Give Magento the machine it was designed for

It will. Every plan is a full-root KVM VPS, so none of the usual shared-hosting fences apply and you build Magento exactly as its own documentation lays out. That begins with choosing your PHP 8.x version and enabling the extensions Magento leans on — bcmath, ctype, gd, intl and soap among them — then pulling the codebase in through Composer instead of a restricted file manager. Magento Open Source and Adobe Commerce both run here, and you are free to attach OpenSearch or Elasticsearch and set your own cron timings for indexing and order processing. Root is yours, so upgrading PHP, patching the platform or adding new tooling is your decision and nobody else's; nothing is locked. Our side of the arrangement is the network, the hardware and the DDoS defences, which leaves the Magento environment entirely in your hands to shape as the project requires.

Catalogue size is a question of memory and search capacity far more than disk space. A few hundred straightforward products sit comfortably on an entry-level tier, but once you are handling thousands of SKUs with configurable options, layered navigation and faceted filtering, both the database and the search engine start wanting genuine RAM. A sensible floor is around 4 GB with catalogue and caching both running, and more again if you reindex often or push large imports through. If the catalogue is already substantial, open on a mid-range tier and watch how reindexing and the admin panel behave under real load. Every plan uses all-NVMe storage with dedicated CPU and RAM, so product imagery and category filtering keep pace as the item count climbs. Moving up later takes a couple of clicks and leaves files, database and configuration exactly as they stand, which makes resizing an easy call rather than a project.

We let Magento's caching work the way its architects intended instead of capping it. With root on your own VPS, you can put Varnish in front for full-page caching, hand sessions and the object cache to Redis, and keep compiled PHP warm in OPcache — so a cached storefront or category page comes back in milliseconds rather than being rebuilt on request. Beneath that, all-NVMe storage with dedicated CPU and RAM means indexing runs, image processing and database lookups never queue behind a slow disk or another tenant's workload. You can also tune the PHP-FPM pool, schedule cron reindexing at sensible hours and move the search engine onto its own process. Because these resources belong to you alone, the numbers you measure on a quiet afternoon are the numbers you get on your busiest trading day — not a laboratory figure that collapses once real shoppers show up.

Your Magento install has the server to itself. No other customer's account shares it, which removes an entire family of cross-account risk before you configure anything. Free SSL reissues automatically on current TLS standards, encrypting storefront and checkout, and network-level DDoS defences help keep the shop trading while it is under attack. Root access lets you lock down the admin area, restrict who can reach SSH, keep PHP and the platform patched, and apply the file permissions Magento recommends. Full PCI compliance is shared work: most stores pair Magento with a gateway that tokenises card numbers so raw card data never reaches the server, which keeps you inside the simpler SAQ A or A-EP band. We supply the isolated, encrypted foundation; your gateway, your extensions and your internal habits handle the remainder. Our team stays available for anything infrastructure or network related.

Yes. Once you have signed up, raise a ticket with access details for your present host and our team moves the whole store — code, database, media library and any custom configuration. A Magento migration has more moving parts than most, so we make sure the caching setup, the cron jobs and the search index all arrive too, not simply the raw files. We usually stage everything on the new server first, which lets you browse the storefront, run a test purchase and satisfy yourself before anything is switched live. Once you are happy, repoint DNS at the new VPS and enable free SSL; because the copy is already sitting there ready, shoppers notice little or no interruption. Existing orders, customer records and product data all cross intact. If unusual extensions are in play, flag them early so we can plan the move around them properly.

It is yours to run — self-managed by design, and that is precisely what makes root access, custom PHP builds and a tailored caching stack possible at this price. Everything above the operating system belongs to you: the Magento install, its extensions, cron scheduling, caching configuration and updates are all yours to set as the project needs. What falls to us is the layer underneath — physical hardware, KVM virtualisation, tier-3 datacentre networking and DDoS defences — so the parts you cannot see stay looked after. Our support team is reachable 24/7 for infrastructure, provisioning and network questions, and can help with resizing a plan or tracking down a connectivity problem. If hands-on Magento administration is not work you want, plenty of merchants bring in a developer or agency for the application side while we keep the VPS underneath quick, online and secure at every hour.