Magento Hosting – Web App Overview

Magento is a leading innovative e-Commerce platform with robust, flexible merchant tools; and integration capability with Amazon, eBay, and Rakuten

The platform comes in two variants: Magento Open Source (formerly Community Edition) and Magento Commerce for enterprise-level businesses with standby web developers.

It has object-oriented programming and model–view–controller architecture with front-end code using the JavaScript.

The Magento marketplace boasts a strong portfolio of extensions, themes, modules, and technology & solution partners.

Who uses Magento?

Due to Magento’s vanguard retail management system, merchants running their online stores on this software are diverse and (mostly) top-level retailers, brands, and branded manufacturers.

Features

• Flexible and Open Source Software
• An Army of Innovators
• The Most Customizable eCommerce Platform
• Expert Implementation Partners
• Boost Online Selling, Shrink Costs
• Industry-Leading Cloud Solutions
• Largest commerce marketplace for extensions
• Supported by a vast global network of solution & technology partners and by a highly active global community of more than 150,000 developers
• Backed by Permira, a global investment firm

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Magento up-close

Magento is currently running v2.2.

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Websites using Magento

There are 237,900+ live websites that are using Magento, and 5,900+ have Australian website domains. (source: BuiltWith.com)

Here are some Magento-built online stores in the Asia Pacific:

• Canon Australia (store.canon.com.au)
• API – Australian Pharmaceutical Industries Limited (api.net.au)
• Nestle’s NCare (ncare.net.au)
• Kennards Hire (kennards.com.au)
• RAG – Retail Apparel Group (retailapparelgroup.com)

Hosting Requirements

• Linux (Linux x86-64) distributions such as RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), CentOS, Ubuntu, Debian, and so on
• Upgrading the Magento applications and extensions can require up to 2GB of RAM. If a system is less than 2GB of RAM, create a swap file
• Composer is required for developers who wish to contribute to the Magento 2 codebase or anyone who wishes to develop Magento extensions
• Apache 2.2 or 2.4
  • In addition, the apache mod_rewrite module must be enabled. mod_rewrite enables the server to perform URL rewriting. For more information, see Apache documentation.
• nginx 1.8 (or latest mainline version)
• MySQL 5.6
  • Magento application version 2.1.2 and later are compatible with MySQL 5.7.
  • MariaDB and Percona are compatible with Magento
• PHP
•  PHP required extensions:
  • bc-math(Magento Commerce only)
  • curl
  • gd, ImageMagick 6.3.7(or later) or both
  • intl
  • mbstring
  • mcrypt
  • hash
  • openssl
  • PDO/MySQL
  • SimpleXML
  • soap
  • xml
  • xsl
  • zip
  • PHP7 only: json, iconv
• PHP configuration settings, such as  memory_limit, is recommended to avoid common problems when using Magento. For more information, see Required PHP settings.
• Verify if PHP OPcache is enabled for performance reasons
• A valid security certificate is required for HTTPS.
• Self-signed SSL certificates are not supported.
• Transport Layer Security (TLS) requirement: PayPal and repo.magento.com  both require TLS 1.1 or later
• Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) or an SMTP server
• RabbitMQ will be used to publish messages to queue and to define the consumers that receive the messages asynchronously.

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Getting started with Magento

Are you eyeing this e-Commerce engine? Install Magento on Hosting Cloud via the One Click Application Installer.

You can also download the app at Magento’s official website. Use the installation tutorial as your guide.