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2. Set Apart from Other Service Providers
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4. What is Magento?
• CMS with an e-commerce emphasis
– Content Management System
• Out of the box it runs on the LAMP Stack:
– Linux
– Apache
– MySQL
– PHP
5. What is E-Commerce?
E-commerce, let’s break it down…
• E (suffix)(Slang) of or relating to technology or the internet.
• Commerce, mid 16th century: from French, or from Latin
commercium ‘trade, trading,’ from com- ‘together’ + mercium
(from merx, merc- ‘merchandise’).
6. Who Uses Magento?
More Than 240,000 Merchants, some names you
might recognize…
• Nike
• Easton
• Sierra Nevada
• Volcom
• Fiji Water
• Oneida
7. Why Do They Use Magento?
• Third-Party Integrations
• Performance
• Scalability
• User Experience
• Ease of Design
• Marketing and Conversion
• Multi-site capabilities
9. Versions of Magento
• Community
Magento Community Edition is the perfect solution if you're a
developer or tech-savvy merchant that wants to explore the
flexibility of the Magento eCommerce platform. You can
modify—and even contribute to—the core code and engage
with our passionate community for support and guidance.
• Enterprise
Magento Enterprise Edition is the high performance, scalable
eCommerce solution for fast-growing and large businesses.
It has the enterprise-class features and the flexibility you need
to create an eCommerce solution tailored to your unique
needs. And it helps you drive more traffic to your store,
convert browsers into buyers, and boost online revenue.
10. Magento & Hostway
• Silver Hosting Partner
• Systems Integrator Partners
• Innovative DB solutions
• Optimized image
11. Solutions Integrator Partners
Magento partners who specialize in e-commerce,
site design and development.
Get the applications and services that extend your
store so you can attract more customers, increase
sales, and improve profitability.
13. Our Friends at Rand Marketing
Develop a plan focused on ROI
• Specialize in PHP-based websites
Magento & WordPress
• SEO / Google Adwords / Pay-Per-Click
• Social Media Marketing
• Logo / Graphic Design
14. Our Friends at Clustrix
ClustrixDB is the first enterprise database Magento
has recognized as a MySQL alternative for its
customers.
• Easy Migration
• Easy Scaling of DataBase Capacity
Don’t pay for what you’re not using
15. Something on the Light Side
• How many SEO experts does it take to change a
light bulb, lightbulb, light, bulb, lamp, lighting,
switch?
Q:What is pirate’s favorite piece f marketing
content?
A: A webinarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
16. What Matters to E-Commerce
Customers?
• Time to First Byte
• Render Start
• Load Time
17. Hostway’s Optimized Magento Image
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6
• Apache 2.2.15 (mpm_prefork)
• MySQL 5.5.44
• PHP 5.4.41 using Mod_PHP
• pecl-zendopcache 7.0.5
• Redis 3.0.1 w/ Cm_RedisSession &
Cm_Cache_Backend_Redis
• Varnish 2.1.5
18. Spotlight: Varnish
Varnish is the reverse caching proxy that sits in
front of the Magento store.
• Caches static content to avoid repeated disk
reads, speeding up performance
• Can act as a load-balancer in a multi-server
environment
19. Spotlight: MySQL
(Can be replaced with Clustrix or similar)
• We tune down MyISAM memory usage and
allocate more to InnoDB.
• We increase the InnoDB buffer pool size for
faster response times.
• Also improved file storage and logging to
improve transaction storage I/O.
20. Spotlight: Redis
A single process utilized by three Magento
processes: The fast back-end, the slow back-end
and session storage.
• Memcached / Redis
• Scaling with Redis
22. Next Steps
• Reach out to my colleague Ken Carter or
myself to discuss what we can do to for you!
OR
• Contact our Hosts Rand Marketing to get in
touch with us.
23. Interested In Learning More?
Contact us today for further information!
Call us at 888-707-RAND or email us at
info@randmarketing.com
Hinweis der Redaktion
Originated as a PaaS (shared) moved into IaaS (dedicated hosting) Combining the two, ITaaS
Content management system and why to use it,
Built in content updating via web portal
Greatly reduces need for HTMl knowledge
Want a redesign? Themes are WAY easier than recoding a traditional website
Cool new features on your competitors website getting you down?? Add a plugin!
A good CMS will include tools for SEO, Mobile enhancements, and social media that are essential to managing your overall marketing
So E-commerce is using technology and the internet to bring together people and merchandise using technology and the internet, basically an online storefront, but if you’re here, you probably knew that already!
Some of the world’s largest corporations have chosen Magento as the base to their online stores
Third party integrations, tons of plugins in the store, huge ecosystem to pull from. Perform, magento and the underlying Linux OS can be tuned in many ways to give you the most performance out of your hardware and IT spend. Scalability, Magento is pretty straightofrward to scale out either by adding additional web heads, or additional DB resources, especially with ourpartner clusterix. Store owners are able to get very granular with controlling the user experience including load times. Ease of Design changes, as a CMS you can make changes via a simple admin, web portal. Mangeto was built from the ground up to help you execute your marketing strategies and drive higher conversion rates. From an internal site vs an external site to A/B marketing, to international site versions, Magento is geared towards enabling you to use one back end to power many front end web stores.
In order to achieve the effects that make Magento so attractive to Ecommerce users they have a plugin library that allows the community to make available their innovations and additions to the base magento software.
Hostway is a Magento Hosting Silver Partner. We have worked with them to ensure that we are capable and setup to host Magento solutions from a small store running community edition on a Virtual Machine with a few hundred SKUs to Massive stores that serve order fulfillment for both internal and external customers running on the Magento Enterprise edition and a whole array of dedicated servers tuned to work together seamlessly to support the marketing strategy of an enterprise organization. To accomplish this we have developed relationships with Systems integrators like Rand Marketing that can handle the heavy lifting on the design and coding side of things while we provide the rock solid infrastructure to run it all. We have also partired up with teams that can provide innovative DB solutions spread over multiple hosts Physical or Virtual to scale the DB out in real time with out maintenance windows. Hostway has developed customized magento images for an all in one host as well as tuned images to facilitate the spliting out of the cacheing, db, and web serving tiers of the magento deployment.
– Automated Sales Tax Compliance– Simplified Payment Integration– Point of Sales Business Management Tools– Optimizing Digital Marketing, SEO– On Demand Scalable Database
Currently this, we are always working to improve the image as the community innovates and shares their success stories
With the time to first byte, you measure the amount of time required for the servers to react to the request of a browser to send data. With the render start, you measure the amount of time necessary for the first page element to be displayed on the browser. Load time means the total amount of time required to load all elements of the page. Amazon's calculated that a page load slowdown of just one second could cost it $1.6 billion in sales each year. Google has calculated that by slowing its search results by just four tenths of a second they could lose 8 million searches per day—meaning they'd serve up many millions fewer online adverts.
Currently this, we are always working to improve the image as the community innovates and shares their success stories
You could imagine caching as the food on a buffet line, if there weren’t large containers of food cached there, the staff would have to run back to the kitchen every time a customer served a plate of mashed potatoes! Much like this buffet line, Varnish can cache a lot of the information that the Database provides to the webservers to generate the pages that visitors are trying to view.
MySQL is the database that holds all the information on the SKUs in your store, the pictures that represent them on your website, and all of the other things that are used to generate the pages. We tune MySQL to be prepared for the types of data and the way magento tells apache to ask for it.
Redis does support tags out of the box. By using Redis you won’t need the file-cache anymore. After switching to Redis as cache-backend, you can clean up your /var/cache directory and you will notice it stays empty! All cache data is now being served from memory.