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• 10 Ways to Speed Up Your Magento eCommerce Site

  Is your Magento store not quite as fast as you would like it to be? Below you will find our Top 10 Tips & Tricks to speed up your Magento site....

• Advanced LiteMage Cache Configuration and Troubleshooting

  LiteMage is configured to work with the majority of Magento stores out of the box, however, in some cases additional configuration is needed to...

• How can I transfer my Magento store from another provider?

  If your store is currently hosted on another server, you may transfer it to us following these simple steps. If you have not yet signed up, please...

• How to change the Magento Admin URL / Path

  To protect your Magento backend against hackers and brute-force attacks, we recommend that you change the default URL to the Magento Admin Panel....

• How to clear the Magento cache?

  When making certain changes to Magento, such as modifying code files, it is necessary to clear the cache in order for the changes to become...

• How to Enable and Configure LiteMage Cache in Magento

  Quick Overview LiteMage Cache, developed specifically for Magento by LiteSpeed Technologies, is the world's fastest Magento full page cache....

• How to enable APC cache in Magento

  We are no longer supporting APC on our servers because of stability issues. Please consider using Memcached (recommended) or XCache instead. By...

• How to enable Memcached in Magento

  Memcached is a free and open-source, high-performance, distributed memory caching system intended for use in speeding up dynamic web applications....

• How to enable XCache in Magento

  By default, Magento stores the cache on the file system. This is not optimized for performance as disk IO is usually a large bottleneck in any...

• How to fix "Call to a member function toHtml() on a non-object" in Magento 1.4

  Have you upgraded your Magento store to Magento 1.4.x, only to see the following error message in the error logs? PHP Fatal error:  Call to a...

• How to fix error with Magento Backup Tool in version 1.3.2.x

  A lot of our clients have reported a problem with the built-in database Backup Tool in Magento version 1.3.2.x, caused by a bug in a Magento core...

• How to Install Extendware Full Page Cache for Magento

  In this article we will look at how we leverage the Full Page Cache extension from Extendware to speed up Magento and improve page loading times. A...

• How to make Magento work with PHP 5.3

  Magento versions prior to 1.4 are not compatible with PHP 5.3, resulting in errors like the below: Fatal error: Method Varien_Object::__tostring()...

• How to Reset File Permissions for Magento

  On our hosting servers, PHP run as suEXEC which means that no special file permissions are needed to run Magento. If you have transferred your site...

• How to set up the Magento cron job / scheduled tasks

  The Magento cron job is responsible for processing all scheduled/periodic tasks for your store, such as: Update Catalog Price rules Generating...

• How to Setup Magento with Multiple Stores and Domains

  One of the useful features in Magento is the ability to create multiple stores/websites that share the same Magento installation. This allows...

• How to Upgrade Magento through SSH

  In this tutorial you will learn how to upgrade Magento using SSH (Secure Shell) and a staging site.IMPORTANT: Always create a backup of your store...

• Magento Installation Guide

  In this tutorial we will quickly go through the steps necessary to install the Magento Commerce application on one of our Magento...

• Magento Upgrade Tutorial

  Upgrading your Magento store to a new version is most easily done using the Magento Connect Manager. Step 1: Log in to Magento Connect Manager...

• What is Magento?

  From Magentocommerce.com: Magento is a feature-rich, professional open-source eCommerce solution that offers merchants complete flexibility and...