Our managed hosting architecture for your Magento / Mage-OS shop!
by shop owners for shop owners.
Our Magento hosting architecture delivers performance, scalability and security — for both small and large Magento / Mage-OS shops, even when traffic skyrockets on Black Friday or during the Christmas rush!
We design, build and operate the hosting architecture for your Magento / Mage-OS online shop!
Magento Hosting Architecture Example 1
Architecture Example 1 is essentially our standard solution and is designed so that it can be quickly expanded with additional VMs or upgraded to Example 2.
Magento Hosting Architecture Example 2
Architecture Example 2 offers even greater reliability and is designed to handle very high traffic volumes.
How we implement the Magento / Mage-OS Hosting Architecture.
What we actually do — honest, no buzzwords.
1. Concept
1. Concept
We analyse what your shop needs and design the right architecture. Size, components, scalability, multi-country — everything individually configured from our architecture toolkit.
2. Infrastructure
2. Infrastructure
The architecture requires matching infrastructure — this can be a virtualised dedicated server or cloud VPS distributed across multiple sites. Hardware maintenance and replacement is handled by the provider you contract with directly.
3. Setup
3. Setup
We prepare the infrastructure — for example, through a Proxmox installation or the provisioning of individual cloud servers — and tailor the prefabricated architecture components to your Magento shop. Monitoring included.
4. Migration
4. Migration
We migrate your existing shop cleanly onto the new architecture. DB takeover, configuration adjustments, an upstream test phase and minimal downtime are a given.
5. Operation & Maintenance
5. Operation & Maintenance
Following a successful migration, every infrastructure and architecture requires maintenance, updates and optimisations. Billed according to time and requirement.
Options
Options
On-call availability outside office hours, dev environment including CI/CD pipelines, and much more.
How much.
Below, we’ve outlined the costs for the most commonly used architectures. Specific figures depend on size, complexity and the desired setup, and may vary according to requirements.
Architecture Example 1
Example configuration at Hetzner:
1× EX63 (192 GB RAM), 2× CCX13, 1× CCX23, Cloud Backup, BX11, as of 15.05.2026
Provisioning and alignment of the architecture with the infrastructure
- Initial configurationFirewall/WAF, Domains, SFTP, Migration, …approx. 8 hrs, one-off
- Maintenance / UpdateOS, OPNsense, WAFapprox. 1 hr per month
Architecture Example 2
Example configuration at Hetzner:
2× EX63 (192 GB RAM), 6× CCX13, 1× CCX23, 2× CCX33, Cloud Backup, 2× BX11, as of 15.05.2026
Provisioning and alignment of the architecture with the infrastructure
- Initial configurationFirewall/WAF, Domains, SFTP, Migration, …approx. 8 hrs, one-off
- Maintenance / UpdateOS, OPNsense, WAFapprox. 2 hrs per month
Optional
Provision of monitoring including availability outside business hours, at weekends and on public holidays. Learn more.
Additional effort billed on an hourly basis.
Magento maintenance, updates, security patches, performance optimisations, security audits, GDPR matters, etc. Learn more.
based on time
Bespoke customisations, modules / extensions / add-ons. Learn more.
based on time
All prices net, plus VAT.
Who we are.
Do you know that feeling of being left in the lurch by your hosting provider when things get critical — only to be met with a string of excuses afterwards?
We know it all too well! We’ve been running several large Magento shops ourselves for over 16 years, and during that time we’ve heard plenty of fine promises from hosting providers — and, thank goodness, seen them vanish into thin air often enough. Yes, thank goodness: that was exactly the impetus we needed to get seriously to grips with Magento, architecture and hosting.
That’s exactly what the polar bear in our logo stands for: alone in a harsh environment — and yet you still make it through. We are polar bears!
It’s been a long journey. But at some point we realised: all we really need is a hosting provider that supplies decent hardware. Going to the data centre isn’t Louis’s thing. Luisa prefers Magento to Shopware. And Paul likes hardware. And people. But that’s beside the point here.
We’re a small team. PARC Network stands for Process and Research Centre — and that’s exactly what we do: thinking through processes, researching architectures, sharing what works. PARC Network is our second main focus alongside the Magento shops we run ourselves. That’s exactly why we don’t want just any customer — we want partners on an equal footing. The sort from whom we can also learn, even beyond Magento hosting.
We want to run your Magento, install updates and see what tricks you’ve got up your sleeve. A lively exchange is important to us.
Our 10 Commandments.
So that no one has any false expectations.
- No Shopware, no WordPress, no Joomla & Co. — Magento 2 / Mage-OS is our speciality. But if you’d like to switch or migrate from another shop system (e.g. Shopware, WooCommerce, OXID, JTL) to Magento 2 / Mage-OS, we’d be interested to hear from you.
- No Magento Commerce / Adobe Commerce licensing. We work with Magento Open Source and Mage-OS — the community fork that continues to develop Magento independently of Adobe. No licence lock-in. But if you’d like to switch or migrate from Adobe Commerce to Magento Open Source, we’d love to hear from you.
- No Magento on AWS, Azure or Google Cloud. We rely on European providers and dedicated infrastructure — for GDPR sovereignty, the Cloud Act and to avoid vendor lock-in.
- No SLA promises, no response time guarantees. No one can monitor or enforce this 100% impartially — you can spend days comparing providers and doing research, only to find in the end that most issues are either covered by force majeure, scheduled maintenance, or not covered at all. And in the event of a loss? At best, a credit against a monthly fee; at worst, a few pence — neither ever covers the actual business loss. So we don’t promise it, but we do it as quickly as we possibly can.
- No 24/7 hotline for hardware emergencies. That’s the hosting provider’s responsibility — and good hosting providers don’t need us for that.
- No list prices, no S/M/L/XL packages, no clicking up or down on cores, RAM or storage in a configurator. We scale the architecture to suit your shop — with reserves. Even a TV advert at 8.15 pm is no problem.
- No sales team, no marketing budget. If you’re happy with us, we’d love a recommendation.
- No “Hyvä Hosting” — there’s no such thing. Hyvä is a front-end theme, not a hosting stack. We know our way around Hyvä, by the way — and you can use it anywhere anyway, not just with us.
- No AI marketing. Yes, we use AI in our work — but we don’t integrate proprietary “super-AI” cloud services into your architecture just to make the pitch sound modern.
- No ISO certificates, no wall of logos with client testimonials, no “Trusted Partner” seals. We’re not award hunters. We too have master’s degrees, bachelor’s degrees and other qualifications — but above all, we have over 16 years’ experience in Magento. Just have a chat with us and see for yourself.