Hosting and speed
A server tuned for the shop: PHP-FPM, OPcache, Varnish for full-page caching, Redis, and a look at the slowest database queries.
E-commerce
Hosting and maintenance for online shops
We look after the technical side of PrestaShop, Magento and WooCommerce shops: the server, updates, speed, the connections to payment and shipping, and the order emails. You keep selling. Your agency or developer keeps building.
The November problem
Most shops run fine for eleven months. Then a campaign brings five times the traffic, and that's when a slow query, an uncached page or a module update from last week shows up. Preparing in September is cheap. Finding out on Black Friday isn't.
What's included
What we do
Updates
Core, modules and extensions, tested on a copy of the shop before they go live. Security patches, a locked-down admin, and control over the scripts on the payment pages (PCI DSS asks).
Peak season
A load test, the fixes it turns up, a freeze on changes in the run-up, and someone on call for the weekend.
Connections
Payment, shipping, marketplaces, ERP and accounting. With checks, so you hear about a broken one from us and not from a customer.
Order and campaign mail
Authenticated, monitored and sent through something like Brevo, so it lands in the inbox.
Technical SEO
Crawling, redirects, structured data, sitemaps, Core Web Vitals.
What you have at the end
- A test copy of the shop and a release routine
- A speed baseline and load-test report
- A peak-season runbook
- A monthly report
What we don't do
- Theme design and large custom modules. That's for your agency
- Content and product photos
Prices
What it costs
Shop maintenance
€249 / month
Updates tested on a copy, security patches, monitoring, backups, a monthly report and 2 hours of changes.
Black Friday preparation
€1,490
Load test, list of fixes, change-freeze runbook. Weekend on-call is priced separately.
Technical SEO check
€690
Crawling, redirects, structured data, sitemaps and Core Web Vitals, with a list of fixes in order.
Prices are without VAT. Anything else is quoted, or charged at €96.80 an hour. All prices.
Software
What we use for this
- PrestaShop
- Magento Open Source
- WooCommerce
- Varnish
- Redis
- OpenSearch
- MySQL
- PHP-FPM
- Brevo
Questions
Things people ask
- Do you build themes and modules?
- Small fixes, yes. Bigger development stays with your agency or developer. We handle the servers, the releases and keeping it running.
- Is October too late to prepare for Black Friday?
- It's tight but not hopeless. A load test and the quickest fixes fit in a few weeks. The rest goes on next year's list.
Articles
If you want the detail
E-commerce platforms
Getting a PrestaShop or Magento shop through Black Friday
Peak traffic rarely breaks a shop in a new way. It finds the slow query, the uncached page and the flaky payment callback that were already there. What we check, in what order, and when to stop changing things.
E-commerce platforms
Why your order confirmations end up in spam
When order mail lands in the spam folder, it's nearly always a setup problem. How SPF, DKIM and DMARC work together, what "alignment" means, and how to get from p=none to p=reject without losing mail on the way.
Got something that needs looking after?
Tell us what you have and what's bothering you. You'll hear back within one working day, usually with a few questions before any price.