Akeneo Hosting
- Fast and optimized
- User-friendly functions
- 24/7/365 direct support
Always optimal server configurations
Akeneo plays a central role in e-commerce, both in the B2B and B2C sectors. We know all about hosting PIM systems like Akeneo. What's in it for you?
Quick and easy to use
Whether Elasticsearch and PHP, NGINX or Apache - we guarantee you not only optimal settings, but also fast setup.
User-friendly and complete control
Akeneo PIM is specifically designed for ease of use while ensuring complete control over the quality of your product information.
Optimization of information processes
With Akeneo PIM's powerful and user-friendly features, you can optimize your product information processes, no matter how large your catalog is.
Are you looking for a solution for a PIM store?
As a hosting provider, we offer you the necessary infrastructure to operate PIM systems efficiently. With a PIM, you can manage all product data centrally, which significantly simplifies the entire process of creating, maintaining and publishing product information for your online store. This ensures consistent, high-quality product data across all sales channels and increases the efficiency of your e-commerce business at the same time.
Why our customers love maxcluster
Why our customers are enthusiastic about maxcluster maxcluster is not only one of the best employers, but also one of the leading managed hosting providers. Why? Our customers particularly appreciate:
Optimum Magento performance for your online store Maximum security precautions and hosting that is fully GDPR-compliant Reliable, 24/7 support from experienced Magento professionals.
Ready for immediate use at no extra cost
Our cluster hosting solutions include pre-installed and pre-configured software that you can use directly in your online store without any further customization. These include: Redis Server, Varnish Cache, MySQL, RabbitMQ and Elasticsearch.
Our hosting packages
Our hosting packages offer customized solutions for your individual requirements. Each package is geared towards specific functions, from cluster management to comprehensive security and support options. With our managed services, you can rely on maximum performance, reliability and scalability - perfectly optimized for high traffic and backed by our fast, 24/7 support. Choose the right package for your company:
Dev: The package for your dev and stage environments
Basic: Ideal for start-ups and experienced developers looking for a cost-effective solution.
Business: The optimal price-performance ratio, perfect for growing companies that need a stable and reliable infrastructure.
Enterprise: Maximum performance and service for companies with the highest demands on performance and security.
With these packages, you can concentrate fully on your core business while we take over the management of your hosting infrastructure reliably and professionally.
It couldn't be simpler - our onboarding process
Our onboarding process makes it as easy and smooth as possible for you to join us. This is how it works:
Free initial consultation: In a personal consultation, we clarify your individual requirements and goals together with our technical consultants.
Individual planning: We develop a customized plan based on your needs.
Technical setup: Our experts take care of the complete setup and configuration.
Training and support: We offer comprehensive training and are always available to answer your questions.
Regular check-ins: Our team is there for you around the clock, 365 days a year, to ensure that everything runs smoothly and your expectations are met.
See for yourself! With our structured, customer-oriented approach, we make your start with us as easy and pleasant as possible.
Product highlights
In order for your PIM system to work optimally, constant availability is essential. We guarantee you an annual average availability of 99.99%, which corresponds to a maximum downtime of just 52 minutes per year.
Optimal settings
- Use any number of server services (Redis, Elasticsearch, ...) for your Akeneo product information system at no extra cost
- Optimized, preconfigured caching by Redis
- E-commerce stack - developed for maximum performance and fast access to your product data
99.99% availability
- With a guaranteed availability of 99.99% on an annual average, this corresponds to a maximum downtime of just 52 minutes per year, meaning that your PIM system is available at all times.
- We continuously monitor services, server resources and the availability of your application, supported by proactive performance and scaling analyses.
- Our experienced first-level support from system administrators is available around the clock by telephone to provide rapid assistance.
Lightning-fast data access
- Double redundant 10 GBit NVMe storage ensures fast database queries and minimizes the execution times of your PIM system.
- Accelerated read operations through direct RAM cache optimize the processing speed.
- Our 10 GBit network for internal data transfer further increases performance and enables smooth management of your data.
Akeneo
Our Akeneo developers support you
Fast access to product and customer information is essential when using a PIM system such as Akeneo. Only if the product information management data is available reliably and instantly can such a system play to its strengths.
We guarantee dynamic scalability, maximum performance and maximum reliability so that your application can always perform at its best.
