Unfortunately the platform has, over the years gained a reputation for being slow. This is more to do with the configuration of the hosting platform, or perhaps certain custom code which may not have been deployed with full testing. Too often changes are made to X-CART production environments, which impact performance and thus negatively impact the shopping experience for customers.
All our APP:Host X-Cart hosting plans have a staging server included, meaning that O/S component updates, security patches, X-Cart version updates, all of these can first be deployed in a staging environment and fully tested by us and your team, before anything goes live. Any downtime for a store is expensive, and potentially crippling for the business, as long term customers may simply search elsewhere if they can't get on - never to return. So the provision of a staging environment is extra insurance against customer loss if your business is not quite ready for one of our multiple server APP:Host X-CART plans - which naturally offer the very highest levels of reliability.
BASE PRODUCTION SERVER | STAGING SERVER | |
SERVER SUPPORT | Fully managed | Fully managed |
vCPU | 4 | 1 |
DISK | 100GB SSD | 100GB SAS |
RAM | 8GB RAM | 2GB RAM |
SSL OFFLOAD | Yes | Yes |
SSL VPN | Yes | Yes |
DEDICATED SECURE VLAN | Yes | Yes |
FIREWALL | PaloAlto | PaloAlto |
SERVER BACK-UP | R1Soft | R1Soft |
LOCATION | UK Datacentre | UK Datacentre |
• Oracle Linux
• LiteSpeed Webserver 2-CPU
• New Relic APM Essentials for web server monitoring as standard
• Interworx Panel (unlimited domains / secondary domains)
• MySQL Server
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• Oracle Linux
• LiteSpeed Webserver 2-CPU
• New Relic APM for web server monitoring as standard
• Interworx Panel (unlimited domains / secondary domains)
• Oracle Linux
• Interworx Panel (unlimited domains / secondary domains)
• MySQL Server
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• Oracle Linux
• LiteSpeed Webserver 2-CPU
• New Relic APM for web server monitoring as standard
• Interworx Panel (unlimited domains / secondary domains)
• Oracle Linux
• Interworx Panel (unlimited domains / secondary domains)
• MySQL Server
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• Oracle Linux
• LiteSpeed Webserver 2-CPU
• New Relic APM for web server monitoring as standard
• Interworx Panel (unlimited domains / secondary domains)
• Oracle Linux
• Interworx Panel (unlimited domains / secondary domains)
• MySQL Server