10/16/2012| 09:05am US/Eastern
Ecommerce Platform Deepens Partner Relationships for Higher Level
of Service, Performance for Merchants
Magento, a leading eCommerce platform provider and a division of
X.commerce, Inc., an eBay Inc. (NASDAQ: EBAY) company, announced details
of a program extending Magento’s partnership benefits to web hosting
providers. The Magento Hosting Partner Program recognizes the strategic
role that web hosting providers play in delivering on the high quality
of service Magento merchants expect from the leading eCommerce platform.
The program helps ensure close strategic alliances and joint commitments
for hosting partners. Magento established the program to make it easy
for merchants to get their sites up and running in a world-class
environment. The multi-level program also offers training, expanded
visibility and promotion opportunities across the eBay Inc. family of
products including PayPal, MarketPlaces and X.commerce.
“This program underscores the important role that our hosting partners
play in Magento’s ability to deliver on the exceptional capabilities and
performance that customers have come to expect from Magento,” said
Annette Merriman business development manager at X.commerce. “By jointly
addressing the needs of merchants and other partners and contributors to
our ecosystem, we can work to drive better experiences for all our
merchants.”
The Hosting
Partner Program consists of three tiers with different levels of
commitment, including Platinum (listed below), Gold (Simple
Helix) and Silver (Neoverve).
Magento and its highly diversified partner network are committed to
continuous innovation with the goal of staying at the forefront of
commerce evolution. The X.commerce open ecosystem, in which Magento
plays a key role, empowers all participants to take advantage of an
unprecedented choice of technologies needed for end-to-end commerce –
shopping carts, payment services, inventory management, marketplace
integration, SEO, tax guidance and more- all in one location.
Magento is committed to working to provide the best possible support,
performance and experience for its merchants by guiding them to
long-time partners focused on successful Magento implementations. While
Magento sites can be hosted anywhere, hosting providers signed on to the
program have a level of familiarity with Magento products as most of
them have hosted numerous sites on the platform.
The newly signed Platinum Partners include:
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Nexcess:
Nexcess is an Ann Arbor, Michigan-based managed hosting company
founded in 2000, with wholly-owned data centers located in Dearborn
and Southfield, Michigan. Nexcess offers a variety of hosting services
ranging from entry-level packages to custom clustered/complex hosting
configurations, with an emphasis on mission-critical hosting for
high-profile eCommerce web sites.
“We are gratified to continue on our place as a Platinum-tier Magento
Hosting Partner,” commented Chris Wells, President and CEO of Nexcess,
“We consider a close relationship with the organizations that develop
the software that we build our hosting solutions on to be a vital part
of providing the best value to our clients. Those relationships help
nurture and strengthen the developing Magento ecosystem, and greatly
benefit Magento users, hosts, and developers.”
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PEER
1 Hosting: PEER 1 Hosting is built on two obsessions: Ping
People. Ping, represents its commitment to best-in-breed technology,
founded on a high performance 10Gbps FastFiber Network? connected by
20 state-of-the-art datacenters, 22 points-of-presence and 10
colocation facilities throughout North America and Europe. People,
represents its commitment to delivering outstanding customer service
to its more than 13,000 customers worldwide, backed by a 100 percent
uptime guarantee and 24x7x365 FirstCall Support?. PEER 1 Hosting’s
portfolio includes Managed
Hosting, Dedicated Servers, Colocation
and Cloud Services.
“We could not be more pleased to be entering into a hosting
partnership with Magento/X.commerce as one of its charter Platinum
partners. Over the last two years we have been able to work hand-in-hand
with the dedicated teams and leadership inside Magento. This partnership
is the culmination of tireless efforts on both sides to create a
uniquely optimized hosting solution for Magento users. This allows the
customers installing and using the Magento platform to build successful
businesses,” said Jay Newman, SVP of Sales and Marketing for PEER 1
Hosting. “We look forward to continued alignment with Magento to deliver
a best-in-class hosting infrastructure for eCommerce businesses for
years to come.”
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ZeroLag:
You already know the feeling, even if you didn’t know there was a word
for it. “Lag” is that annoying time gap that keeps your customers
waiting for your site to load. Some hosting companies are willing to
allow a little lag here and there; Not ZeroLag. By combining
high-performance technology with a custom engineering approach,
ZeroLag delivers lightning fast Magento ecommerce hosting solutions
for merchants who don’t want their customers to wait. However, we
don’t just stop at speed. Every Magento hosting deployment is
engineered from the ground up to be scalable and secure with a 100%
network uptime guarantee. We look forward to engineering and hosting
your Magento powered business.
“ZeroLag is excited to be a Magento Platinum Hosting Partner and
together we will provide the most optimized Magento solutions in the
market. We have been hosting Magento Enterprise and Community
Editions for over five years and during that time period have developed
a deep and ingrained knowledge of the optimization process, said Greg
Strelzoff, President CEO of ZeroLag. “Combining Magento’s world class
eCommerce solution with ZeroLag’s dedication to support, performance,
reliability and security will provide every client the industrial
strength, mission critical website they desire.”
X.commerce and Magento complete their eCommerce platform with a full
suite of world-class consulting, training and certification offerings.
Developed and delivered by experts who know the product from a
development and deployment standpoint, these experts can ensure
merchants, developers, and partners efficiently and effectively leverage
the platform for their business needs. To learn more about the Hosting
Partner Program: www.MagentoCommerce.com/partners
and www.x.com/partners
About Magento
The Magento eCommerce platform serves more than 125,000 merchants
worldwide and is supported by a global ecosystem of solution partners
and third-party developers. Magento is a feature-rich, open-source,
enterprise-class platform that offers merchants a high degree of
flexibility and control over the user experience, catalog, content and
functionality of their online store. In August 2011, Magento was
acquired by eBay Inc., and is now a division of X.commerce, Inc. (an
eBay Inc. company).
For Magento
Matthew Torres, 650-762-2916
Matthew.torres@edelman.com
