Magento Hosting

Magento is a powerful and popular open-source e-commerce platform used by businesses of all sizes to create and manage online stores. It offers a wide range of features and flexibility, making it a top choice for businesses looking to establish an online presence and sell products or services on the internet.

Key features of Magento include:

• Customization: Magento allows you to customize the look and feel of your Magento shop to match your brand’s identity and unique requirements.
• Scalability: It’s designed to grow with your business. Whether you’re a small startup or a large enterprise, Magento can handle your needs.
• Rich Product Catalog: You can easily manage and display a vast catalog of products, including various product types, attributes, and options.
• SEO-Friendly: Magento comes with built-in SEO tools to help improve your website’s search engine rankings.
• Security: Security is a top priority, and Magento offers robust security features to protect your store and customer data.
• Third-Party Integrations: You can integrate Magento with various payment gateways, shipping providers, and other third-party tools to enhance your online store’s functionality.
• Mobile Responsiveness: Magento stores are designed to be mobile-friendly, ensuring a seamless shopping experience for users on smartphones and tablets.

Magento 2 is the next-generation version of the Magento e-commerce platform. It was developed to address the evolving needs of online businesses and provide an even more robust and user-friendly e-commerce solution. Including but not limited to: improved performance, more intuitive UI, enhanced mobile optimization, and more extensions that are easier to install and manage.

Magento Hosting services from InMotion Hosting support both versions of Magento, Magento 1 and Magento 2. Check out our blog to learn more about What is Magento?

You can download Magento for free as it is an open source application. Magento Community Edition is open-source and provides a robust e-commerce platform for businesses looking to set up an online store without the cost of licensing fees.

Web hosting for Magento is crucial because it provides the infrastructure, performance, security, and support needed to operate a successful online store. It’s the foundation upon which your Magento store is built, and choosing the right hosting provider is key to your e-commerce success.

Magento Hosting plans are specialized hosted Magento solutions tailored to the needs of Magento-based e-commerce websites. It’s designed to provide optimal performance, security, and scalability for your online store. If you run a Magento store, you need Magento Hosting to ensure your site runs smoothly and efficiently.

Our Magento website hosting solutions include server configurations, resources, and software optimizations that cater to the unique requirements of Magento. Regular hosting may not provide the same level of performance and support for Magento e-commerce stores. Here’s a few reasons why InMotion Hosting is one of the best Magento hosting providers:

• Custom Magento server stack: we host Magento on an optimized server stack and config with advanced caching for lightning-fast performance.
• 99.99% Uptime: We ensure your store is accessible to customers around the clock with redundant network connections and active network monitoring.
• Security: Our robust security measures protect your website from threats with DDoS protection and hack and malware prevention.
• Scalability: Easily scale your hosting resources as your business grows. Upgrade your plan, server, or hardware at any time.
• Expert human support: Our knowledgeable support team is available 24/7 to assist you.
• Fully Managed Magento hosting services available: Seamless website migration, server configuration and optimization, security hardening and more.

The choice of hosting type for Magento depends on your specific needs, budget, and technical expertise. Magento is a relatively resource-intensive application that performs best and most reliably with dedicated resources available to support it. Therefore, VPS and Dedicated Server hosting platforms are recommended.

VPS Hosting: Our VPS Hosting solutions for Magento offer all the dedicated resources, features, and flexibility you need to launch, build, and grow your unique Magento web store. VPS hosting is the ideal platform for establishing new Magento business sites or supporting most small to medium sized businesses running Magento.

• Scalability and Control: VPS hosting provides more control and resources than shared hosting. It’s ideal for growing stores and offers scalability to handle increased traffic.
• Isolation: Each VPS is isolated from others on the same physical server, which improves security and performance compared to shared hosting.

Dedicated Servers: Our Dedicated Servers tailored for Magento excel in powering larger eCommerce platforms like Magento open source and enterprise editions, and are optimized for managing high traffic and substantial transaction loads. If you seek greater control over your hosting environment and server, exploring bare metal servers is worthwhile, though technical expertise is required. Chat with one of our Dedicated Magento Server hosting specialists to learn more and find your best fit Magento hosting server.

• High Performance: Dedicated hosting offers an entire server dedicated exclusively to your Magento store. This provides the highest level of performance and control.
• Customization: You can fully customize the server environment to meet your store’s unique requirements.
• Best for Large Stores: Dedicated hosting is typically chosen by large e-commerce businesses with high traffic and resource demands.

With our Magento Hosting on VPS and Dedicated Servers, your Magento store resides on a physical server or dedicated virtual environment. You have complete control over your servers’ resources and configurations. Cloud Magento Hosting involves a distributed network of virtual servers. Your Magento store is hosted across multiple virtual machines in the cloud.

