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Twice is already a tradition: our maxcluster Partner Day 2024 was like a land of milk and honey for tech nerds, networkers and LEGO enthusiasts – a celebration of ideas, encounters and good food 🙂

In the fiercely competitive world of e-commerce, downtime is unacceptable. Therefore, high availability is essential for hosting online shops.

In an era marked by the exponential growth of online shopping, the significance of privacy compliance for e-commerce establishments cannot be overstated.

The release of PHP 8.3 marks a significant milestone in the evolution of the popular scripting language. Packed with a wealth of new features and enhancements, this version offers even more performance, features, and bug fixes for developers worldwide.

Are you looking for the optimal host for a new project, or considering switching from your current host? We're here to help you navigate this process, providing key insights to aid in your decision-making.

The month of September was all about the first maxcluster partner day for us. After intensive planning, we were very much looking forward to spending two days with our partner agencies at our premises, listening to interesting presentations and exchanging ideas.

On the last weekend in September, the Magento community met in Cologne for the Mage UnConference 2023. Together with e3n we supported the event as the main sponsors and want to share our impressions with you in this review.

Anyone searching for specific products or categories in an online shop wants to receive suitable search results within seconds. In this blog post we show how the full-text search engine OpenSearch can support this.

PIM systems support the collection, management and distribution of product data in e-commerce. In this article we explain the functionality and advantages of the digital experience platform Pimcore.

On 8 December 2022, PHP 8.2, the new minor version of the PHP scripting language, was released. In this blog post, we show which innovations and changes are contained in PHP 8.2.

Early birds catch the worms. But if you want to have access to an extensive shopping assortment around the clock, you should rather become a LateBird.

Receiving requests, retrieving data and transferring it to the client: web servers make data from websites available on the net. But which web server solution fits which requirements? Here you can find out everything you need to know about web servers in e-commerce!

The Mage UnConference has been an integral part of maxcluster's event calendar for many years. In 2022, we were not only on site with a team of seven employees, but also supported the event again as one of the main sponsors.

The larger the product range in the online shop, the more data has to be managed and updated on a daily basis. A PIM system like Akeneo can reduce the effort involved and bring great added value.

In e-commerce, headless commerce is the term for online shops whose frontend and backend function decoupled from each other. In this article we look at the background to this solution approach and the advantages and disadvantages of its use in e-commerce.

Whether it's a large, dynamic online shop or a small blog with exclusively static content: In our blog series, operators of web applications of all kinds will find helpful tips, tools and tweaks on the topic of performance!

Hosting is one of the basic technologies of the internet and now has an incredible number of facets. In this article we give a basic overview of web hosting and take a closer look at the special features of e-commerce hosting.

On 25 November 2021, almost exactly one year after the major release of PHP 8.0, the latest version of the scripting language, PHP 8.1, was released. This release also brings with it a whole host of new features and improvements. But when and under what conditions does it make sense to switch to PHP 8.1?

When the term Open Source is mentioned, developers' hearts often beat faster. The concept of Open Source promises great creative opportunities and a lot of freedom on the code level.

In e-commerce, it is of great importance that online shops run fast and efficiently even with a lot of traffic. We show you how to optimally exploit the performance potential of your online shop with the full-page cache Varnish.

Simon Sprankel from CustomGento has been part of the Magento cosmos for over ten years. In the community and in meetups he shares his extensive knowledge, co-develops solutions and is an active contributor.

Good performance is the be-all and end-all of any online shop. A decisive factor here is the load time. If a shop loads too slowly, the user experience suffers considerably. This has a negative impact on the conversion rate and quickly leads to a loss of sales.

Shared Hosting? Cloud Hosting? Colocation Web Hosting? Managed hosting? When looking for the right hosting solution, the range of options for store owners can be confusing and raise many questions.

How does one actually come up with the idea of extending a support end? Carmen Bremen, co-founder of Mage One, chats in this guest article and lets us take a look behind the scenes:

The e-commerce agency 7thSENSE has specialised in the creation and implementation of e-commerce solutions for over ten years. Its clients include well-known companies such as Kärcher, WMF and VAUDE.

It cannot be emphasised often enough: Successful online shops not only offer an extensive, attractive range of products, but are also, above all, high-performing.

Faster, more efficient programming and thus more time for finding solutions to exciting and challenging problems in e-commerce? Probably the dream of every (Magento) developer.

For a successful online shop, it is not enough if the products on offer are particularly beautiful, cheap or fancy. To appeal to customers and encourage them to buy, the user experience (UX) must also be right.

Performance problems with Magento 2 online shops? The frontend theme loads loads of JavaScript? The new Hyvä theme by developer Willem Wigman could provide a remedy.

