I’m writing this post to prevent you from making the mistake I made. When I started working on online store project the first thing I did was buying domain name and registering hosting account. After that I started researching the shopping cart platform. That was wrong. I should have chosen shopping cart platform first and then find the hosting that is optimal for it.
Every hosting is unique in one way or another. My thinking was to get cheap hosting first while online store is under development and then when it’s ready to go live to switch to different hosting plan if needed. So I chose the cheap shared hosting, installed Magento shopping cart platform and everything seemed to be going well. Until I started importing about 11,000 products into shopping cart.
The whole process of importing these many products was a nightmare. The problem was around different limitations that hosting provider impose on shared hosting account such as memory limit, time out length, etc. So I was getting “500 Server Error” multiple times during different stages of import process. Even after I finished the products import I was still running into different issues due to hosting limitations. Plus hosting support wasn’t that great either.
Online store is still under development but I’m aggressively looking to switch to different hosting provider now. I’ve already made the research and found the hosting that is optimal for Magento based ecommerce stores. It offers the basic plan with the ability to easily upgrade to advanced plan.
So don’t repeat the same mistake I made. I wasted so much time because of it and now I have to spend time on moving the site over.
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