There are several benefits to hosting Magento on VPS or Dedicated Servers over cloud hosting:

• Resource Allocation: VPS and Dedicated Servers provide dedicated resources for your Magento store, ensuring consistent performance. In contrast, cloud hosting shares resources with other users, potentially leading to performance fluctuations.
• Customization: VPS and Dedicated Servers allow for deep customization of server settings, enabling you to tailor the environment to your specific Magento needs. Cloud hosting often has limitations on customization.
• Predictable Costs: VPS and Dedicated Servers typically offer predictable monthly costs, making budgeting easier. Cloud hosting often follows a pay-as-you-go model, which can result in variable and less predictable costs.
• Security Control: With VPS and Dedicated Servers, you have more control over security configurations, making it easier to implement custom security measures. In a shared cloud environment, security may be managed by the hosting provider.
• Performance Stability: VPS and Dedicated Servers offer consistent, high performance because you’re not sharing resources with other users. In a cloud environment, performance may vary based on the activities of other users on the same network.

So in many scenarios, VPS or Dedicated Servers are more suitable for hosting Magento sites. VPS or Dedicated Servers are ideal when you need full control and predictability over server resources, such as for high-traffic e-commerce stores with specific performance requirements. If you have resource-intensive operations, like large product catalogs or complex data processing, VPS/Dedicated Servers can deliver more stable and efficient performance. And compliance requirements may necessitate dedicated hosting, as it allows you to implement specific security measures and configurations.

Magento is the common name for the open-source application, which is free to use. Adobe Commerce is the name of the Adobe service that includes the Magento Enterprise application along with their Commerce Cloud platform. Adobe Commerce prices start at $22,000 per year and their Magento Cloud platform starts at $40,000 per year which includes Magento Enterprise services on a Magento cloud hosting platform. InMotion Hosting Magento Hosting solutions start at $34.99/mo and includes a custom server stack optimized for Magento performance, all application features, no vendor lock-in, available Magento managed hosting services, and 24/7 human support.

InMotion Hosting Magento Hosting solutions cover all the server requirements as recommended by Magento. So you get to enjoy hassle-free, powerful and reliable hosting that lets you focus on your business. Our Magento Hosting server stack offers CentOS as the OS (Debian and Ubuntu also available on Dedicated Servers), Apache, NGINX, PHP 7 & 8, Redis, PHP-FPM and all plans include free managed hosting services for custom server configs and additional enhancements like Varnish and Elasticsearch or OpenSearch at no extra cost.

For reference, here is a short but thorough list of essential Magento 2 server requirements:

• Magento OS and Web Services Requirements
  • Linux distributions like CentOS, Ubuntu, Debian or similar
  • Apache 2.2 or 2.4
  • NGINX 1.x
• Magento Database Requirements
  • MySQL 5.6, 5.7
  • MariaDB 5.6, 5.7
• Magento PHP Version Requirements
  • PHP 7 or PHP 8
  • PHP Settings like memory_limit
• Magento PHP Extensions Requirements
  • ext-bcmath
  • ext-ctype
  • ext-curl
  • ext-dom
  • ext-fileinfo
  • ext-filter
  • ext-gd
  • ext-hash
  • ext-intl
  • ext-mbstring
  • ext-openssl
  • ext-pcre
  • ext-pdo_mysql
  • ext-simplexml
  • ext-soap
  • ext-sockets
  • ext-sodium
  • ext-spl
  • ext-tokenizer
  • ext-xmlwriter
  • ext-xsl
  • ext-zip
  • ext-zlib
  • lib-libxml (lib)
  • json (PHP 7 only);
  • iconv (PHP 7 only).
• Magento Cacheing Requirements
  • PHP OPcache (recommended)
  • Redis
  • Varnish
  • mem-cached
• Magento Email Services Requirements
  • Mail Transfer Agent (MTA)
  • SMTP Server
• Magento SSL Requirements
  • A valid security certificate is required for HTTPS.
  • Self-signed SSL certificates are not supported.
• Other Magento Required Technologies
  • Elasticsearch or OpenSearch

Yes, absolutely! Our managed VPS hosting and Dedicated Servers solutions offer different server sizes and specifications to meet the needs of all Magento businesses, no matter how large your product catalog or how many visitors you receive. Our Dedicated Servers for Magento are especially ideal for established businesses that need a reliable and high performance solution that can scale with your business. Chat with us today for hosting and server recommendations or custom solutions.

Of course! At InMotion Hosting, we provide support for various ecommerce hosting platforms, as well as customized solutions beyond our Magento eCommerce Hosting plans. We understand the diverse requirements of our clients and aim to offer flexibility. We offer web hosting with ecommerce support for all the top eCommerce platforms: WooCommerce Hosting, OpenCart Hosting, PrestaShop Hosting, Drupal Hosting and more, including PHP hosting. Rest assured, we have the expertise and resources to fully support the platform you choose. If you need more information or assistance with your specific ecommerce needs, feel free to reach out to our team. We’re here to help!