Just in time for the release of PHP 8.0, the SaaS provider Tideways has launched its latest version. This means that customers can also rely on Tideways' proven performance management, exception tracking and profiling with the new major release of PHP.

The 26.11.2020 was circled in red in the calendars of many developers, because then the long-awaited version PHP 8.0 was released. What new features and improvements does the new version contain and how and when should you switch to PHP 8.0?

A few years ago, "Black Friday" was merely the day after Thanksgiving and thus a bridge day for many Americans, but in recent years it has become the prelude to the pre-Christmas shopping season - and not only in the USA.

It is now a few weeks after the official end of support for Magento 1 and for most online shop operators little or nothing has changed since then. Nevertheless, many people are pointing out that there are many risks associated with the Magento 1 EOL.

For online shop operators, the topic of "Progressive Web App" is increasingly coming to the fore. The symbiosis of responsive website and app offers consumers a high user experience and thus a strong tool for customer loyalty for online shop operators.

As with the millennium change on 31 December 1999, many horror scenarios were painted for the Magento 1 EOL on 30 June 2020 - which then came to pass just as little as the information technology super-GAU on the aforementioned New Year's Eve twenty years ago.

A functioning shop system is the basis for every online shop. And the choice of solutions is constantly increasing. So how should one make the right choice? This question is not only asked by new shop operators, but also by those whose shop has been on the market for some time in view of the EOL of Magento 1 at the end of June.

Today, anyone searching in an online shop or web application not only expects meaningful results immediately, but also support in the form of autocompletes or search suggestions.

Buying a new laptop on the bus, finding inspiration for the living room design on social media channels on the train and quickly ordering the ingredients for dinner from the supermarket in the café. According to Statista, around 74 % of Germans use their smartphones to access the internet for these activities.

If you type "sustainable hosting" into Google, the search engine throws up 940,000 entries within 0.55 seconds. Whether it is due to the "Fridays for Future" movement or the general increase in awareness of ecological issues - sustainable hosting is increasingly coming into focus. But what is actually meant by this and what measures are we taking at maxcluster to give our customers a clear green conscience? We explore these questions in our blog post.

June is approaching in leaps and bounds, and with it the date that Magento fans have long refused to believe: Magento 1 EOL. But what does this date actually mean for all online shop operators whose shops run with Magento 1? And how should they prepare for this date? We explore these questions in an interview with Rico Neitzel, managing director of the advertising agency "Büro 71a" and co-founder of "Mage One".

In April 2020, we conducted the first interview with Nils Preuß. At the time of the interview, GastroHero's PWA store was already live, except for a few storeviews. Since October 2020, the live walk has now been completed - time for us to ask again if there are any new insights and experiences.

Since September 2019, the presentation of secure (encrypted) websites on most end devices has changed fundamentally. Are there still arguments in favor of expensive and elaborate Extended Validation (EV) certificates?

PHP 7.4 was released at the end of November 2019 and is the last minor version before the release of PHP 8. What new features does PHP 7.4 bring? What are the advantages and when does it make sense to switch to PHP 7.4? We explore these questions in our article.

What is managed hosting and what are the advantages of this model for users? We explore these and other questions in the blog and explain the different models to you.

The e-commerce agency Mothership has launched its first Magento2 PWA shop, which we host. In the interview, you can find out what experiences the Mothership team has had with Magento's "PWA Studio", what pitfalls there were and how well the shop is performing now.

In the fifth part of our blog series, we explain step by step how to integrate Redis into Magento. Which preparations have to be made, which code blocks have to be inserted and how Redis is activated in maxcluster.

Which form of session storage leads to better performance in online shops? File system, memory or database? In our sessions benchmark, we measured and evaluated the write, read and change operations per second of Redis, NVMe SSDs and MySQL.

Which form of application cache leads to more performance in e-commerce: the use of Redis, memcached or NVMe SSDs? We carried out a benchmark and measured the throughput of write, read and delete operations per second.

Online shops that have many visitors generate many shopping baskets, from which sessions are generated. The sessions can be stored in different ways. In the first part of the blog series on Redis, we summarised the advantages that the NoSQL database Redis offers in the area of sessions and application cache for the performance of Shopware and Magento.

Our e-commerce stack consists of many web services, tools, functions and an optimised hosting architecture for online shops. Our experience with over 500 e-commerce customers is constantly flowing into the expansion and improvement of the stack. Online shops can be customised, configuration errors are avoided and configuration time is significantly reduced. Learn more about why maxcluster's e-commerce stack is like no other stack.

Nowadays, data centres have to meet the highest German security standards so that the customer can be guaranteed the best possible quality and reliability at all times. maxcluster goes one step further: we guarantee that the data is located exclusively in Germany and that you can access it at any time. The multi-level security concept is even used by banks with very high requirements.