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What is Magento?

Magento Open Source is a powerful, free ecommerce platform used by some of the world's best-known online retailers. It is built for stores with large catalogues, complex product types and pricing, or several storefronts, and can be customised extensively by developers.

That power comes with heavier requirements than other shopping carts. Current versions of Magento need OpenSearch for catalogue search, plenty of memory and regular background jobs. Shared web hosting is not a good fit, so we recommend running Magento on a Managed cPanel VPS, where you get dedicated resources while still managing your store with cPanel and Softaculous.

Magento features

What you get when you run Magento on Hoopla Hosting.

Large, complex catalogues

Handle thousands of products with configurable, bundled, grouped and downloadable product types.

Multiple websites and stores

Run several websites, stores and store views with different languages, currencies and catalogues from one installation.

Advanced pricing and promotions

Set tier pricing, customer-group pricing, catalogue and cart price rules, and coupons.

Page Builder

Create content pages and product layouts with a drag-and-drop editor.

Layered navigation and search

Help shoppers filter large catalogues by attributes, with fast search powered by OpenSearch.

Extensive extension ecosystem

Add payment, shipping, ERP and marketing integrations from the Adobe Commerce Marketplace.

What can you build with Magento?

Established retailers

Stores with high order volumes and large product ranges.

Complex product catalogues

Products with many configurations, bundles or B2B-style pricing tiers.

Multi-brand and multi-region stores

Several storefronts sharing one catalogue and back office.

Developer-led builds

Projects with custom integrations built by a Magento agency.

Softaculous one-click application installer

Why host Magento with Hoopla?

Install Magento in a few clicks with Softaculous in cPanel, then keep it running on fast, secure New Zealand hosting backed by a local support team.

  • One-click install and updates with Softaculous
  • Staging copies to test changes safely
  • Daily backups with JetBackup
  • Free SSL certificates
  • LiteSpeed web server and SSD storage
  • Web application firewall
  • Auckland infrastructure and 24/7 support
  • Free migration from your current host
FREE MIGRATION

Magento hosting requirements

Magento needs OpenSearch, Composer, cron jobs and several gigabytes of memory, which is more than shared hosting provides. Our Managed cPanel VPS plans give your store dedicated CPU, memory and storage, with our team managing the server and cPanel and Softaculous for day-to-day tasks. Contact us before you order and we can help size a VPS for your catalogue and traffic.

Recommended: Managed cPanel VPS

$123.19+GST141.67incl. GST/month

Starting price, plus room to upgrade as your Magento site grows.

Prices are in NZD and exclude GST.
COMPARE PLANS

Not sure what you need? Ask our team.

Getting started with Magento

  1. Order a Managed cPanel VPS plan, or log in to your existing Hoopla cPanel account.
  2. Open Softaculous Apps Installer in cPanel and search for Magento.
  3. Choose the domain to install on, set your admin username, password and email, then click Install.
  4. Contact us so we can recommend a VPS size and make sure OpenSearch is set up for your store.
  5. Install Magento from Softaculous, or have your developer deploy it with Composer over SSH.
  6. Set up Magento's cron jobs in cPanel and configure caching for best performance.

Magento Hosting FAQs

Can I run Magento on shared web hosting?

Current versions of Magento need OpenSearch and more memory than shared hosting provides. We recommend a Managed cPanel VPS, which still gives you cPanel and Softaculous.

Can you migrate my existing Magento store?

Yes. Contact us with details of your store and our team will help plan the move to a suitable VPS.

Is there a lighter alternative to Magento?

For smaller stores, WooCommerce, PrestaShop and OpenCart run well on our standard web hosting plans.

What is the difference between Magento Open Source and Adobe Commerce?

Magento Open Source is the free edition. Adobe Commerce is Adobe's paid edition with extra B2B and marketing features and its own hosting. Our VPS plans are for Magento Open Source.

What size VPS do I need for Magento?

It depends on your catalogue size, traffic and extensions. Contact us with those details and we will recommend a starting point that can be upgraded as you grow.

Related applications

PrestaShop

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WooCommerce

Turn a WordPress site into a full online store.

OpenCart

A lightweight, easy-to-run online store.

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Ready to launch Magento?

Choose a plan, or contact our team and we can help you pick the right one.