hosting selected.
• However, you should go for the hosting provider
  company which knows how to isolate the hosting
  environment for your website.

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Support

• It is important to choose that Magento hosting
  provider which has best technical assistance on
  hosting problems and common Magento problems.
  The hosting providers should have well
  experienced technicians who are specialised in
  Magento platform.
• Because, it may happen that your website faces
  some issue which is unknown and it needs to be
  checked and fixed as soon as possible. This also
  means that you may lose some of your customers
  and a lot of money.

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Website Security

• You should select the servers which gives the
  high level of guaranteed safety. This is the
  initial step towards protecting your site from
  hackers and customers' access information.
• You should establish a firewall and filter IPs
  for the high-risk countries to whom you don't
  intend to sell the products.
• Also, you should make automated backups
  regularly, in case you somewhere need a
  roll-back.

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Scalability

• It may happen that you think about expanding your
  business as well store in future. You will
  increase the number of products you sell.
• And to get handsome amount of traffic on your
  site, you will run number of marketing events and
  promotions.
• For all this to happen, you must choose a hosting
  provider which fits into your requirements in the
  near future.

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Traffic Peaks

• When you plan to organize different marketing
  offers and events, you should be sure that it
  will increase the traffic on your site. And you
  should have something with which you can handle
  that amount of traffic without any hurdle.
• This can be managed with cloud or hosting
  providers.
• The capacities of the servers or hosting
  providers can be acquired by increasing the space
  in the servers and combining number of servers
  into a pool.

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Hardware

• When you are selecting any hosting provider
  services, you need to check whether the hardware
  used is the new one or repaired one.
• This is because many Magento hosting providers
  use some pre-owned hardware to the some extent,
  and therefore you should proactively ask them
  whether the hardware which is going into your
  environment is new or refurbished.

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Company Culture

• To know the hosting providers company culture, it
  wont be possible for you to visit their
  premises. But you can ask them about their
  monthly/annual turnover and the work experience
  of their engineers.This can be helpful because,
  if a company is having a new engineer or new
  employee every next month then that means they
  are not providing a good culture to them and good
  services to their clients.
• You can see that the retailers are happy whose
  hosting companies and development partners who
  work in complete coordination.

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Common Mistakes in Choosing the Magento Hosting

• Mistakes are done unintentionally but it can
  result into serious drawbacks/issues. And the
  loss can be big, monetary or something else.
  There are certain mistakes which are committed by
  the shop owners while selecting a hosting
  provider for their Magento store.
• So, why not prevent these issues by avoiding the
  common mistakes. Let us learn from others
  mistakes and perform better.

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Mistakes to Avoid While Selecting Magento Hosting

• Let us know about those
  mistakes and try to avoid them when you select a
  Magento hosting provider
• As Magento system does not support for Windows
  system, dont go for windows hosting.
• For making the Magento backend function in the
  right way, set the memory_limit512M and
  max_execution_time600 (ten minutes)
• Take and check backup copies of the Magento on
  regular basis

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Mistakes to Avoid While Selecting Magento Hosting

• If your store is gradually expanding, then you
  may need to check the logs for any errors and fix
  them for the relevant system settings.
• Dont go for the hosting providers who are
  offering the hosting services for free or at the
  lowest possible cost. This may seem save a lot of
  money but in reality they will take up your
  reputation, give poor server performance and
  unqualified engineers.

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Take Away

• Select the hosting provider as per the system
  requirements of the Magento version, your store
  size and the margin for the future growth.
• No hosting is the best Magento hosting for your
  store, but the hosting can be the suitable one
  for your business.
• Never use a Windows hosting for Magento
  platform.
• Do not select the cheapest hosting. You may face
  issues which will eventually cost you money as
  well as reputation.
• If you are unsure about which hosting to choose
  then go for a managed shared hosting service.

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Are you facing issue while selecting a Magento
hosting provider?

• Take your time to select a Magento hosting for
  your Store. Consider the points we have shared in
  the previous slides and then go for any Hosting
  provider.
• If you are still unsure, then contact our
  Magento experts and they will assist you in the
  selection of the best suitable Magento hosting
  for your eCommerce store. Visit
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