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It covers the full path from decision to live environment: a sizing consultation based on your catalog, traffic and integrations, a written hosting recommendation, provisioning on cloud, VPS or dedicated infrastructure in your own account, installation of the complete Magento stack (Nginx, PHP-FPM, MySQL or MariaDB, Redis, Varnish, Elasticsearch or OpenSearch), CDN and caching configuration, a staging environment, automated off-server backups with a tested restore, SSL setup and a planned DNS go-live. Ongoing management afterwards is optional.

It depends on the store, which is exactly why generic "best Magento hosting" lists are unreliable. As a rule of thumb: a tuned VPS suits single stores with steady traffic, cloud infrastructure suits stores with campaign-driven or seasonal spikes because it can scale, and dedicated servers suit large catalogs with consistently high volume. Shared hosting is the one option we advise against, because Magento 2 requirements like Elasticsearch and Redis are rarely available there. We size your workload first and then recommend a type, in writing, with the reasoning.

No. You open the hosting account in your own name and pay the provider directly, so you always own the infrastructure. We charge only for the consulting and engineering work. That separation matters: it means our recommendation is not influenced by reseller margins or affiliate programs, and if the honest answer is a smaller plan than you expected, that is the answer you get.

In practice, no. Magento 2 expects Elasticsearch or OpenSearch for catalog search, benefits heavily from Redis and Varnish, and needs more PHP memory and processing headroom than shared plans provide. Even where a shared host technically allows an install, reindexing, imports and any real traffic quickly push it past what the plan can handle. A modest VPS with a properly configured stack is the realistic entry point for Magento 2.

A single-server environment with the full stack, staging, backups and SSL is typically ready in about a week from the sizing call: one to two days for sizing and the written recommendation, two to five days for the build, and one to two days for verification and go-live. Multi-server or autoscaled architectures take longer because load balancers and scaling rules are tested under load before the store depends on them.

It is a function of your catalog size and attribute complexity, order and traffic volume, how spiky that traffic is, how heavy your admin and import workloads are, and which integrations run against the store. We turn those numbers into concrete CPU, memory, storage and search requirements during the sizing consultation, and we state the assumptions so the recommendation can be challenged. Guessing capacity from a hosting plan name is how stores end up both slow and overpaying.

Yes, and it is the best time to do it. For a new build we size from your product count, expected launch traffic and growth plans, then stand up the environment with staging first, so development happens on infrastructure identical to production. The store then launches on hosting that fits, instead of going through the usual launch-slow-then-migrate cycle in its first year.

Yes. Hosting setup and store migration often go together: we build and verify the new environment, then move code, media and database across with a planned, near-zero-downtime cutover. The migration itself, including data syncs, freeze windows and rollback planning, is covered in depth by our Magento server configuration and migration service, and the two engagements are frequently combined into one project.

Yes. The hosting account is opened in your name, billing goes directly to you, and you hold owner-level access from day one. We work through our own keys, which you can revoke at any time, and every credential, configuration file and runbook is documented and handed over. If we part ways, you keep a fully documented environment, not a dependency.

That scenario is planned for before go-live, not after. Every setup includes automated backups stored outside the server, a written restore procedure, and a restore drill we run before the store carries real orders, so the recovery time is a number we have measured rather than a promise. If you keep us on for ongoing management, monitoring alerts us to most failure precursors, like disk or memory pressure, before they become outages.

Yes, and for small stores it arguably matters more, because there is no team on standby when a bad extension update takes production down. Staging gives you a safe copy of the store where upgrades, extensions and theme changes are tested first. It does not need to mirror production capacity, a small instance is fine, so the cost is minor compared to a single avoided outage on your busiest day.

Yes. Ongoing hosting management covers monitoring with real alerting, security patching, backup verification, cache and cron health checks, and an engineer who already knows your stack when something needs attention. It is optional: some clients hand the documented environment to their own team, others keep us on. Either way you get the full handover pack, so the choice stays reversible.