Magento VPS
Magento VPS (Virtual Private Server) - Overview
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Magento runs in a OpenVZ virtual private server environment. Each customer has their own instance of linux (Debian, Ubuntu, CenOS or Fedora) and mysql with dedicated memory. CPU is reserved but burst permitted. The hosting environment is optimised for Magento based on Varien's recommendations. Customers have no limited access to administer Magento including root permissions.
Pricing for 3 months contract:
Pricing for 1 months contract:
Service Includes
- magento installation in optimised environment
- magento connect
- access to phpmyadmin mysql control panel for viewing databases
- ftp access (to magento directories for upload of images, content etc)
- magento web administrator access
- smtp server + AV
- 24/7 monitoring - Zabbix - check page is served with correct response
- nightly backup image - retention of most recent nightly and one weekly - mountable access
- firewalling - access restricted to essential ports only as option
- server lock-down - only essential services and packages installed
- managed updates of Linux (Debian, CentOS), apache, mysql, php, awstats and smtp server
- awstats traffic analysis
- Free for all customers PIWIK - real time web analytics software program.
- dedicated single IP, additional IPs available free for SSL certificates
- Full root SSH Shell access
- ISPconfig 3
Services On Request (no charge)
- magento installation or version upgrade
- ISPConfig (hosting solution) installation or upgrade
- System upgrade and protection
- Backup and restore
- SSH Shell access
- SSL certificate installation (1 yr basic certificate £180 including installation and 1 IP address)
Optimisation
- MySQL optimised for Magento and available memory
- PHP XCache installed
- Magento's temporary file directory placed on an in-memory filesystem
Restrictions
- php5 only
- if the VPS or Magento slows or fails due to it being overloaded for lack of memory then the customer will need to upgrade to a plan with higher memory.
- support is limited to the hosted environment, not Magento code. Customers requiring support for Magento code will have to obtain community support from Magento discussion boards or purchase a support contract from Magento's authors Varien.
- Magento development and design services are not included - but we offer these services so please send us the quote.
Host Server Specifications
- HP Proliant server
- 1 x 2Ghz Xeon E5335 Quad Core Processors (4 x 2GHz cores in total)
- 8 GB DDR2 PC2-5300 ECC Fully Buffered memory
- RAID-1 disk array
- OpenVZ