- Personal first-level support from certified developers
- Proactive monitoring through performance and scaling analysis
- Optimized server hardware and configurations
More than 500 satisfied customers
But the management interface is the best. Here I can simply start services like Solr, NginX or Varnish with a mouse click – without additional costs or installation effort. I have rarely seen such a well thought out hosting that really makes my daily work easier
Rico Neitzel
run_as_root GmbH
The support of maxcluster has been helping us with words and deeds for years, so that we can rely on problems being identified and solved immediately in our daily operations.
Tobias Hille
DEINETÜR.DE
The stores run smoothly, performance has increased. In case of questions or problems, the maxcluster people are always available, competent and so nice! You can also get to know them personally at various events ... more is not possible! :) Thank you!
Manuela Vogt
BTS Business Trading Shops GmbH
We use maxcluster's managed hosting services not only for our customers' e-commerce projects. CMS-driven corporate websites and applications developed individually by us also benefit greatly from the high-performance setup provided by maxcluster.
Benno Weinzierl
Format D
FAQ – Frequently asked questions about our Akeneo hosting
Akeneo is a product information management system (PIM) that allows you to centrally maintain and enrich product data and distribute it to various channels. Texts, images, technical data, and translations are managed in one place and from there distributed to online shops, marketplaces, or other systems.
Akeneo hosting at maxcluster means that your PIM runs in an environment tailored to e-commerce requirements. You benefit from powerful enterprise hardware, a stack designed for product data, and high availability. This ensures that your product information is reliably and quickly available to connected systems.
Akeneo is worthwhile if you manage large amounts of complex product data and sell across multiple channels—for example, with Shopware or Magento. The larger the product range, the greater the variety of languages, and the higher the number of sales channels, the greater the benefits of a centrally controlled product database.
Akeneo reduces the effort required for data maintenance, errors, and duplication of work. Attributes, translations, and channel-specific content can be managed in a structured manner. With stable Akeneo hosting at maxcluster, your systems have access to consistent product data at all times, and your users receive up-to-date and complete information.
The community editions of Akeneo versions 4, 5, and 6 are no longer officially supported. They can still be run on our systems from a technical standpoint, but they no longer receive security updates. We therefore recommend using Akeneo 7, as this is the latest and only version still supported. Support for Akeneo 7 is expected to run until September 30, 2026.
Akeneo 7 officially requires Elasticsearch 8, but in practice it can also be run with OpenSearch. We provide OpenSearch at maxcluster and set up the environment accordingly.
The system basis includes current Ubuntu versions, Apache or NGINX, suitable PHP versions, and MySQL 8. We ensure that the PHP version, database, and search component are compatible with the selected Akeneo version. This provides you with a technically clean and stable foundation for operating your PIM system.
For Akeneo, we rely on 10 Gbit NVMe storage, which speeds up database queries and reduces execution times. A direct RAM cache optimizes read access, while a 10 Gbit network ensures fast internal data transfer. In combination with services such as Redis and Elasticsearch, this creates an environment designed for fast access to product data.
At the same time, we continuously monitor your application and the underlying resources. Potential bottlenecks are identified early on and can be compensated for through adjustments and scaling. This keeps your product data processes stable – even as data volumes grow.
You can set up Akeneo from scratch at maxcluster or migrate an existing system to us. For a new installation, we set up the appropriate environment, activate the necessary components, and ensure that Composer 2 and the required PHP versions are available. The actual installation is usually carried out by your agency or your internal development teams based on the official Akeneo documentation.
For a migration, we first consider the version, data volume, and connected systems. Based on this, we plan a test and productive migration. This allows you to test central functions and interfaces in the new environment before connections are finally switched over. This reduces downtime and risk when changing your Akeneo hosting.
During ongoing operation, our experienced system administrators are available 24/7/365 to provide support by phone. We assist you with any anomalies detected during monitoring, questions about scaling, or adjustments to the server configuration — for example, if data volumes or loads increase significantly.
We also keep an eye on the resources and availability of your PIM system and, if desired, provide recommendations on performance and scaling issues. This means you not only get an optimal infrastructure but also a partner who knows the requirements of Akeneo and PIM systems in e-commerce from experience and will support you in the long term.
If you can already estimate the resources you need, you can set up your Akeneo hosting environment directly using our hosting configurator. Alternatively, you can provide a few details to determine an initial configuration, which can be adjusted at any time during the project.