You may be able to achieve this with some .htaccess tricks but it can be hard to maintain and difficult to ensure that it doesn't break anything. Is there a specific reason that you want it to be done this way? ... View more

Are you familiar with how to setup and manage servers?    GCP instances are basically servers in the cloud so you will need to know how to setup, optimize and manage servers from scratch in order to host your Magento store on it.  ... View more

What plan were you under when you were with Aspiration Hosting? Was it a Cloud Server as well? What amount of RAM were you allocated with? Also, did you try to work with them on the slowness issue?    One thing to point out is Aspiration Hosting uses LiteSpeed Web Server which is a very resource efficient web server and that may be one of the contributing factor to the lower RAM usage when compared to your server with SiteGround.  ... View more

@letssewllc wrote: I know about the whole https thing, our site only does that where it takes customer information. Probably will at some point change it to everything. You may want to switch everything over to HTTPS sooner rather than later as Google now prioritizes HTTPS over HTTP websites in their search rankings.  ... View more

@tamara_plancke wrote: CDN is being used indeed. What are the risks of disabling this? Can it just be disabled for a couple of minutes and see what happens after? There's no risk to disable the CDN. You may experience slight slowdown if that is the main purpose of your CDN.    You can disable the CDN for a few minutes to see if it makes any difference and then re-enable it after that.  ... View more

@Robert Rand wrote: James Lee, who responded earlier, shared a link in his comment that includes several affiliate links. This includes Aspiration Hosting, which he founded. I'm not a fan of affiliate links, and I'm not sure if moderators will leave his link in his post as commercial advertising is usually scrubbed from these forums, but hopefully, as a Magento Master and founder of a hosting company, he's shared some good ideas. Robert, I did not share any link in my comment at all as commercial advertising are not allowed to be posted in comments which I'm sure you are aware by now.   The link you see is in my forum signature and it is linked to my own personal website, which does contain the necessary disclosure in every page of the website.  ... View more

If you're just looking for something to play around with Magento 2, a Magento optimized shared hosting should suffice for your needs.    I do suggest that you go with a provider who is specialized with Magento so in case you face any issues, they will be able to assist you with the problems.  ... View more

35MB is definitely too small for the database backup. It should at least be a few hundreds of Megabytes. While you are at it, make sure to get backup of your files as well, not just the database. Do you have access to your server or hosting control panel? If you do, you should be able to take the backup yourself or migrate all data to your new server. ... View more

What version of mod_pagespeed are you using?    As of version 1.10 mod_pagespeed should work with HTTPS out of the box as HTTPS fetching (mod_pagespeed) is enabled by default.    If you are using an older version, you can follow the guide below to get it to work with HTTPS:- https://www.modpagespeed.com/doc/https_support ... View more

So what you are saying is MageMojo is forcing you off your current plan and getting you to move to their Stratus plan? That seem a bit odd. I wouldn't recommend A2Hosting or Inmotion as both of them are not specialized in Magento so their servers may not be properly optimized for Magento and you may face difficulties when you need any assistance for any Magento related matters or issues. ... View more

There are quite a few managed AWS hosting, some tailored for Magento while some don't.    If your client is looking for a managed hosting provider, I suggest that you do not limit yourself to just AWS as there are quite a few managed hosting providers around who are tailored for Magento.  ... View more

Are you looking for a fully managed solution where the provider will handle both infrastructure and server management or are you looking for a self-managed solution where the provider only handles infrastructure while you handle the server management side?    Based on your examples, AWS is self-managed and it is very different from managed providers like Nexcess or MageMojo.  ... View more

Is this a Managed or Unmanaged VPS? Is your server and specifically Apache tuned and optimized for Magento? ... View more

How many products / SKUs do you have?    What sort of hosting solutions are you on?  ... View more

Is the VPS managed or unmanaged? If you are not very familiar with server tuning and optimization, it may be a good idea to go with a managed server (VPS, Cloud or Dedicated Server) and especially with hosting providers who are familiar with Magento so they can tune and optimize the server to suit your environment. ... View more

You should definitely go with something that is easily scalable so you can scale up whenever you need to. While CPU and RAM is important, the software level tuning and optimization is also very important as that'll make all the difference in terms of performance of your Magento 2 store. A badly tuned highly specs server can perform worse than a well tuned lower specs server. ... View more

To clarify, a Cloud Server is usually just a VPS server with varying level of underlying architecture. Some Cloud Servers are basically just VPS rebranded as "Cloud" while there are also those who have real High Availability and redundancy built-in. Do you already have an existing Magento 1 / Magento 2 store or are you just starting out? ... View more

IMHO it would make a lot more sense to offload the static contents to a Content Delivery Network (CDN) instead. ... View more

It does sound like you have quite a lot of files or directories for such a small number of products. Did your hosting provider tell you which directories have the highest number of files? You need to know that to be able to find a solution to the problem. ... View more

You may want to try re-copying all the files over again to ensure that nothing is missing.    You should also ensure that your new host's environment is setup properly for Magento beforehand.  ... View more

Try checking the PHP Version at your new host and see if it matches the one from your old host. Some of the errors in your website may be attributed to your site being incompatible with PHP 7.2. ... View more

Your website looks fine on my end. What errors are you seeing? ... View more

There are many possible causes to a website slowdown and some of them includes:- Server level software not properly tuned or optimized for Magento 2 Maxing out your resources like CPU and RAM Customizations, extensions and/or themes slowing things down A high number of traffic or products/SKUs How many products/SKUs do you have?    Are you anywhere near to the CPU and RAM limit of the server?    You may be able to find out the cause of the slowness of your Magento 2 store by using the built-in Magento profiling tool and also test your website with speed test tools like GTMetrix and WebPageTest. ... View more

It is generally time to upgrade your hosting / hardware if you experience slowness or performance issues that cannot be fixed with software level optimizations.    Your store doesn't sound too big so I will suggest that you go with a Magento focused provider who has a smaller plan but has the ability to let you scale up and upgrade when your store grows.    The type of hosting service to go with will also depends on your budget. If your budget is low, you can start with shared hosting or basic cloud hosting (make sure the provider is focused in Magento) and if you have a higher budget, consider a Managed VPS or Managed Cloud Server right away.  ... View more

Most managed servers charge a fixed price depending on which plan you go with. The only managed company I know of that charges based on pay per use is Magemojo with their Stratus plan. ... View more

What OS are you running in the VPS and is it Managed or Unmanaged?  ... View more

This depends on your hosting or server environment.    For servers that are more securely configured, they are usually set to 644 or 640 for files and 755 or 750 for directories.    I wouldn't recommend using 666 or 777 as they are very insecure.  ... View more

Yes, of course it is possible. There are quite a few guides online that you can follow which will teach you how to set it up and if you face any issues, come back to the Magento Forums and our members may be able to assist you with them.  ... View more