Managed Magento 2
Hosting UK

Magento 2 generates pages dynamically, which means every product page, category page, and CMS block hits PHP and MySQL unless cached. Varnish sits in front of the web server and serves cached pages to visitors without touching the application layer. This turns a 2-second page load into 200 milliseconds.

Varnish configuration for Magento is not straightforward. Cache invalidation has to respect customer groups, pricing rules, cart contents, and logged-in state. Get it wrong and customers see cached checkout pages or stale prices. EveryHost runs Magento-specific Varnish configurations that balance speed with accuracy. The result is fast page loads without breaking dynamic content.

Magento 2 stores customer sessions and backend cache data. By default it uses file-based storage, which does not scale. Redis is an in-memory data store that handles session lookups and cache reads at microsecond speed. This is critical during checkout when every second of latency increases cart abandonment.

EveryHost runs Redis for both session storage and backend cache across all Magento hosting plans. It is configured and monitored as part of the stack. If Redis goes down, Magento falls back gracefully, but that has not happened in years because we monitor it continuously.

Magento 2's native MySQL-based catalogue search is slow and limited. OpenSearch (the open-source continuation of Elasticsearch) provides fast, relevant search results even for stores with tens of thousands of SKUs. It handles complex queries, layered navigation, and autocomplete without grinding the database to a halt.

OpenSearch integration is included in all EveryHost Magento plans. It is indexed automatically and re-syncs on catalogue changes. Customers searching for products get results in milliseconds, not seconds. That directly impacts conversion rates because people do not wait for slow search.

Every Magento store is a target. Admin panels get brute forced. Checkout forms get scraped. XML-RPC endpoints get probed. Payment data gets targeted. Generic firewalls catch the obvious attacks but miss the Magento-specific ones because they do not understand the platform's attack surface.

Sentinel is EveryHost's proprietary web application firewall built specifically for Magento 2. It uses pattern recognition trained on over 14 years of Magento-specific attack data. Sentinel knows what a legitimate Magento admin login looks like and what a credential-stuffing attack looks like. It knows the difference between a customer checking out and a bot scraping payment forms.

Sentinel integrates with the rest of the stack. It works alongside Varnish, Redis, and OpenSearch to provide defence without breaking functionality. It reduces false positives because it understands Magento's behaviour. And because it is AI-assisted, it adapts to new attack patterns without waiting for manual rule updates.

Security is not an add-on at EveryHost. It is built into the infrastructure.