Nucleus is a leading managed cloud provider in Belgium. This presentation was given in May 2015 at the Belgento summit. It explains a set of criteria in selecting your magento hoster and some tips & tricks for your performant magento hosting.
2. Content
1. Who am I?
2. Who is Nucleus?
3. Magento cloud hosting: ingredients to success.
4. How do I select my Magento hosting provider?
5. What is important for a performant Magento hosting?
6. Q&A
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3. Who is David Geens?
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• 40 year, husband and father,
entrepreneur & Mormon
• Managing Partner Nucleus
• Board member ISPA
• Member registrar forum DNS Belgium
• Author “Het is Cloudy vandaag”
• IT engineer & manager
• Top 20 Datanews influencial IT’ers
4. Who is Nucleus?
• 15 years of experience with expertise in hosting solutions
• Independent hosting player
• Team of 19 specialised engineers
• Located in Antwerpen
• Operational via 4 datacenters: Antwerpen, Diegem, Nossegem
en Zaventem
• More than 2500 servers under own management
• Figures 2014: € 4 mil turnover & profitable
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5. What we do
“Uptime-as-a-Service”
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IT infrastructure
Guaranteed uptime
Management, advice,
follow up, security, …
As a Service
6. Some of our customer base
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7. Magento Cloud hosting: ingredients to success
• Good infrastructure:
• Network
• Equipment
• Good people
• Good architecture
• Good management
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• DevOps
• Life cycle management
• Load balancing
• Multidatacenter setup
• Information Management
25. Criterium 5: don’t get burned by solr
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26. Tips & tricks for performant Magento hosting
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• More cpu than average
• Higher memory_limit value in PHP (default = 64MB, Magento =
192MB)
• Scripts checking Magento version, automatic mail if out-of-date
• Output compression & gzip of all data (HTML + javascript +
images)
• Most recent PHP version
• PHP opcaching enablen
• Install Memcached for caching
• Install Varnish for anonymous visitor caching
• SSL with A-rating
• KeepAlive enablen on Apache webserver
• MySQL query caching enablen