Long anticipated, and now finally here: RabbitMQ! Our tech wizards added this hip feature during a quiet week after Christmas. What, you’ve never heard of RabbitMQ? Don’t worry, in this article we explain exactly what RabbitMQ is all about and how you can use it on Hypernode.
Hypernode is the first Magento cloud platform of its kind. A team of Magento specialists is completely focused on the Magento application, the way it behaves and how users work with it on a daily basis. Besides managing to deliver ultimate performance and security, Hypernode has successfully saved Magento developers heaps of time in their […]
With the advent of Magento 2, security patches are a thing of the past. If a critical security leak requires sealing, Magento offers a version update. What does the Magento community think? Does this make the developer’s life easier, or just create more problems? I did some research to find out, and I’d love to […]
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Three years ago we first alerted our Dutch clients to Black Friday; an originally American phenomenon. ‘You should do something with that next year!’ was our advice. It is currently one of the most important days of the year for us as a hosting provider. Our main goal is to provide such support to online […]
Yesterday Magento released version Magento 2.3 for both Magento Commerce and Magento Open Source. Magento 2.3 brings interesting new tools and features. Besides that, the new version offers bug fixes, security updates and performance improvements. In addition to this new release, there are also updates for Magento 1, Magento 2.1, and 2.2. These updates contain […]
Three weeks ago, it became apparent that approximately 20 frequently used Magento modules contained a safety leak. It turned out that the leak is heavily used by a hacker group named Magecart. We immediately reacted by implementing a configuration change to offer an initial protection for these vulnerable modules. Since the implementation, Hypernode blocked a […]
From this week on, 20 Dutch and Belgian Magento agencies have been certified as a Hypernode Certified Agency. 17 agencies received their certificate in 2017 and 2018, and 3 more agencies were added to the list this week. The full list of Hypernode Certified Agencies: 42Functions, Abovo Media, Bold Commerce, Cream, Elgentos, Experius, FRMWRK, Gerrits […]
Hypernode is a managed hosting platform, but at the same time we offer ridiculous flexibility and control. To make the management of your Hypernode even easier, we have been working on a Hypernode API and an expansion of the CLI tool over the past weeks. These changes make it possible to manage even more Hypernode […]
We are proud to announce Hypernode is Gold Sponsor of the international event MagentoLive 2018. This event will take place next week the 9th and 10th of October in Barcelona, Spain. Meet us in Barcelona next week! The Hypernode team will be present in Barcelona with a large delegation. We would love to meet you […]
Reliable web hosting is a critical part of building and maintaining a good website. Visitors want to have access to every part of your website at any time of the day or night. Therefore, the technical management of your site should always be in the best possible hands. An important, but sometimes overlooked aspect of […]
Adobe, recent new owner of ecommerce platform Magento, is about to end one of the most celebrated initiatives in open source ecommerce security: the bug bounty program. Magento introduced the bug bounty program a couple of years ago, presumably incentivized by the enormous damage Remote Code Execution vulnerability “Shoplift” caused. Reported critical bugs and vulnerabilities […]
These days, most online retailers know that it is vital to have a fast online store. And we could not agree more. However, we increasingly see that a store’s speed is rated above stability and reliability. We believe this to be unwise. What good is speed if you regularly end up offline? This article will […]
Progressive Web Apps (PWA) are a hot item in the current development landscape. Many people in the IT crowd are reading and thinking about them. But the thing is that there are not many real-life cases to properly showcase the technology yet. This is especially true for the European retail market. Therefore, it is worthwhile […]
Getting a change made in the code to live isn’t as simple and straightforward as it was. A few years back live editing with an FTP client was common. Nowadays, we have a wide range of more sophisticated methods to choose from that solves issues like multiple servers and working with Version Control that FTP […]
Being the owner of an online store, it is your responsibility to provide the customer with a safe online shopping experience. Since the 25th of may 2018, the safety responsibilities of store owners have increased because of the introduction of the European law: the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). This new law has significantly sharpened […]
Adobe has bought the popular e-commerce platform Magento for the tidy sum of $1.68 billion. A remarkable move, as this is the first time that Adobe, which has mainly focused on marketing solutions thus far, has acquired a true e-commerce player. For Adobe, Magento will form part of the Experience Cloud, an extensive cloud platform […]
Like no other hostingprovider we know about Magento-security. This makes Hypernode one of the most secure Magento platforms and has also led to the development of services like MageReport.com. We’ve now used our expertise to gain insight in the security of Magento installations on world’s most popular domains.
Extensions are a vital part of your Magento infrastructure. During the first couple of years following the release of Magento 2, a lot of people complained about the limited number of available extensions for the new platform. But that complaint doesn’t make sense anymore. The number of extensions compatible with Magento 2 has grown steadily […]
Hypernode is a VPS that is topped with a Magento platform and can be classified as a so-called PaaS (Platform as a Service). Hypernode can also be classified as a highly sophisticated Magento cloud platform. So what exactly sets our platform apart from other cloud solutions?
Thanks to the set-up of our Magento Cloud Platform Hypernode we have the ability to release new features and improvements on a weekly basis. This in turn benefits customer adaptability providing competitive advantages in a fast-paced Magento ecosystem. You can follow weekly changes to the platform via our Changelog and our Hypernode twitteraccount. In restrospect […]
Sometimes you think a problem is going to be really hard to solve, but it turns out to be pretty easy. A few weeks ago we started implementing a new feature for Hypernodes: Dedicated IP’s. This would make migrating and upgrading a lot easier for our customers because their node IP won’t change anymore. One […]
On Hypernode servers we do various things to filter out unnecessary work. Under normal load these mechanism aren’t really noticeable but once the web server is starting to hit its limit these optimizations can really make a difference in the performance of your Magento shop. In this context we recently released an optimization in how we […]
Bad bots make up 20% of all web traffic and are everywhere, at all times—they don’t take breaks, they don’t sleep, ever unwearying looking for the next website to invade. When it comes to the attractiveness of a website though, bad bots seem to have a type. Most of bad bots look for: proprietary content […]
Magento 2 was released in 2016 and is steadily on the rise in the ever-dynamic world of international e-commerce. Testing is finished and troublesome bugs have been eradicated. Besides that, many web stores have already successfully migrated to Magento 2.