Magento is one of the most widely recognized eCommerce platforms today. It provides the perfect solution for both beginners and tech-savvy web developers to build, maintain, and scale their online merchant businesses. Thanks to its long and dynamic history of development, large proactive community, and thousands of active websites, Magento combines a full set of features and functionality to support online stores of any size.
Because of its excellence as an eCommerce platform, we at FastComet are happy to confirm our hosting services fully support Magento, including the advanced Magento 2.4 versions. In this post we will discuss the advantages of Magento and how our services can enhance your Magento hosting experience.
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Reasons to Choose Magento
As a terrific option for building your own online store from scratch, Magento is a very popular platform for eCommerce store development. It quickly gained popularity because it offers everything you need for an online business. From immense flexibility to adaptive scaling and enhanced SEO, Magento offers the tools and features any eCommerce store needs. All in one convenient package.
So much so that the platform's users contend it is now the most potent platform for creating online stores. An e-commerce store must be built from the ground up to guarantee flexibility, customizability and scalability. That allows for necessary features need to be developed and tested as well. However, Magento has all of that and more ready to go from the moment you install it. Here is a quick list of Magento's strongest benefits.
- High Level of Flexibility - At some point you might decide to change the course of your business or require different features than what your store is currently using. Due to its flexibility, Magento will give you the necessary room for modification. It is simple to alter and change. With some other platforms, you might have to totally redesign your website or create a new website from scratch. Your Magento-based website, on the other hand, only needs to be tweaked;
- Free - The fact that the open-source version of the software is entirely free is another significant benefit of building your website with Magento platform. That version is packed with all the awesome features and tools you will need to start building your website;
- Promotes SEO - Magento SEO is a feature that promotes search engine optimization by managing duplicate landing pages, indexing, page traffic, and content. Search engine bots and crawlers will have an easier time accessing and indexing Magento-based websites for valuable information. That in turn will help your website appear higher in search results. The feature is an excellent starting point, a foundation, for you to build up your SEO strategy;
- Easy to Use - Magento is relatively simple to use for website creators and also saves developers a substantial amount of time. Users can change or modify a page's contents with ease or build wholly new ones with ease. With Magento, page linking and navigation are also quite simple. Additionally, because Magento is written in PHP, adding new code to create more efficient solutions is a breeze;
- Easy Management of Multiple Stores - Managing many stores from a single administrative panel was previously time-consuming and challenging. However, Magento makes that task quite the opposite. Users can manage multiple stores through a single intuitive control panel;
- Marketing Tools - Magento has a number of tools that can streamline marketing. It aids in the collection of versatile coupons and even encourages private sales and multi-tier pricing. Furthermore, there are numerous landing page tools available for use in marketing campaigns among the many other marketing features Magento has;
- Shared Knowledge - The Magento community is comprised of business owners, CEOs, developers, and others who are all intimately familiar with the platform. If you're just getting started, there's a wealth of information at your fingertips. There are people who share tips and tricks, as well as forums where you can troubleshoot issues or ask any questions;
- Carting and Checking out Made Easy - Magento-powered websites are typically compatible with a wide range of payment gateway options. Additioanlly, the shopping cart development tool is extremely user-friendly and offers a wide range of both creator and developer tools. That ensures your customers have a pleasant payment and check-out experience;
- Security - Security is one of Magento's primary concerns. It offers robust security features, including regular patches, two-factor authentication, and advanced encryption to protect against vulnerabilities. That ensures that not only your customers' information is secure, but that the website itself is also difficult to breach;
- Mobile-friendly - Mobile devices have overtaken the computer as the prefered method of accessing the Internet for some years now. Any website that is not mobile-friendly will struggle nowadays. That change brings many challenges to website developers but, fortunately, Magento has the capability to automatically optimize a website for mobile devices;
Those are just some of the outstanding features that Magento offers to creators and developers alike. It is a truly robust platform with many solid options and functionalities that will not only allow you to build a great eCommerce webesite, but will also elevate it high above the rest. Why not try it for your next eCommerce website and see what you have been missing out on?
