Hosting Talk tested the top hosting solution Artera range optimized for ecommerce and addressed to SMEs. Here is the review. The edi...
Hosting Talk tested the top hosting solution Artera range optimized for ecommerce and addressed to SMEs. Here is the review.
The editors of Hosting Talk tested the Big Magento Hosting service Artera Srl, a company on the market both as a hosting provider is a web agency. Reviewed in the solution is in line with the company philosophy put forth by Artera, based on the provision of services accompanied by an assistance package to 360 degrees.
With Magento hosting solutions, the company clearly intends to focus on one area of ecommerce, who for several years has finally begun to show positive signs of growth even in Italy. After the modest results of 2013 (+ 8%), the ecommerce nostrano has indeed recorded double-digit growth both in 2014 (+ 16%) than in 2015 (it is estimated an increase of 15% and a market value of 15 billion of Euro).
Of course, at European level the peninsula is still far from the top of the table (for example, the French market is worth 56 billion euros, the UK is around 120 billion), but the trend is encouraging objectively.
As still refers Observatory eCommerce B2C Netcomm Polytechnic of Milan, the services and / or categories that serve as a driving force for the digital economy of the country are IT (+ 26%), clothing (+ 23%) , the food and wine, publishing (+ 21%), tourism (+ 9%) - surveys included in a report last April 2015.
In view of the above then it is obvious that the opening of an online store is now considered, especially by SMEs, which have been able to put away the last doubts and misgivings towards the new technologies as a strategic and important investment to expand its business and also achieve much larger foreign markets.
Artera, to meet the multiple needs of budget and growth of SMEs, it offers three hosting solutions entirely dedicated to Magento - which differ from one another in the amount of resources made available (web space, traffic, number of mailboxes).
The plan reviewed is the top range of Magento hosting solutions and provides the customer 8 GB of web space with daily backup 50 GB of web traffic to cope with a high number of visits and up to 50 professional email accounts. The Magento CMS is installed and pre-configured for use in the Italian market in order to provide a fully operational and the full compliance with the Italian regulations.
Cost of Hosting Magento Big Artera solution is 250 Euro + VAT per year, with no setup fee.
2. Overview on the technical characteristics of the tested service.
Artera delivers the webhosting services, cloud and dedicated servers through the space made available in 4 different data centers, located in Lugano (Switzerland) and Milan (Via Caldera) pole.
Each data center is well interconnected through one or more fiber optic rings; the Lugano datacenter is directly interconnected with the campus of Via Caldera, where there is an infrastructure of Artera and buildings of MiX.
Above framework allows Artera of delivering a webhosting service with the following characteristics:
Platform: LAMP (GNU / Linux, Apache, MySQL 5, PHP 5)
Registration / Domain transfer: 1 en / com / net / org included in the price
web space: 8GB
Email boxes: 50, each with Antispam, Antivirus, Alias, Redirect and WebMail
traffic included: 50GB
Dedicated RAM memory: 4GB
FTP access: Unlimited
Subdomains: unlimited
MySQL database: 1, with no limits on number of queries executed
Control Panel: CPanel
Supported languages: PERL, PHP 5, SSI, CGI, PYTHON, RUBY
Email used protocols: SMTP, POP3, IMAP (even over SSL: SMTPs, POPs, IMAPs)
Automatic backup: you, daily for internal use. Ability to manage and run independently backups from CPanel.
system of statistics: Yes
Cronjobs: you
SSH access: you
Dedicated IP Address: can be activated on demand (cost of 120 € / year)
SSL certificate: can be activated on demand (cost of 150 € / year)
Support: H24 via ticket system, forum, FAQ area; via toll 800-037623 Monday to Friday, during office hours, to request commercial information.
Uptime: 100% guaranteed, with penalty.
The CPanel control panel is very intuitive and simple to use. In the panel dashboard we find all the services that you can activate, usage statistics and links to access external tools (eg. PHPMyAdmin).
