Magento hosting on a dedicated environment
Magento is not an ordinary website but a full e-commerce platform, and it needs a server environment of its own: plenty of working memory, a separate search service alongside PHP and the database, and background tasks that keep running. That belongs on a managed VPS or a dedicated server, not on shared hosting.
Putting Magento on an environment that is too small gives you a slow shop, and slow shops cost orders. Here is what the platform genuinely needs, so you pick the right environment first time.
What Magento asks of its environment
Plenty of working memory
Magento needs considerably more memory per request than an ordinary CMS, both for the storefront and for the admin. This is why shared hosting falls short here.
A separate search service
Magento's catalogue search and filtering run on a separate search engine next to PHP and the database. That service needs an environment of its own — exactly what a VPS or dedicated server gives you.
Background tasks that keep running
Indexing, mail queues and stock processing run in the background. If they stall, prices, stock and order mails fall behind without the shop looking broken.
Fast storage and a considered cache
A shop reads and writes constantly. SSD storage is the minimum; the cache layers then decide how fast the shop feels.
Which environment does Magento belong on?
For Magento we start on a managed VPS and scale up to a dedicated server as the catalogue and traffic grow. Tell us how large your catalogue is and what traffic you expect, and we put the environment together to match.
What is a VPS?What most often goes wrong with Magento
Starting too small
A Magento shop on an environment not built for it is not slow because of one setting, but because of everything at once. No plugin fixes that.
Testing without cache
A Magento shop tested with all caches off always feels slow. Measure it the way a visitor sees it, with caches on.
Stacking extensions
Every extra module runs on every page view. On Magento that weighs heavier than on any other platform.
