Magento is a popular and feature-rich open-source e-commerce web application designed to make the experience of running a modern business painless. With development starting back in 2007, and a release in 2008, Magento has had many years to perfect its features and functionality. And since Magento has existed for over a decade now, it's clear that this platform is here to stay for the foreseeable future. With highly-customizable options, a plethora of tools, and lots of documentation thanks to the massive Magento community, Magento is the most popular choice of e-commerce platform for a reason.

The development for Magento started back in 2007 by its parent company, Varien. At this point, Magento was merely beta software, without a fleshed-out feature set. Over the next two years, customizability was the main focus for Magento's parent company. With this, the extremely customizable nature of Magento allowed it to grow in popularity, even past its main competitor, osCommerce.

As the years passed, Magento grew larger and larger. So much so, in fact, that Varien's name was changed to Magento in 2010 as it was more recognizable. eBay wanted to get a slice of the eCommerce pie, so they bought a 49% share of Magento the following year. However, once eBay split up, so did their share. This led to Magento becoming a fully-independent company, owned by the Permira private equity fund in 2015.

Since then, Magento has grown to become the most popular eCommerce platform, offering both a consumer-level and enterprise-level version of their eCommerce software platform. This large size led to Adobe's merging of Magento's Commerce Cloud with their own Experience Cloud in 2019. From a small beta to a billion-dollar company merged with Adobe, Magento has showed its true potential to the world.

Magento is fully customizable and ready to meet any user’s requirements, allowing them to create and launch a fully-functional online store in minutes. Magento is known as a ‘heavy’ eCommerce solution and if not set up properly, it can be slow.

We take all of the guesswork out of having your own Magento VPS. Our expert Linux system adminstrators can help get you up and running in mere minutes. On top of this, we offer something with all of our VPSes that we believe nobody else offers - full root access to your machine, without compromising on the support experience. That’s right - we not only let you have total control over everything that happens on your Managed Magento VPS, but we also take care of any problems that arise, even if they’re caused by a mistake.

We focus on providing the fastest and most reliable Managed Magento Hosting experience possible. This begins with our server hardware. Our servers utilize the latest-generation Intel Xeon processors and are paired with DDR4 RAM and Enterprise-grade NVMe SSD storage to provide the best possible performance for your Magento stack.

We then top this off with one of the most reliable backend systems in the hosting industry, thanks to several factors. These range from our redundant systems for power, cooling, and internet upstream providers in our St. Louis-based data center, to our 100% uptime guarantee. This all adds up to your Magento server being available every single time that you need it.

And should your server’s files disappear or a configuration break your setup, our free weekly backups can help you re-store your Magento VPS back to a functioning state in a short amount of time. We also offer daily backups as an option if having peace of mind for your server’s data is especially important to you.

Our technical support team is in the business of treating your Magento VPS with the care that it deserves. They will go in-depth with your server and can build your Magento web stack, install and configure the Varnish and Redis cache systems, set up Nginx SSL termination, as well as help you troubleshoot any server-related issues, configure your firewall, and much more. In short, our team will make sure that your Magento store works perfectly on your server, no matter what.

Our support is here to help you with your Magento hosting needs. We'll help you out by installing Magento, setting up any custom add-ons or plugins that you might have, set up backups, and lots more.

We're quite different from the competition's definition of "fully-managed" - we don't limit our support in ways that others do. Our Magento VPSes have root access, and while some providers also include root access, they'll stop providing their support services if you use root on your server. We on the other hand are in the business of helping you out - we'll let you use your root access for whatever you need, while also providing you with fully managed Magento  support.

We'll also support software outside of your Magento stack - we'll support your web server, database server, other services that you might have, and the operating system itself.

You also don't need a control panel to take advantage of our fully managed Magento support - we'll give you our support regardless of whether you use a control panel or not.

The typical features of our managed Magento VPS hosting include the following:

Our servers are built to serve users like you with a premium, high-quality Magento hosting experience that focuses on giving you convenience and transparency above all. You need a high-performance server that can handle the visitors and requests that are being made to your website. It comes down to three main factors: CPU, Storage, and Network. Our CPUs are the latest-generation Intel® Xeon® Gold processors. Their excellent performance lets your Magento server handle many requests simulataneously, process data from requests that are made, and run several services at once with ease.

Storage is make-or-break for a website's performance. A fast processor is useless if it's always waiting for data to be loaded from the slow storage. That's why we only pair our high-performance processors with the best enterprise-grade NVMe SSD storage on the market. With read and write speeds in excess of 3 Gigabytes per second, you'll see load times that simply aren't possible with a regular SSD, not to mention spinning hard drives. Storage is the largest bottleneck in a server, and we use the best hardware to give your Magento VPS the best performance.

Having a high-performance and redundant network setup is also key in serving many visitors reliably. With our redundant 10Gbe uplinks and excellent data center location, we're able to provide your Magento VPS with excellent throughput, all while U.S. visitors enjoy faster response times.

These factors combined make for what we believe is some of the best server hardware available at this price point.