Use Amazon CloudFront CDN to instantly improve the performance of your...
In this post i will explain what Amazon CloudFront CDN is and how to use it with magento. Whether you just launched a new magento store or are maintaining an existing one, sooner or later you will...
View ArticleHow to manage your Magento logs with Graylog2
In this post i will explain what Graylog2 is and how to use it with magento. By default magento stores exceptions and other information in log files which is fine for development but in production you...
View ArticleCustomer reviews for social trust to increase sales
Trust has always been one of the most important factors in the customer´s purchase decision process. That principle applies not only for retail stores. This raises the question about which is the...
View ArticleMagento on Steroids – Best practice for highest performance
There are plenty of blog posts with tips how to increase the performance of a magento store this shows us how important the speed of a magento store is. As you may heard google is obsessed with speed,...
View Article6 common reasons to use Amazon’s Cloud for Magento hosting
Summary The configuration of an e-commerce shop like a Magento shop is essential, because we live in a world where every millisecond counts and we need this to be proved on every traffic peak. The...
View ArticleThe right Magento Cache strategy for best performance
There are many blog posts about magento cache and how to configure it right. In this blog post i want to explain which cache backend (File System, APC, Memcached, Redis) is recommended in which...
View ArticleMagento Email Tracking in Google Analytics
You send newsletters to your customers, but how many customers click on them to visit your Magento shop? Next questions should be: If they click what happens in the next step? Does a text mail work...
View Article70 conversion optimization tips for a Magento shop
Introduction E-commerce has become one of the best ways to sell products today. The Magento application is one of the biggest shopping platforms. In this checklist we like to show you how to become...
View ArticleMagento Kickstarter – Creates a skeleton for a new module
In my daily job as a Magento Developer i have to extend the standard functionality of magento. The standard way of doing this is to write a module. Over the last years i have developed more then...
View ArticleVarnish Cache – Best performance for Magento
As a fact we know that a slow Magento shop destroys the shopping experience. Further issues are bad search engine results and lower conversion rates. In this article we like to answer the question why...
View ArticleMagento Auto Scaling with Varnish on Amazon AWS
In this blog post i want to explain how to Auto Scale Magento together with Varnish Cache on the Amazon AWS Cloud. A lot of our customers do a lot of marketing like sending newsletter, groupon or tv...
View ArticleMagento and HHVM 50% more performance!
As magento owner, developer or sysadmin you maybe know some performance bottlenecks and how to tweak your server for getting a better performance. In this article we like to show you the benefits of...
View ArticleCloudPanel – Management made easy
What is CloudPanel? CloudPanel is a control panel to manage your server. It supports newest technologies ( NGINX, php-fpm, HHVM, redis cache, Varnish, Memcache and many more! ). Now you can easily...
View ArticleBetter search engine ranking with HTTPS and Varnish
HTTPS is becoming more important every day. Last year Google started ranking HTTPS websites higher than HTTP only websites. Serving your websites over HTTPS instead of HTTP also gives your customers a...
View ArticlePHP 7 – The next big thing for Magento
Our passion at MGT is performance and we love to use the newest and fastest technologies. Our goal is to get the maximum performance for our customers and to use only resources which are actually...
View ArticleMGT Development Environment – Next Generation Local Development Environment...
We are proud to release our newest product MGT Development Environment. We got asked from many companies if we could provide an image with all components to develop locally. Luckily this year docker...
View ArticleMGT Varnish Cache for Magento 2
We have used the web accelerator Varnish Cache for Magento 1 for over five years, because it’s blazing fast and comes along with many other benefits like saving infrastructure costs and higher...
View ArticleMGT Code Deploy – Zero Downtime Deployment for Magento
We are proud to release our newest solution MGT Code Deploy, a zero downtime deployment solution for Magento on AWS. The last few years taught us what our customers really need in order to rapidly...
View ArticleMGT Insight: How our backup system works
In any business, it’s imperative to have insurance for primary business tools, such as property insurance. When it comes to e-commerce businesses, a thoroughly thought backup strategy is your...
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