New family of Web hosting plans are tailored specifically for the Magento eCommerce application.

Tampa, FL (OPENPRESS) August 22, 2008 — Web hosting provider ProperHost.net (http://www.properhost.net) announced on Wednesday the launch of a new family of hosting plans, tailored specifically for the Magento eCommerce application. Magento is a new open-source eCommerce solution offering merchants complete flexibility and control over the look, content, and functionality of their online store.

The Magento hosting plans on offer are powered by Intel Q6600 Quad-Core servers, and tweaked to perform particularly well with Magento online stores. The company currently has two different plans on offer - Basic and Pro - which let business owners choose an appropriate plan depending on the size of their store and their budget. A free Magento installation is included with each plan.

A complete specification is available at: http://www.properhost.net/magento-web-hosting.html

“Due to its robust architecture and extensive feature set, Magento is a quite resource intensive application and may therefore suffer from performance issues when deployed in a regular shared hosting environment. By placing only a small number of clients on each server, we have been able to provide a premium service to Magento store owners at the fraction of the cost of a dedicated server. Independent tests have shown a significant performance boost using our optimized solution, compared to many of our competitors”, says Sindre Moe, Director of ProperHost.net.

Magento has gained much popularity over the last months since its official release in April, 2008, and have already won several awards including SourceForge.net’s prestigious “Best New Project 2008”. It is currently the fastest growing eCommerce platform on the market, with more than 30,000 community members and 400,000+ downloads to date.

Jack Aboutboul, Community Engineer at Red Hat, has said the following: “Magento is going to win the open-source eCommerce war, hands down. I’ve never seen another platform so well architected and well designed as Magento.”

For more information about Magento, visit http://www.magentocommerce.com

About ProperHost.net
Since 2004, ProperHost.net has been providing web hosting and domain registration services to individuals and businesses worldwide. In August 2008, they entered the eCommerce market releasing a web hosting solution optimized specifically for the Magento platform.

For more information about ProperHost.net, visit http://www.properhost.net