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Pssst…. Magento is going into the cloud!

Sometimes I’m just wondering around online, try some stuff here and there and most of the time nothing happens. But sometimes things do happen. Today I discovered a new project from Magento Inc…

Magento: Project Stratus

What is it? This is what the FAQ says about the project:

Project Stratus is Magento’s next-generation on-demand eCommerce platform. At its core, Stratus is an online version of our award-winning eCommerce platform. Everything you already know and love about the Magento platform is available with this hosted service. Stratus creates more choice for merchants to select the product and platform that best fits their needs. Stratus will empower merchants and developers to customize, modify, extend and integrate a hosted store as if it were their own code running on their own servers … an unprecedented capability in the market today.

If you go to stratus.magento.com you’ll see the landing page for the cloud service that Magento Inc. is working on. You can subscribe to newsletter updates, enter an invite key and request one.

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The beta program will run into “early 2011″. I don’t know how many invites they’re going to accept so I immediately applied for an invite and I’d suggest you do the same. I’ll keep you posted when the invite gets accepted.

Of course there are more questions then answers at this time, but I think an official cloud service for Magento will be a really cool and logical addition to the Magento product portfolio! Following their relationship with Rackspace, I’d suspect that Project Stratus will run on their servers.

Since I can’t find any mentions from Magento Inc. about this Project Stratus it think this might me still a little bit of a secret project, so don’t tell them you got it from me ok…? :)

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By Guido Jansen on October 21st, 2010   /   Other   /   10 Comments
  • Aldo

    I honestly do not see the benefit of cloud computing for magento shops.

    • Nick

      You could put a load of web servers behind a load balancer, while you host the database on a dedicated server. Also, you could have a bunch of memcached servers on the cloud. It’s all about coping with varying demand.

    • Nick

      You could put a load of web servers behind a load balancer, while you host the database on a dedicated server. Also, you could have a bunch of memcached servers on the cloud. It’s all about coping with varying demand.

      • AKorolyov

        Magento have a lot of performance issues, based on bad architecture. In this case you should pay for software and hardware. One small question what about customizations?

        • http://www.gxjansen.com Guido Jansen

          As can beready in the Stratus FAQ: “Stratus will empower merchants and developers to customize, modify, extend and integrate a hosted store as if it were their own code running on their own servers … an unprecedented capability in the market today”

          So apparently there will be room for customization for developers, but no idea how far that will exactly go.

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  • Info

    That sounds amazing!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_H4DWB7CKHEDNY3YSRTWPODI7V4 da m

    We’ve seen Magento running poorly in both Media Temple and Rackspace cloud customers. The backend storage architecture of the cloud does not work well with Magento’s DB schema. To make it run would require a solution so expensive it wouldn’t be profitable.

    What about Varien support? Have you ever dealt with that company? If so there’s no way you’d put your hosting in their hands. That alone ensures third party hosting companies specializing in Magento will still have some business.

    Having said all that, I’m sure it will catch the eye of all Magento owners who will try it out. It will be interesting to see how long it takes for customers to riot and if Varien will censor their forums to hide the disgruntled customers.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_QNESGZ2WYDO5S6BQW4LB2ZNLPM Chris Reid

    Surely with the fame as to what then products of Magneto have been able to go for and get along with what all it can go for and result for an online business. There surely is no stopping Magento….

    Magneto Themes

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