FAQ: What is the architecture of MageStack
"Ask Sonassi" are excerpts taken from email responses to customer enquiries, used to quickly help inform you as a customer So I was listening to a podcast recently that touched on some facets of MageStack likening it to VPS hosting, is it just a VPS? In a word, no. Not even in the slightest. There's … Continue reading
Announcing MageStack GUI
MageStack is a truly powerful platform; providing native load balancing, high availability, massive horizontal and vertical scaling. But despite this, something it has been lacking is a simplified, single interface to managing all that power. The orchestration tooling behind the scenes does wondrous things - but for you as a customer; you have historically only … Continue reading
Announcing Magento auto-scaling on MageStack
MageStack has always been capable of scaling massively thanks to the amazing flexibility of its container-driven operating system; but it historically relied on two mechanisms for scaling, Our amazing proactive Intensive support team scaling your stack Pre-booking the resource on-demand or ahead of schedule for guaranteed availability But we've now taken it one step further. … Continue reading
Why add a CDN to your eCommerce store
MageStack comes with a number of options for going global; using one of our 25 worldwide data-centres or deploying MageStack Edge (for SSL termination, WAF, and Varnish content delivery at the edge). Most providers would stop there, but we wanted to offer just a little more to our customers - we've launched Sonassi CDN! What … Continue reading
Image optimisation, MageStack style
There's a battle for consumer content online, between having beautiful high resolution images and delivering extremely high levels of performance. All too common you'll find websites have the highest resolution, highest quality image possible that has come at the extreme penalty of performance. Wouldn't it be great if you could have both - without teaching … Continue reading
We just supercharged our network
Sonassi has always been proud of its incredibly high performance network, which for years has provided superb up-time, performance and capacity. But despite it being good, it wasn't great, we recognised we could make it even better. We promised that this year we'll be bringing in a series of amazing service upgrades, upgrading our network … Continue reading
Patching Magento SUPEE-10570
SUPEE-10570 is an important security update for Magento to address remote code execution and SQL injection vulnerabilities. Where to download Its best downloading the patch from the Magento.com download section - or via MDA - the Magento download tool (this is what this guide will use). Dependencies SUPEE-9652v2 Applying the patch The application of this … Continue reading
Its that time of year again, we're slowing down for Christmas
Our Christmas Opening Hours During the Christmas and New Year's Holidays, Sonassi will be offering remote technical support from Dec 23rd to Jan 3rd. Office hours technical support will resume regular hours (10 am to 6 pm GMT) beginning Jan 3rd. During these dates, our staff will be operating remotely - calls to our office … Continue reading
Faster performance, better support and broader reach
We set out to achieve eCommerce hosting perfection Almost 10 years ago, I founded Sonassi, where ever since, the team and I have worked tirelessly to build the absolute best eCommerce hosting company possible. I am continuously humbled by the loyal customer relationships we've developed over the years - and it is because of these … Continue reading
Patching Magento SUPEE-10415
SUPEE-10415 is an important security update for Magento to address remote code execution and SQL injection vulnerabilities. Where to download Its best downloading the patch from the Magento.com download section - or via MDA - the Magento download tool (this is what this guide will use). Dependencies SUPEE-8788v2 Applying the patch The application of this … Continue reading