Knowledge

Know-how for the operation of online shops

Knowledge is also the key to success in e-commerce! As a hosting provider, we want to support online shop operators, developers and agencies with our expertise and experience in their daily work in the best possible way.

On this platform, we share useful knowledge in the form of white papers, e-books, blog posts and configuration guides to make both small and more complex online shops even more performant, stable and secure.

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Whitepapers

E-commerce solutions in comparison

How to find the right shop system

The choice of the shop system is not easy due to the large number of solutions. We present some of them and show what helps in the decision-making process.

Magento Shopware E-Commerce Whitepaper

Progressive Web Apps

The e-commerce gamechanger?

Progressive web apps are traded as the possible future of e-commerce. We show how they work and what potential they offer.'

Whitepaper

Fast, faster, Hyvä Themes

Fresh Frontend power for Magento 2

Hyvä Themes brings a breath of fresh air and maximum performance to the Magento 2 frontend. We show how the solution is built and what advantages it offers.

Magenot Performance E-Commerce Whitepaper

E-books

Performance optimisation with Redis

More performance for online shops

Performance benchmarks and configuration tips – With Redis, the performance of online shops can be greatly improved depending on the shop system and size.

Redis E-Book Performance Shopware Magento

Efficient profiling tools

Improve performance – identify bottlenecks

When online shop load times are very high for no apparent reason, profiling tools can help in locating bottlenecks.

Performance E-Book

Magento Performance Guide

Step by step to a better performance

Get more out of your online shop? This guide contains numerous tips and methods to significantly increase the performance of your Magento shop.

E-Book Performance Magento

Shopware Performance Guide

Step by step to a better performance

Want more performance? In this guide you will find concrete tips and configuration instructions for increasing the performance of your Shopware shop.

E-Book Performance Shopware

Newest blog posts

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Was ist Cloud Hosting?

Regelmäßig werden wir bei maxcluster zum Thema Cloud Hosting befragt. Aber was ist Cloud Hosting eigentlich genau und inwiefern unterscheidet es sich vom klassischen On-Premise Hosting?

Performance

Review – Shopware Community UnConf 2023

After the successful premiere last year, we again supported the Shopware Community UnConference 2023 as one of the main sponsors. What we experienced from 24 to 26 March in Cologne, we report in this review.

Shopware Events

Shopware 5 End Of Life – Interview with safefive

August 2024 – and with it the "end of life" of Shopware 5 – still seems a long way off. However, experience shows that the deadline comes sooner than expected. Co-initiator Carmen Bremen reports in an interview on how the community initiative safefive can support shop operators in terms of security after the EOL of Shopware 5.

Shopware Security

E-mail authentication in e-commerce

E-mails are the most frequently used form of communication in e-commerce. In this article, we look at the SPF, DKIM and DMARC frameworks. We show how they can contribute to secure and authenticated emailing.

Security

PHP 8.2 – Worth the update?

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.

Magento Performance Shopware New features

maxcluster - the 2022 review

2022 was a special year for maxcluster. 10 years have passed since its foundation and the company has evolved from a university spin-off to an important player in the German hosting industry.

About us

LateBird - the shopping innovation | customer interview

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.

About us

Web server solutions in comparison

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!

Performance Shopware Magento

Review – Mage UnConference 2022

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.

Magento Events

Greater success on Black Friday, Cyber Monday and Co.

Black Friday, Black Week, Cyber Monday, Cyber Week: Both in e-commerce and in stationary trade, retailers lure their customers every year towards the end of November with discounts and offers. These tips will make planned campaign days a success for shop operators.

Performance

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