The Best Magento Hosting
When it comes to magento hosting for your online commerce site there are a lot of things to consider but only a few that really matter, and that is will it allow you to get the most out opt your magento web-store without the need to use a dedicated server? The problem with most people hosting is basically the timeouts, execution time and input vars which basically govern wether your magento community or enterprise site will be able to import or export data correctly, run large email campaigns, synchronise your ebay and amazon orders and reindex your data in your DB.
Avoid VPS servers
The reason a VPS server will never be as fast as a dedicated server(and in-fact a lot of shared hosting services too) is they are basically limited by the network speed as they use separate servers to hold data and CPU's and RAM so everything goes through a bottleneck and is completely limited so no matter how many CPU and GB of RAM you buy you will never be as fast as a dedicated server with less resources!!
Specialists V General hosts
When you are choosing a magento host while many of the big companies like heart internet, godaddy, hostgator all say they are magento hosts they just offer a service that can also be used with magento rather than a hosting service that has been setup to specifically run magento and commerce websites (which are CPU intensive and need very different optimisation for all the database options and queries they will run) .
The other thing to ask the company you want to look after your web server is do they offer support for Magento problems and issues, as the difference between having this type of support to ask questions of and not is from $50-$150 per hour and save you a lot of hassle with common issues and problems if your not an experienced developer this should be one of your biggest considerations.
Take a look at this table it is easy to see who offers the best service and see the explanation of why each setting is important below the table;
Avoid VPS servers
The reason a VPS server will never be as fast as a dedicated server(and in-fact a lot of shared hosting services too) is they are basically limited by the network speed as they use separate servers to hold data and CPU's and RAM so everything goes through a bottleneck and is completely limited so no matter how many CPU and GB of RAM you buy you will never be as fast as a dedicated server with less resources!!
Specialists V General hosts
When you are choosing a magento host while many of the big companies like heart internet, godaddy, hostgator all say they are magento hosts they just offer a service that can also be used with magento rather than a hosting service that has been setup to specifically run magento and commerce websites (which are CPU intensive and need very different optimisation for all the database options and queries they will run) .
The other thing to ask the company you want to look after your web server is do they offer support for Magento problems and issues, as the difference between having this type of support to ask questions of and not is from $50-$150 per hour and save you a lot of hassle with common issues and problems if your not an experienced developer this should be one of your biggest considerations.
Take a look at this table it is easy to see who offers the best service and see the explanation of why each setting is important below the table;
PHP mem Limit = The total ram each account is limited to by the server and has to run tasks(VERY IMPORTANT)
Max Upload = The max upload file size in PHP
Max Execution = The timeout setting that allows for jobs to complete (under 100 makes the hosting useless for most tasks.)
Max Input Time = The time the hosting account allows to receive data into your DB
Max input Vars = The variables the hosting is limited to and is able to process at one time (Needed for variables on your products and for any ebay items with options)
To make everything run correctly for M2e Pro (for synchronising your orders to and from ebay and amazon), Magmi(used for importing and exporting your product information and catalog).
Visit Simple Servers here
jwoffer = 10% off the value of your first order
jjoff = 1 month free on any shared plan (inc normal shared, SSD shared and M2e Pro plans)
Max Upload = The max upload file size in PHP
Max Execution = The timeout setting that allows for jobs to complete (under 100 makes the hosting useless for most tasks.)
Max Input Time = The time the hosting account allows to receive data into your DB
Max input Vars = The variables the hosting is limited to and is able to process at one time (Needed for variables on your products and for any ebay items with options)
To make everything run correctly for M2e Pro (for synchronising your orders to and from ebay and amazon), Magmi(used for importing and exporting your product information and catalog).
Visit Simple Servers here
jwoffer = 10% off the value of your first order
jjoff = 1 month free on any shared plan (inc normal shared, SSD shared and M2e Pro plans)