Magento is built to handle serious ecommerce.
Large product catalogues, configurable products, customer accounts, advanced search, multiple store views and complex integrations make it incredibly powerful.
But all that functionality brings considerable technical weight.
Every category view, product search, basket update and checkout request can involve PHP execution, database queries and data retrieval.
Without the right infrastructure beneath it, a Magento store can become slower and less responsive as workloads increase, creating a frustrating experience for shoppers and potentially harming sales.
20i Magento Hosting is designed to meet these demands.
We combine managed cloud servers with optimised PHP, dedicated resources and global performance to ensure websites stay strong even during the busiest shopping periods.
Here’s why Magento is faster with 20i.
Dedicated power to keep sales moving
We provide your Magento store with the room it needs to work.
Running entirely on Managed Cloud Servers, your processor cores, RAM and SSD storage aren’t being shared with other customers, meaning you aren’t affected by resource intensive “noisy neighbours”.
That matters because Magento performance can change dramatically depending on what your customers are doing.
A visitor opening a cached content page might require little server processing.
Someone searching a large catalogue, filtering products, logging into their account or progressing through checkout creates a much more dynamic workload.
Put hundreds of those interactions together and the demands on the server quickly increase.
With 20i, you can choose the Managed Cloud Server resources appropriate for your store and seamlessly move to a larger configuration as those requirements grow.
This gives Magento a predictable pool of processing power rather than competing for resources inside a conventional shared hosting environment.
Optimised PHP to handle dynamic requests
Magento is a weighty platform which relies on a significant amount of PHP processing.
The following requests all place demands on the PHP layer:
- Loading dynamically generated product pages
- Shopping cart updates
- Account logins and data retrieval
- Discount codes
- Calculating shipping & taxes
- Processing checkout steps
- Running extensions and integrations
Our Managed Cloud Servers use Optimised PHP-FPM to manage these dynamic processes efficiently. By allocating backend resources dynamically as requests come in, it ensures your server handles complex tasks quickly without crashing or slowing down.
Alongside this, PHP OPcache stores precompiled PHP bytecode directly in memory. This eliminates the need to parse and compile code from scratch on every page load, drastically reducing CPU usage and delivering faster response times for your customers.
All our Magento plans include unlimited PHP workers as standard, ensuring optimal application response under heavy load and avoiding bottlenecks. The available CPU and memory still determine how much work a server can process at once, but you aren’t dealing with an arbitrary worker cap that prevents Magento from making use of the resources available to it.
This means that your store is better equipped to handle spikes in traffic and sustained pressure.
Faster data access with Redis
Magento stores often require a huge number of database operations.
Configuration, layout and product data may need to be loaded repeatedly as customers move around the store and customer sessions need to be stored and retrieved on every request.
Depending on its version and configuration, Magento can store cache and session data using different storage backends, however repeatedly retrieving this data from slower storage creates additional work and can increase response times.
This step can be made significantly more efficient with the use of Redis.
Redis cache keeps suitable data in memory, where it can be retrieved much quicker than repeatedly reading from file or database storage.
We include Redis with all our Magento Hosting, providing Magento with an in-memory caching layer directly alongside the application.
Read more about Redis caching.
Elasticsearch helps shoppers find what they need
Many Magento stores include large product catalogues with thousands of SKUs, product options and filters.
Magento uses a dedicated search engine to handle catalogue search and product filtering efficiently, rather than relying on its main transactional database for this work.
To support this, all 20i Magento plans include Elasticsearch at no extra cost.
Elasticsearch builds a dedicated index of data, allowing relevant products to be retrieved quickly even across large catalogues.
Faster search means a better shopping experience for your visitors, increasing the likelihood of them finding what they want and making a purchase.
High Speeds for International Shoppers
Every 20i Magento Hosting plan includes our free 20iCDN and Edge Cache.
With nodes across 6 continents, this means that your visitors can experience lightning-fast page loads wherever they are in the world.
Unlike other providers, our CDN isn’t a slimmed down version of Cloudflare, it’s a fully featured, custom built CDN with no limits.
This also differs from providers such as Cloudways and Nexcess, where CDN services can include traffic allowances or additional charges.
Serving static content from cache leaves more of your server’s resources available for PHP execution, database queries and the other dynamic processing Magento needs to perform, helping to streamline the overall browsing experience.
Optimise images and code at server level
Ecommerce stores can often be asset-heavy, with product photography, banners, JavaScript and CSS increasing page weight and the amount of data a browser needs to download and process.
This usually leads to time consuming work manually minimising these asset sizes or relying on a third-party product.
Our Magento Hosting optimises all of this at the server level, with the intuitive Website Acceleration Suite.
With over 40 optimisations available including automatic image resizing, code minification and lazy loading, the website acceleration suite offers you efficient, granular control over what you wish to fine tune.
Less technical users can also apply our recommended settings with a single click.
As we covered in our guide to Magento SEO, there is a large ecosystem of extensions offering CDN, image optimisation, code minification and other performance functionality.
Those extensions can be useful, but every additional component adds more code, another dependency and potentially another cost to the store.
Handling more of that work at the hosting layer keeps your website lean and responsive.
Robust security for stress free shopping
Nothing will lose shoppers’ trust quicker than a store that is vulnerable to security issues.
Ecommerce stores are continuously hit with bot traffic, brute force login attempts or DDoS attacks so they need to ensure they can stand up to these and keep their customers’ data safe.
Even if attacks don’t compromise the websites sensitive data, they can compete with genuine shoppers for capacity and drain performance.
To avoid this, we build enterprise level security into all our hosting, with multiple layers of protection including:
- Enterprise-level DDoS protection
- Web Application Firewall protection
- Anti-bot protection
- Automatic malware scanning
- Automated Magento patching
- Brute-force login protection
- FTP Lock
- Two-factor authentication
- Free SSL certificates
All our servers are also PCI DSS compliant, providing a foundation designed to support the security requirements that apply to payment card data.
Again, by having all of this baked into the server level, it helps to keep your store secure and avoids the need to rely on costly, resource intensive third-party extensions.
Backups without competing for your server resources
Backups are essential for an ecommerce store, but creating them shouldn’t mean placing another heavy workload on the production server.
Our Timeline Backups Manager provides automated daily snapshots, with backup storage kept separate from the resources used by your live Magento site.
You can also create on-demand snapshots and restore through our My20i control panel when required.
Because backup storage is managed independently from the production site’s resources, maintaining restore points doesn’t mean sacrificing the disk allocation intended for your store.
Expert Magento support when you need it
Magento is an extremely capable platform, but that capability also makes it more complicated than smaller ecommerce systems.
If something does go wrong with your hosting, our award-winning support team are on hand 24×7, 365 days a year to help you out.
We also have an extensive support database and Twentie, our virtual hosting assistant, is available through My20i to help troubleshoot issues and report on account information.
Compare Magento Hosts
Selecting the platform to host your Magento store comes down to understanding the exact capabilites of the platform, and how well it will support Magento’s resource heavy functions.
The table below breaks down the core limits, features and specs of a 20i Magento plans against the equivalent from Cloudways and Nexcess.
Built for Magento performance
Our Magento Hosting isn’t a generic hosting package with a few ecommerce features added on top.
It is a Magento optimised hosting service built around Managed Cloud Servers and designed for the demands of a resource intensive ecommerce platform.
The success of an ecommerce store ultimately comes down to sales and our platform features are built with that in mind.
Processing power for dynamic requests, efficient PHP execution, fast access to frequently requested data and dedicated search capabilities all help create a faster, more responsive shopping experience, reducing friction that can stand between your customers and a completed purchase.
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