Improving Magento performance is at the top of the list for most professional Magento developers. There’s no doubt that enhancing the speed at which Magento performs can only be good for business.
Magento Containers now comes with a one-click installer for Magento. You can install Magento, with or without store sample data, in minutes by accessing your site’s control panel.
We’re excited to announce Magento Containers, an industry first, highly optimized hosting environment built specifically for Magento. Now available for immediate purchase, Magento Containers comes in a Lite and Pro version to fit any budget.
It is our pleasure to announce a collaborative partnership with Varien, the developers of Magento, a professional Open Source ecommerce solution.
Split-Shared web hosting is a unique, technologically advanced method of delivering web-based services such as web sites, email, etc. The technology behind Split-Shared hosting is what sets it apart from traditional hosting services.
Using a combination of technologies including virtualization, server clusters, iSCSI SAN network storage, portable IP address space, proprietary resource monitoring and management, Split-Shared web hosting breaks the mold that was once "shared" hosting.
Just a short update post for anyone who subscribed to our blog’s RSS feed because of the contest.
I’ve been reading a lot of posts on the Magento forum about installation troubles, specifically with mod_rewrite (htaccess) and the MySQLi and PDO_MySQL extensions for PHP. As mentioned in our Magento installation guide, Crucial’s Split-Shared hosting is fully compatible with Magento.
This is a step-by-step tutorial on installing Magento Commerce on one of our Split-Shared hosting accounts. I was recently introduced to Magento in a pre-sales chat. Up until that chat, I had never heard about it, but decided to check it out.
I’ve personally used and recommended osCommerce whenever someone asked about a good shopping cart program, but I have to admit, this is by far the best open source application out there.
You see a lot of "you get what you pay for" at various forums that discuss cheap web hosting. The web hosting industry has in fact grown cheaper over the years as the prices of hardware like memory and drive space have come down. However, that does not necessarily equate to "cheap web hosting."
At approximately 10:15am November 3rd one of the Crucial web servers came under a massive coordinated DDOS (Distributed Denial of Service Attack). The attack came in three massive bursts which were effective in denying httpd service to clients of that host for very brief periods of less than 30 minutes each.
The attack came in a three separate, independent bursts which are illustrated below.
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