The system requirements to run Magento are typically not found with most hosting companies. Here is a partial list of hosting companies that meet or exceed the system requirements to run Magento. I’ve also included a list of what it takes to run Magento so you can do your own comparisons.

Bluehost.com.

I use Bluehost for many of my sites and they have been a very good provider and I am completely satisfied with their services. They currently have a “one click installation” script to get your Magento site running automatically. They have very affordable packages and lots of unlimited features that are standard. I highly recommend this hosting provider.

Hostmonster.com

300 Gigabytes of Hosting Space - Host UNLIMITED Domains on 1 account for no extra cost - 5000 Pop/Imap Email Accounts - SSH Access (Secure Shell) - 3,000 Gigs of Transfer - SSL, FTP, Stats, CGI, Ruby (RoR), Perl, PHP, MYSQL, Front Page Extensions, Free Domain Forever, Free Site Builder, Free Search Engine Submission - Best Support in the Industry

Dreamhost.com

Dreamhost is an employee owned hosting company that has very competitive hosting services. You can run your Magento installation here.

NEXCESS.NET Web Hosting

NEXCESS.NET specializes in hosting Magento-driven websites on its shared and dedicated web hosting plans, and has now become a .Platinum Partner. with Magento, as of April 15th. NEXCESS.NET currently hosts more than fifty Magento installations on their shared and dedicated hosting service.

System Requirements

At the base level, Magento will require the following software:

• Supported Operating Systems:
  • Linux x86, x86-64
• Supported Web Servers:
  • Apache 1.3.x
  • Apache 2.0.x
  • Apache 2.2.x
• Supported Browsers:
  • Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 and above
  • Mozilla Firefox 2.0 and above
  • Apple Safari 2.x
  • Adobe Flash browser plug-in should be installed
• PHP Compatibility:
  • 5.2.0 and above
  • Required extensions:
    • PDO_MySQL
    • simplexml
    • mcrypt
    • hash
    • GD
    • DOM
    • iconv
  • Safe_mode off
  • Memory_limit 32M or more
• MySQL:
  • 4.1.20 or newer
  • InnoDB storage engine
• SSL:
  • If HTTPS is used to work in the admin, SSL certificate should be valid. Self-signed SSL certificates are not supported
• Server - hosting - setup:
  • Ability to run scheduled jobs (crontab) with PHP 5
  • Ability to override options in .htaccess files

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