Benefits of Using FastComet
If your Magento website is your passion, business, or just a personal hobby, we want you to succeed and grow. Our hosting platforms are optimized for Magento so you can stay focused on what is essential while we manage everything else for you. We pride ourselves not only on excellent customer and technical support but also on stable and robust hosting services, packed with stellar features and services. To that extent, we have ensured that all versions of Magento can function on our services.
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Magento 2.4 has additional requirements (Elasticsearch and Redis), which are typically not present on many other hosts. However, all our services, are fully capable of supporting them. Our Shared Hosting users can find them in the Cloud Apps section of the Marketplace. Alternatively, our VPS or Dedicated Server users can request their installation by contacting us.
Additionally, below you will find all of the systems and benefits we offer to our customers. They are aimed at boosting and securing your Magento website while maintaining optimal server uptime and stability.
- FastGuard Magento Security - Servers protected by FastGuard learn from each attack and inform each other about malicious activities. The result is a global defense network that counteracts botnet attacks and exploits with a shield of protection for all Magento websites while also improving performance;
- SSL Certificates - On the topic of security, a pillar of our hosting services, we offer free and premium SSL certificates to all our customers. It is our desire for your websites to be as secure as they can be. Just remember to ensure your domain is hosted on our servers before trying to issue the certificates;
- Let's Encrypt - The Let's Encrypt SSL certificates have been a staple of FastComet for many years. These certificates are widely recognized by all major browsers and devices, and offer robust encryption for your private data. Installing such a certificate is a breeze through AutoSSL, and you can read more about the Let's Encrypt Initiative itself in our tutorial on the topic;
- Comodo Positive SSL - In case you are looking for an even more secure SSL certificate, you can purchse the Comodo Positive SSL certificate for your domain (free for one year for our FastCloud Extra users). This certificate is even more advanced and validates not only the domain name, but the applicant as well; another layer of security. It also supports SNI (Server Name Indicator), meaning you no longer need a dedicated IP address on your account for it to work;
- Cloudflare Universal SSL - Last, but not least, if you are using Cloudflare to boost the performance and security of your website, do not forget to encrypt your connection to their servers with their Cloudflare Unviersal SSL. The certificate will ensure that all connections to and from Cloudflare's servers is encrypted end-to-end, leaving no space for malicious parties to interject. Check out our tutorial on the topic to learn more how the certificate works;
- Magento Optimization - FastCloud includes the RocketBooster Magento Optimization based on the LiteSpeed and LSPHP technology. This out-of-the-box feature will speed up your Magento-based websites for a better user experience;
- Support for Your Magento Website - Here at FastComet we value customer and technical support just as highly as providing a the best hosting services. Our always-human Magento experts are ready to assist you 24/7;
- Resource Monitoring - With our Observer Monitoring, you can reduce costs, remove performance bottlenecks, and maintain your hosting account's resource usage with ease. In case any issue arises, our expert Magento Support Team will proactively give you a call and help you resolve it;
- Free Domain Transfer - Quick and easy - no transfer fee. We will renew your domain for one year free of charge;
- FastComet SSD Only-Cloud - Up to 300% faster access to your files and databases compared to non-SSD hosting providers;
- Free Cloudflare CDN - Distribute your content around the world so it's closer to your visitors, ensuring that hosting location is no longer a factor;
- Powered by cPanel - The most popular and powerful web hosting control panel for easy point-and-click management of your hosting account;
- Daily Backups - Free daily off-site backups of your data to keep you safe. When others charge for this, we don't;
- Free Managed Migrations - Our migration experts provide fast and efficient managed transfers on all plans, including moving all your files, databases, and emails;
- 100% Satisfaction or Money Back Guarantee - 45 days money-back guarantee for Cloud Shared Hosting and 7 days for VPS/DS Servers;
To round off our dedication to our Magento hosting, we have a helpful step-by-step tutorial on Magento itself where you can read even more about this solid platform.
As you can see, Magento is a great choice, especially when combined with the FastComet hosting services. So, in case you're not already our client, you can be sure that choosing us will be one of the best decisions of your lifeIf you have any questions about our hosting packages, you can contact us at any time, any day of the week. We work 24/7 to ensure the success of all our clients’ projects.