A screenshot of a demo Magento ecommerce page
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Magento hosting provider MageMojo announced on Wednesday that it has completed its expansion into a new Equinix data center in Pittsburgh.
According to the press release, the move will expand MageMojo’s network while quadrupling its power and rack capacity.
Magento is an open source e-commerce platform that has picked up in popularity since its acquisition by eBay in June 2011. It is used as the base for several web hosting providers e-commerce packages including Nexcess, PEER 1 and Coeus Blue.
“Colocating inside a carrier neutral facility like Equinix allows us to put our equipment less than 50 feet from the Tier 1 internet carriers. This provides a unique advantage of lower latency network connectivity over our competitors who chose to colocate their equipment in a manner that requires them to backhaul long distances into carrier neutral facilities. We’ve combined that lower latency with route optimization software from Cisco, to always find the best route from all our carriers. The end result is that we’re able to provide some of the lowest latency routes around the world which means faster page load times for our customers. Our expansion into this new data center and the many optimization techniques that we use on our servers, make us the fastest Magento hosting provider.”
The Equinix data center is a carrier neutral facility that has direct connections to many of the Tier 1 internet providers worldwide. According to the website, it offers the largest number of carrier connectivity options of any carrier neutral facility in the Pittsburgh area.
Located within a 250 to 350 miles radius of the Washington, DC, Philadelphia and New York metro areas, the data center is 20, 718 square feet.
