Crucial Web Hosting Blog

Improving Magento Speed & Performance With MySQL Query Cache

Rick — Mon, 26 May 2008 02:59:50 +0000

Improving Magento performance is at the top of the list for most professional Magento developers. There’s no doubt that enhancing the speed at which Magento performs can only be good for business.

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Announcing Magento One-Click Installer

Kyle — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 23:22:20 +0000

Magento Containers now comes with a one-click installer for Magento. You can install Magento, with or without store sample data, in minutes by accessing your site’s control panel.

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Magento Containers Now Available

Kyle — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 07:54:38 +0000

We’re excited to announce Magento Containers, an industry first, highly optimized hosting environment built specifically for Magento. Now available for immediate purchase, Magento Containers comes in a Lite and Pro version to fit any budget.

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Magento Containers With Varien & Parallels

Rick — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 16:48:03 +0000

It is our pleasure to announce a collaborative partnership with Varien, the developers of Magento, a professional Open Source ecommerce solution.

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Split-Shared Technical Analysis

Rick — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 01:13:08 +0000

Split-Shared web hosting is a unique, technologically advanced method of delivering web-based services such as web sites, email, etc. The technology behind Split-Shared hosting is what sets it apart from traditional hosting services.

Using a combination of technologies including virtualization, server clusters, iSCSI SAN network storage, portable IP address space, proprietary resource monitoring and management, Split-Shared web hosting breaks the mold that was once "shared" hosting.

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Contest Code For Feed Subscribers

Kyle — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 18:48:40 +0000

Just a short update post for anyone who subscribed to our blog’s RSS feed because of the contest.

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Magento Hosting

Kyle — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 11:20:57 +0000

I’ve been reading a lot of posts on the Magento forum about installation troubles, specifically with mod_rewrite (htaccess) and the MySQLi and PDO_MySQL extensions for PHP. As mentioned in our Magento installation guide, Crucial’s Split-Shared hosting is fully compatible with Magento.

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Magento Commerce Install Guide

Kyle — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 11:20:32 +0000

This is a step-by-step tutorial on installing Magento Commerce on one of our Split-Shared hosting accounts. I was recently introduced to Magento in a pre-sales chat. Up until that chat, I had never heard about it, but decided to check it out.

I’ve personally used and recommended osCommerce whenever someone asked about a good shopping cart program, but I have to admit, this is by far the best open source application out there.

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Cheap Web Hosting Doesn’t Have To Be Bad Hosting

Rick — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 23:27:44 +0000

You see a lot of "you get what you pay for" at various forums that discuss cheap web hosting. The web hosting industry has in fact grown cheaper over the years as the prices of hardware like memory and drive space have come down. However, that does not necessarily equate to "cheap web hosting."
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11-3-07 Brief Outages on vhost-13

Rick — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 16:46:32 +0000

At approximately 10:15am November 3rd one of the Crucial web servers came under a massive coordinated DDOS (Distributed Denial of Service Attack). The attack came in three massive bursts which were effective in denying httpd service to clients of that host for very brief periods of less than 30 minutes each.

The attack came in a three separate, independent bursts which are illustrated below.

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