Magento Hosting
While Magento comes with a ton of prebuilt eCommerce features, it is a well known fact that Magento is a resource hog when it comes to the hosting environment needed to run the application at optimum performance. Everyone who uses Magento CE can host their website at their preferred host. Before 2014 Magento would offer hosting under the EE annual license fee. They don’t do that anymore and when using Magento EE you’ll need at the very least a dedicated server.
Hosting is a cost that many people do not take into consideration when putting together a budget. Finding the right Magento hosting company is then paramount to your project’s long term success. Usually, our customers pay around $150 for shared Magento hosting and up to $4500 for multiple dedicated servers or cluster hosting environments.
There are a number of companies in the market that claim to specialize in Magento hosting. We have worked with most of them at one time or another.
Some questions you need to ask your self when choosing a Magento hosting company are:
– Will you need shared hosting, dedicated or multi-server environment?
– Where is your target market located Geographically?
– How many unique visits / day do you expect?
– How many concurrent Magento customers do you expect?
– How large will your catalog be (SKU count)?
– Will you be using SOLR search within Magento?
– Will you be using the Magento Payment Bridge?
– Will you be using a service to monitor your websites performance (e.g Pingdom, New Relics)?
– Will you need a content delivery network (CDN)?
Basic Magento Website Cost: $20,000.00- $42,000.00
This option is for companies who are moving from a hosted platform or starting up from scratch. There are two ways that you can get a basic Magento website started. The first is by choosing a prebuilt theme, which is cheaper but some time limiting as to how much customization can be done on the theme. We will not get into details here because this can be its own article. The second option is converting a PSD design into a Magento store which doesn’t limit you on how your website should look and functionality wise. Nonetheless, both options require a good deal of time to set up, configure, customize and test. Hence the above cost.
– Under 6000 SKU’s
– Install the Latest Community Magento Edition
– Integrate/Install a chosen Theme into the latest stable version of Magento
– Simple Design Implementation
– Set up Transactional Emails with Logo
– Inventory System or POS Integration
– Integrate Payment Processor such as Authorize.net and alternative payment methods from PayPal, Amazon, Google etc.
– SSL Set Up
– Product and Category Setup and Configuration
– No Integration with Back Office Systems
– Testing
– Basic Shipping & Tax Configuration Set Up
– Internal quality assurance (QA) to ensure cross-browser compatibility and functioning of all features
Custom Magento Website Cost: $42,000.00 – $100,000.00 And Up
This option is for bigger, established retailers who do most of their business online and are either moving from a different eCommerce platform or are upgrading their existing Magento websites. It provides a complete solution to online selling and with a business continuity plan in place for growth.
– More than 6000 SKU’s
– SEO Advanced Package
– SEO Starter Package
– Inventory System or POS Integration
– Multilingual Store Front
– Advanced 301 Redirects
– Custom Home Page Design, Check Out Page, Product Landing Page Etc
– Custom Banner/Graphics
– Different Pricing for Wholesale, Partners, and Retail Customers
– One Page Checkout
– Address Validation at Checkout
– Advanced Reviews
– Auto-Complete Search
– Gift Registry
– WordPress Blog Integration
– Social Media Sharing Option
– Facebook Login
– Connection With Back office Accounting Systems, Sales Force, Rewards Program, and Other Affiliate Marketing Systems
– Testing/ QA
– Code Documentation
– Warranty and Support
– Data Migration
– Advanced Shipping Configuration
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