Magento Optimized Managed Hosting offering is designed to improve the performance and reliability of Magento-based storefronts
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting provider PEER 1 Hosting (www.peer1.com) announced on Tuesday it has partnered with retail ecommerce platform provider Magento (www.magentocommerce.com) to deliver a new optimized managed hosting solution to online retailers.
The Magento Optimized Managed Hosting offering is a turnkey infrastructure solution that’s designed to improve the performance and reliability of Magento-based storefronts so merchants can reliably deliver quality online shopping experiences to their customers.
The solution features infrastructure components specifically designed for the Magento platform and is delivered over PEER 1 Hosting’s 10GB FastFiber Network.
As part of the platform, Magento merchants using the bundle will also have access to PEER 1’s unlimited FirstCall Support, ensuring any issues are handled promptly by tier 2 level technicians.
“Online retailers know the experience at the shopping cart needs to be quick and seamless to encourage return shoppers,” said Fabio Banducci, president and CEO at PEER 1 Hosting. “Realizing this need, we’re working with Magento to make sure online shoppers are getting the best customer experience no matter where they are in the world. Furthermore, we want to provide a scalable, best of breed ecommerce platform that merchants can rely on to grow their business. That’s why we’re delivering this new optimized and scalable hosting solution.”
The Magento optimized managed hosting solution includes a range of features, including an optimized RHEL 5 and RHEL 6 (64 bit versions) operating System for peak performance, content accelerator servers Varnish and Nginx for fast content delivery with the least resource utilization, implementation of application servers Apache, PHP, and memcahe for the fastest application performance, and MySQL-based database servers created specifically for Magento to ensure peak access and delivery of data.
The solution also offers many fully managed optional components such as Relentless Intrusion Detection, global load balancing and a content delivery network that can be included to further customize a solution that is tailored to the needs of the merchant and its customers.
The Magento Optimized Managed Hosting offering from PEER 1 Hosting is now available on the PEER 1 Hosting website.
On September 15th, PEER 1 sponsored the first ever Canadian Magento eCommerce Forum in Toronto, which included a technical demonstration, case studies highlighting past success stories, as well as networking opportunities with staff from PEER 1, Magento, and Demac Media.
PEER 1 Hosting recently completed the Standards for Attestation Engagements 16 Type II and Canadian Standard on Assurance Engagements 3416 audits.
