Choosing a hosting company

The right Magento hosting provided might make or break your store performance. After all, you want to make sure your servers don’t let you down with an unexpected shutdown during a high sales season, especially around holiday seasons.

Magento is a powerful platform that requires just as powerful hosting.

As an expert Magento development agency with 15+ years of expertise, Atwix has witnessed many merchants’ performance issues deeply rooted in server environment. And we’ve helped dozens of businesses successfully solve it by finding, setting, and optimizing the right hosting resources.

Read on to see the list of the best Magento hosting providers and things to factor in while choosing one. 

How to Copy Files Between Adobe Cloud Instances

With 15 years in the market, and more than 150,000 online stores running, Magento is a powerhouse in the ecommerce industry. It’s flexible and feature-rich – hence, the top choice among mid-sized and large businesses – all thanks to the thriving community built around it. 

But as it often happens, there’s no rose without a thorn. And in the case of Magento, for many merchants, the thorn is the level of ‌technical expertise required to unlock Magento’s power. Most often, this requires a skilled Magento development team – internal or external. And If you don’t possess the needed development skills within your company,  how then do you choose a professional Magento development team from the vast pool of available talent, and without becoming overwhelmed?

As a certified Magento / Adobe Partner, and a Magento development firm with 15 years of expertise, Atwix is here to shed some light on the issue. Read on to learn what truly matters when choosing a Magento ecommerce agency.

Most Popular Magento 2 Extensions in 2022

Magento 2 extensions provide additional flexibility to your eCommerce store with the looks and hooks to grow your sales.

These modules built by expert developers (Atwix included) add new capabilities to your online store that might not be available in the default Magento installation. They’re also pre-built and can be rapidly deployed, which will save you from overhead costs and overdue timelines.

Read on to find the list of the best Magento 2 extensions that will power up any part of your business.

Enable Maintenance Mode in Magento:Adobe Commerce

In our “Close Magento store for maintenance” blog post, we described how to close a store for maintenance and the restrictions we have for maintenance mode in Magento 1. Fortunately, or unfortunately, time goes fast, and things change. Magento application also evolves and becomes more adaptable to business needs

Today we already have Magento 2 and would like to discuss the opportunities that Magento Open Source and Adobe Commerce offer for website owners (merchants) regarding maintenance mode features. Also, we will overview their advantages and disadvantages and applicable cases of each solution. So, let’s get started.

eCommerce Platform For Auto Parts Business

In the U.S. alone, over 1,300 companies are involved in manufacturing parts for various automobiles.

As with most other industries, auto parts manufacturing slowed at the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, and customer behavior changed drastically. As lockdowns were ordered and the automotive supply chain was affected, clients turned to eCommerce stores for their auto parts.

Automotive eCommerce, which includes auto parts eCommerce, is here to stay and is only expected to grow in the future.

So, how do you build a competitive auto parts eCommerce platform?

Introduction to Magento and the MACH world

If you haven’t heard of MACH, allow us to elaborate on what it stands for. By searching the internet, you may find that “MACH number (M or Ma) is a dimensionless quantity in fluid dynamics representing the ratio of flow velocity past a boundary to the local speed of sound.” 

While that MACH is named after Moravian physicist and philosopher Ernst Mach, our MACH is from the Information Technologies world :)

Quality Patches Tool Overview and How to Efficiently Use It

Most of our readers know that Magento has security, cloud, quality, and custom patches that can be installed to fix particular website issues on Adobe Commerce or Magento Open Source platforms. 

In this post, we’ll speak about the tool released by Adobe to apply quality patches and work with them – Quality Patches Tool (QPT). In addition, we’ll describe how to use QPT on different Magento platforms and the existing best practices.