Magento, Optimized For You

We've put a lot of effort into determining how to get the most speed, stability and security out of Magento. We're confident our Secure Isolated Platforms are the fastest Magento hosting plans available. Adding our optional Content Delivery Network will speed things up even more.

Optimization Details

Each SIP runs on a combination of heavily optimized software and top of the line hardware, all hosted in our secure, modern Data Center. Listed below are some of the extensive optimizations we've made to ensure that the SIP plans remain the premiere Magento hosting platform.

Hardware

  • Dell R410 Server
  • Dual Intel quad-core server with Intel 5600 Series Westmere processors
  • 256KB L2 cache per core
  • 12MB L3 Cache per CPU
  • 1066Mhz front side bus
  • Up to 24GB DDR2-FBDIMM 667Mhz memory
  • 15K SAS Hard Drives in RAID 10 configuration
  • 15,000RPM Spindle speed
  • Battery-backed hardware SAS Raid controller with 256MB write Cache
  • RAID 10 Configuration

15K SAS Hard Drives in RAID 10 configuration provides zero read/write contention between drives and tagged command queuing for highest performance over traditional SCSI or SATA drives. RAID 10 for fastest read/write performance. RAID 10 is a stripe of mirrors offering full data redundancy without the need of costly parity calculation.

15,000RPM Spindle speed provides fastest read/write access and data transfer at 3.0Gbit/s per drive to the SAS controller.

MySQL Performance Tuning

  • Extreme MySQL performance as the database runs on a 15K SAS disk RAID 10 filesystem
  • MySQL my.cnf variable tuning specifically for Magento innoDB storage engine databases
  • The MySQL Query Cache is enabled and optimized for Magento

Security Enhancements

  • All unnecessary system services have been disabled. This server is running Magento and has been optimized in every way for Magento
  • All critical applications and libraries including the system Kernel are kept up to date with nightly YUM updates.
  • All sites run in a secure CHROOT environment for an additional layer of security
  • Custom configuration of latest stable PHP v5 built specifically for running Magento
  • APF (Advanced Policy Firewall) has been installed and configured for maximum security and packet throughput performance and reliability. The APF rules applied are extensive to provide system security and a PCI compliant hosting environment.
  • All SIP servers are protected by Juniper Netscreen hardware firewalls for an additional layer of security.

Operating System-level Tuning

  • Frequently accessed file systems such as /tmp, /var, and /home are mounted with the noatime attribute to increase performance
  • System sysctl kernel parameters have been optimized for greatest network performance and prevention of source-routed, spoofed, and redirected packets
  • System Integrity Monitor (SIM) watches all critical system services

Web Server Optimization

  • PHP Realpath cache settings are increased
  • PHP open_basedir is disabled for increased php performance
  • LiteSpeed high performance web server software is used on SIP-200 and higher plans
  • KeepAlives are enabled
  • Gzip output compression is enabled
  • eAccelerator PHP accelerator, optimizer, and dynamic content cache is enabled and optimized for Magento on SIP-100, SIP-200, and SIP-300 plans. SIP-400 Plans and SIP clusters utilize APC.
  • Memcached distributed memory caching system is setup in a distributed failover environment, replacing the Magento /var/cache filesystem

Network Optimization

  • Fully burstable 1000BaseT uplink
  • BGP Version 3 redundant network serviced through 4 separate carriers
  • Our network consists of enterprise level Cisco Catalyst 6500 series equipment for both our core and distribution

Backup Strategy

  • Redundant secure backup systems
  • Continuous data protection. We backup your site files using R1soft's CDP Backup software. Backup copies are kept in two locations, one on your server and the second on a remote backup server
  • MySQL database data backed up nightly for all plans
  • Backed-up data is retained for up to thirty days