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Magento is a powerful eCommerce platform, trusted by businesses large and small for its flexibility and robust feature set. Yet, anyone who has managed a Magento project knows it can be an adventure—especially during deployment. Misconfigured environments, extension conflicts, and unpredictable performance are just a few issues that can turn a routine release into a hair-pulling session.

In today’s fast-paced digital world, IT managers face mounting challenges in keeping their teams efficient, their infrastructure scalable, and their applications running without disruption. Traditional hosting providers often exacerbate these challenges by operating as black boxes—offering little transparency and leaving IT teams scrambling when something goes wrong. At Upsun, we believe IT leaders should demand more from their infrastructure solutions.

Authored by Upsun Magento specialists, Stephanie Daugherty and Jared Wright. Magento is a powerful eCommerce platform that drives thousands of online stores worldwide. Its flexible, scalable, and feature-rich environment makes it a top choice for retailers across diverse industries. However, Magento’s extensive feature set and complexity can create performance bottlenecks—especially as businesses scale.

Is your ecommerce store traffic resulting in enough conversions? If not, your store might be facing performance issues. Amazon loses 1% of its $141 billion online sales for every 100ms of latency. BBC risks 10% of its website visitors for every additional second of load time. As your business grows, the need to build new features, customize code, and integrate third-party systems grows.

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Upsun teams are always striving to ensure a safe space for all developers within our product. And this consistent diligence led to the Upsun Engineering team discovering a security vulnerability in the golang.org/x/crypto/ssh package on 5 September 2024. Upon investigating an unexpected Panic: runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference message in our edge proxy, the engineers discovered a misimplementation of the PublicKeyCallback function.

FinOps Professional Sumaira Nazir defines herself by her commitment to growth. With a master's degree in psychology and a background in both business analysis and project management, Sumaira’s passion for self-improvement means she’s always in pursuit of her next professional milestone. In fact, this love of learning is part of what drew her to Upsun.

Upsun was built on a set of core principles: positive impact, caring for others, fairness, aiming for the stars. Since 2015, our founders have followed their own true north, creating a cloud application platform and technologies that would make developers’ daily lives easier. Like most for-profit businesses, the leadership team sought marketplace differentiation. Revenue growth. Continuous innovation. But they wanted something more.

As developers we’re always on the lookout for ways to boost application performance and streamline the development process. Whether managing a Symfony application or any other modern PHP framework, to deploy quickly, efficiently, and with enhanced speed is the crucial goal we all want to achieve.

We've been there, done that, and we're here to help. Drawing from our extensive experience with customers managing thousands of projects, navigating diverse tech stacks in the open source world, and tackling the complexities of ecommerce, we've put together a list of essential requirements for your next website relaunch. Consider these fundamentals from the start to ensure you benefit from enhanced site speed and performance, making your project launch smoother and more successful.