Professional Magento Upgrade Service
by Kyle on · Posted in Magento · 3 Comments
Want to upgrade your store to the latest version of Magento but are worried something might go wrong?
Don't stress over the possibility of a botched upgrade ruining your store, breaking your current design, or throwing up errors that you're not sure how to fix.
Crucial offers a professional upgrade service to all of our clients that will take away the stress and hassle of doing it yourself.
Setting Up A Magento Staging Area
The best way to test out a new Magento release without potentially destroying your production store is to setup a staging area.
A staging area is a duplicate of your primary store that you can use to see if the upgrade process will go smoothly, and also allow you to use both the frontend and backend of your site to see if everything is running properly.
How To Setup Multiple Magento Stores
by Kyle on · Posted in Howto, Magento · 20 Comments
There are numerous ways to setup multiple Magento stores that all share the same codebase and backend, but what method you use depends on your needs.
This article is written with cPanel in mind, though the methodologies listed below apply no matter what control panel you're using.
Solid Gold: Crucial Partners With Varien & Magento
by Kyle on · Posted in Magento, News · 0 Comments
We are very pleased to announce the advancement of our partnership with Varien, the developers of Magento, an open source ecommerce solution for businesses of all sizes.
Improving Magento Speed & Performance With MySQL Query Cache
Improving Magento performance is at the top of the list for most professional Magento developers. There's no doubt that enhancing the speed at which Magento performs can only be good for business.
Magento Hosting
by Kyle on · Posted in Hosting, Magento · 0 Comments
I've been reading a lot of posts on the Magento forum about installation troubles, specifically with mod_rewrite (htaccess) and the MySQLi and PDO_MySQL extensions for PHP. As mentioned in our Magento installation guide, Crucial's Split-Shared hosting is fully compatible with Magento.
Magento Commerce Install Guide
This is a step-by-step tutorial on installing Magento Commerce on one of our Split-Shared hosting accounts. I was recently introduced to Magento in a pre-sales chat. Up until that chat, I had never heard about it, but decided to check it out.