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Definition
What is Magento hosting?
Magento hosting is a server environment tailored to Magento's specific needs: PHP with ample memory, a MySQL database, OpenSearch for search functionality, Redis for sessions, and Varnish as a page cache. A standard web hosting plan lacks these components or shares them with hundreds of other sites.
European hosting means that your servers and backups are located within the EU. Your Dutch visitors get fast loading times, and your customers' data remains protected under the GDPR. With us, hosting is provided by CoreBox, the hosting company within our group.
Hosting scan
How fast does your server respond now?
Enter the address of your webshop. Using Google PageSpeed, we measure how quickly your server sends the first byte and what real visitors experienced over the past 28 days. You'll see the results immediately, without having to leave any details.
What you get
What Magento hosting needs to be capable of.
Cached pages
Varnish stores frequently visited pages ready-made. Your server only computes what is genuinely new, such as the shopping cart and checkout. This keeps it running smoothly even when it gets busy.
Scale up before the peak
Black Friday, a major newsletter, or a TV campaign: let us know, and we'll arrange extra capacity in advance. After the peak, everything goes back to normal.
Someone watching along
Monitoring keeps an eye on speed and errors. If something goes wrong, an engineer who knows your webshop is on hand to help. No helpdesk forwarding a ticket to another company.
Backups you can restore
We create daily backups and store a copy in a different location. If something goes wrong after an update or an import, we will restore your shop to the moment of your choice.
Updates and security
We keep Magento patches, PHP versions, and server software up to date. A firewall blocks bots and attacks before they burden your store.
One team for code and server
With a separate hosting provider, parties often point fingers at each other: is it an issue with the server or the code? With us, the same team builds your webshop, your integrations, and your hosting. A single point of contact.
Background
Why European servers matter.
Distance takes time. A request from Amsterdam to a server in Amsterdam or Frankfurt returns in just a few milliseconds. A round trip to the US East Coast quickly takes 80 milliseconds. A Magento page makes dozens of requests, so that adds up—especially for anything not served from a CDN.
Your webshop processes names, addresses, and orders. If that data stays within the EU, you won't need to arrange for data transfers to a country outside the EU for your hosting. That saves you from having to make extra arrangements in your data processing agreement and avoids questions from business customers with their own privacy requirements.
If your servers are with an American cloud provider, the US government can request data via the Cloud Act, even if the servers are located in Europe. With a European hosting provider that does not have an American parent company, this does not apply to the servers themselves. If you also use American services, such as a CDN or email service, be sure to check what happens to your data on a service-by-service basis.
Comparison
Default or configured for Magento?
Both keep your webshop online. You see the difference on a busy day, during an outage, and during an update.
Server
Shared with other sites, general settings
Configured for Magento: PHP, OpenSearch, Redis, and Varnish
Peak day
Fixed limit; timeouts during busy periods
Scaled up in advance according to your schedule
In the event of a malfunction
Ticket with the host, pointing to your agency
An engineer who knows your code and server
Backups
Often arrange it yourself and put it back yourself
Daily, with an offsite copy; we restore
Updates
Server yes, Magento and PHP version themselves
Magento patches, PHP, and server kept up to date
Location
Not always clear, sometimes outside the EU
Servers and backups within the EU
Matches with
A small shop without peaks or couplings
Growing B2C and B2B stores with integrations
Method
Here's how we migrate your shop without downtime.
A migration affects your webshop, your integrations, and your DNS. We test everything on the new server before a single visitor is switched over.
Frequently Asked Questions
Questions about Magento hosting.
Is your question not listed? In a 30-minute consultation, you'll get an honest answer from a developer who builds and hosts Magento webshops.
What is Magento hosting?
Hosting tailored for Magento: PHP with plenty of memory, a MySQL database, OpenSearch for search, Redis for sessions, and Varnish as a page cache. A standard web hosting package lacks these components or shares them with many other sites.
Why choose European hosting for an online store?
Your Dutch and European visitors will enjoy fast loading times, and your customers' data stays within the EU under the GDPR. This means you don't need to arrange for data transfers to a country outside the EU for hosting.
What is a good server response time (TTFB)?
Google considers a time to first byte under 0.8 seconds to be good, and over 1.8 seconds poor. With the hosting scan on this page, you can measure the TTFB of your own webshop, including what real visitors experienced over the past 28 days.
Can my hosting handle Black Friday?
That depends on your capacity and your cache. On a shared plan, the server fills up during a spike and orders get cut off. Let us know your peaks in advance, so we can scale up in time and Varnish can absorb most of the traffic.
How do you migrate a Magento webshop without downtime?
We set up the new server, transfer a copy of your shop, and test the checkout and your integrations. After that, we transfer the final data during a quiet moment and switch over the DNS.
Can I keep my current host?
Yes. We also build and maintain webshops hosted elsewhere. The advantage of hosting with us is that the code, server, and integrations are managed by a single team, so no one has to point fingers when an issue arises.
Does this also work for Hyvä and B2B webshops?
Yes. The environment is configured for Magento with Hyvä and for B2B stores with customer-specific pricing and integrations with your ERP or PIM.
How much does Magento hosting cost?
That depends on your traffic, your peak loads, and the number of shops. You can find the packages on the CoreBox hosting page. In a 30-minute call, we will calculate the exact costs for your shop.