The Stack That Makes
Magento Actually Fast.

Every visitor, every request, every product page — NGINX handles it before PHP is ever involved. It serves your CSS, images, and JavaScript files directly from disk, bypassing PHP entirely for static assets. The result: your store handles significantly higher concurrent traffic with less server strain. It supports HTTP/2 for parallel browser downloads and HTTP/3 for faster connections on mobile. Adobe names NGINX as required for production Magento instances.

Varnish stores complete page snapshots in memory. When the next visitor arrives, they get the cached copy — PHP never runs, the database never queries. Adobe's own documentation states: "Magento highly recommends using Varnish as the full page cache server. The built-in page cache should be used for development only." Adobe ships Magento with Varnish configuration files specifically written for its architecture. We configure the VCL for your store's checkout flow, customer groups, and cache invalidation rules — not the generic defaults.

Redis holds customer sessions, shopping carts, and backend data in RAM instead of reading from disk on every request. Checkout feels instant because the session lookup takes microseconds, not milliseconds. Adobe recommends two separate Redis instances: one for sessions, one for cache. We run exactly that — they don't share memory or compete for resources. Sub-millisecond reads, no disk I/O bottlenecks, snappy admin panel.

Since Magento 2.4.4, OpenSearch is Adobe's required search engine — MySQL-based search is no longer viable for production stores. When a customer types in the search bar and filters by size, colour, and price, OpenSearch returns results in milliseconds — even for 50,000+ SKU catalogues with complex layered navigation. MySQL search degrades significantly at scale and cannot power layered navigation reliably. OpenSearch is indexed specifically for your store's attributes and configured to match your catalogue structure.

Every database query — every order, every product, every customer record — touches storage. NVMe drives communicate directly over PCIe rather than through SATA controllers. Read speeds of 3,500 MB/s versus 550 MB/s on standard SSDs — roughly six times faster. Background Magento cron jobs finish quicker, admin operations are faster, and cold cache loads (after deployments or restarts) recover in seconds. All EveryHost servers run NVMe as standard.

PHP runs Magento's application logic. PHP 8.4 is measurably faster than older versions — Adobe tests and certifies each release before adding it to Magento's system requirements. OPcache keeps Magento's code pre-compiled in memory so thousands of PHP files don't need re-parsing on every page load. Adobe's recommended OPcache settings for Magento are specific — 512MB memory allocation, 60,000 accelerated files. We apply these settings. We stay current with Adobe's PHP version requirements.