Nucleus is a leading managed cloud provider in Belgium. This presentation was given in May 2015 at the Belgento summit. It explains a set of criteria in selecting your magento hoster and some tips & tricks for your performant magento hosting.

1. BELGENTO 2015
David Geens, Managing Partner Nucleus
13 mei 2015
www.nucleus.be

2. Content
1. Who am I?
2. Who is Nucleus?
3. Magento cloud hosting: ingredients to success.
4. How do I select my Magento hosting provider?
5. What is important for a performant Magento hosting?
6. Q&A
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3. Who is David Geens?
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• 40 year, husband and father,
entrepreneur & Mormon
• Managing Partner Nucleus
• Board member ISPA
• Member registrar forum DNS Belgium
• Author “Het is Cloudy vandaag”
• IT engineer & manager
• Top 20 Datanews influencial IT’ers

4. Who is Nucleus?
• 15 years of experience with expertise in hosting solutions
• Independent hosting player
• Team of 19 specialised engineers
• Located in Antwerpen
• Operational via 4 datacenters: Antwerpen, Diegem, Nossegem
en Zaventem
• More than 2500 servers under own management
• Figures 2014: € 4 mil turnover & profitable
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5. What we do
“Uptime-as-a-Service”
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IT infrastructure
Guaranteed uptime
Management, advice,
follow up, security, …
As a Service

6. Some of our customer base
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7. Magento Cloud hosting: ingredients to success
• Good infrastructure:
• Network
• Equipment
• Good people
• Good architecture
• Good management
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• DevOps
• Life cycle management
• Load balancing
• Multidatacenter setup
• Information Management

8. The Nucleus network
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9. Cloud Servers
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10. Hardware independent
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11. High availability
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12. Scalability
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13. Always available staff
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14. Devops: definition
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15. Devops: where three expertise fields collide
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16. Devops: an endless loop
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17. Life cycle management
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18. Load balancing
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19. Multi datacenter high availability
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20. Good information management system
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21. Criterium 1: net neutral hoster
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22. Criterium 2: know to scale out
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23. Criterium 3: proactivity cfr outdated Magento
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24. Criterium 4: allow to grow
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25. Criterium 5: don’t get burned by solr
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26. Tips & tricks for performant Magento hosting
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• More cpu than average
• Higher memory_limit value in PHP (default = 64MB, Magento =
192MB)
• Scripts checking Magento version, automatic mail if out-of-date
• Output compression & gzip of all data (HTML + javascript +
images)
• Most recent PHP version
• PHP opcaching enablen
• Install Memcached for caching
• Install Varnish for anonymous visitor caching
• SSL with A-rating
• KeepAlive enablen on Apache webserver
• MySQL query caching enablen

27. Q & A
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28. CONTACT
David Geens, Managing Partner Nucleus
E: david@nucleus.be
M: +32 475 60 80 11
T: +32 3 275 01 60
www.nucleus.be