Thursday, September 13th, 2012
Vancouver, BC – September 13, 2012 – PEER 1 Hosting (TSX: PIX), a
global IT hosting provider, has released a series of
optimizations to further improve the performance of their
Managed Hosting solution for Magento, a leading eCommerce
platform provider and division of X.commerce, Inc., an eBay
Inc. (NASDAQ: EBAY) company. The enriched platform creates
a faster, more secure Magneto site with built in
redundancies that users can confidently rely on to support
their growing online businesses. This offering comes as
result of a partnership between the two companies to bring
customers a best-in-class eCommerce hosting solution.
Working together, PEER 1 Hosting and Magento have also
developed a whitepaper that provides a blueprint, with
validated performance and benchmarking data, on how
businesses may implement these optimizations and have the
best possible performing online storefront.
“We are thrilled with the results of our alliance with
Magento,” said Fabio
Banducci, President and CEO, PEER 1 Hosting. “As
part of our partnership, we looked at the changing
landscape of online shopping and understood that more
scalable and flexible solutions were required to meet the
growing needs of retailers. Magento users will be extremely
pleased with the results of our intense collaboration with
Magento and will experience a significant boost in the
performance of their eCommerce storefronts as a result of
these efforts. We also look forward to future collaboration
and strengthen our commitment to delivering world-class
eCommerce hosting solutions.”
Balancing website performance and user experience has
always been a challenging undertaking. This enhanced
solution enables users to deliver the best experience to
their online shoppers without sacrificing the performance
that drives online marketing efforts. Magento Optimized
Managed Hosting from PEER 1 Hosting is a turnkey
solution that delivers an infrastructure honed to meet
Magento’s intense technical requirements. It uses proven,
optimized and scalable infrastructure components to deliver
unsurpassed Magento performance and reliability including:
- Servers boasting the latest Intel Sandy Bridge chipset
- Optimized RHEL 5 and RHEL 6 for peak Magento performance
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Content acceleration leveraging memcache, Varnish, Nginx
and PHP-FPM - Improved database performance via Percona MySQL
Additional features of this robust platform include:
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PCI-DSS 2.0 Compliant: Those users who handle
and process customer card details and transactions
online, can now be assured that their applications can be
supported in a PCI compliant environment. -
Reliable Network Backbone: A fully redundant 10Gbps FastFiber
Network™ designed to support rich immersive eCommerce
experiences; state-of-the-art datacenters across the US,
UK and Canada and a portfolio of add-on managed services. -
Experienced Support: A team of infrastructure experts
available 24x7x365 to ensure that a user’s Magento
eCommerce platform runs smoothly and securely.
“This collaboration was the first of its kind and will
yield countless benefits to our clients and partner
ecosystem,” said Baruch Toledano, Director of Product
Management for Magento. “The end result is a platform that
was constructed with our users needs in mind. We
thank PEER 1 Hosting for their contributions and we look
forward to working with them in the future as we continue
delivering superior eCommerce solutions.”
Retailers interested in how to further optimize their
online storefronts can download the whitepaper at:
http://www.peer1.com/hosting/magento-hosting
For more information and to purchase Magneto Optimized
Managed Hosting, please visit:
http://www.peer1.com/hosting/magento-optimized-managed-hosting
Earlier this year, Magento was named
PEER 1 Hosting’s 2011 Partner of the Year.
About PEER 1 Hosting
PEER 1 Hosting is one of the world’s leading IT hosting
providers. The company 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™.
Info-Tech Research Group named PEER 1 Hosting as a
“Champion” in its Canadian colocation and managed services
Vendor Landscape report, recognizing the company’s strength
in product offerings and enterprise strategy in the global
IT marketplace. PEER 1 Hosting’s portfolio includes Managed Hosting,
Dedicated Servers , Colocation and Cloud
Services. Founded in 1999, the company is headquartered in
Vancouver, Canada, with European operations headquartered
in Southampton, UK. PEER 1 Hosting shares are traded
on the TSX under the symbol PIX.www.peer1.com or www.peer1hosting.co.uk.
