Why ProContractors are capable of implementing a fast, reliable and high available magento hosting infrastucture. Is because we keep optimizing our resources for better understanding on how Magento ecommerce works. And especially we seek knowledge in each part of the entire chain of the performance infrastructure. - Try to identify and eliminate the weakest link of the applications that provide such a great ecommerce solution as Magento.

What are the key aspects of the fast magento site ?

1. CPU Cores
2. Memory
3. Fast disc drives

That is possible to get these 3 options, CPU, Memory and disc drives in dedicated servers all over the website and webshop hosting industry. It is indeed also possible to virtualize these elements in just as infinte number of ways.

Virtualization of the hosting environment that magento needs to placed in is a very secure way to experience a slow magento.

What the real key to a succesful fast performance magento are truely and deeply understand the entire application stack under magento. Exactly which parts of which server applications that can be used in the absolutely correct way. To really improve magento performance this is where the key lays. A lot of these settings has been discussed in the Magento Performance Whitepaper. This magento performance white paper is primary focused an Magento Enterprise. But a lot of the settings and observations indeed also apply for the magento community edition.

ProContractors implements the Magento Shared Hosting environment using:

• Distributed Load Balancer
• Apache 2.2.x/ mod_php
• Distributed Memcached
• MySQL 5.x
• php 5.1.x  / eaccelerator
• Plesk Control Panel
• CentOS

Some of the specifik fine tunings of the magento optimizations has been discussed in our other blog post on how to optimize magento performance.