E-commerce Hosting
Web Hosting for Your Store
If your online store is already making a significant contribution to your business success or you want to expand your Internet business, you need a partner who is an expert in e-commerce and knows all the technical requirements inside out.
Are you not just looking for someone to carry out regular program updates for you, but a contact partner who understands your e-commerce hosting requirements and implements them in concrete measures? With Blackbit, you have an experienced digital commerce agency at your side that masters the disciplines of advertising, marketing and web design as well as the technology for this.
The continuous development of online stores places special demands on hosting. This is because today's market and customers demand much faster development and short-term implementation, both of comprehensive new solutions and small changes. Operation and development must run simultaneously and interlock in a meaningful way. The previously opposing principles of agility and stability must be productively combined.
DevOps Synchronizes Development & Operation
Amazon Web Services via DevOps
"DevOps is a combination of mindsets, practices and tools that enable organizations to deliver applications and services faster and easier. It allows products to be developed and improved in less time than companies that rely on traditional software development and infrastructure management processes. This speed advantage enables companies to better serve their customers and compete more effectively in the marketplace." (AWS)
Blackbit is an Amazon Reseller and member of the AWS Partner Network. As your hosting partner, we also make the techniques and principles of DevOps available for the store hosting of your webshop - regardless of which e-commerce system the store runs under.
Container-Based Managed Hosting via Kubernetes Cluster
We are revolutionizing our hosting based on the Kubernetes open source platform to optimize e-commerce hosting for your website.
Kubernetes is a portable, extensible, open-source platform for managing containerized workloads and services that facilitates both declarative configuration and automation. It has a large, rapidly growing ecosystem. Kubernetes services, support and tools are now widely available (https://kubernetes.io/en). Google made the Kubernetes project available as an open source project in 2014. Kubernetes builds on a decade and a half of Google's experience, combined with the most useful ideas and best practices from the community.
Top Performance in Hosting, Low Effort in Store Operation
Instead of relying solely on dedicated servers, we rely on container-based hosting. This hosting solution minimizes our and your efforts and conserves valuable resources.
Containers are run on the basis of Kubernetes Cluster (https://kubernetes.io/). These containers are created by our developers and contain the operating system and all software packages required to run your e-commerce platform and desired add-ons in a stable manner. Our developers work on your local working environments with the same container that is also executed on the server in e-commerce hosting. This reduces the lead times for setting up development environments and there are no surprises when updating the live server because the development environment and production environment differ (e.g. due to different PHP versions).
Blackbit is an Amazon reseller and member of the AWS partner network. As your hosting partner, we also make the techniques and principles of DevOps available for the store hosting of your web store - regardless of which e-commerce system the store is running on.
Our SysOps operate independently running Kubernetes clusters. The resources required for operation, such as hardware, hard disk storage, domains and SSL certificates, are monitored and controlled centrally via Kubernetes. So-called controller units ensure the stable operation of your e-commerce store and all connected applications. If a server fails, Kubernetes starts a new one. If a certificate expires, it is renewed by the controller. Kubernetes also performs all other actions required to restore a functioning web application after an error.
Thanks to this mechanism, we can easily scale hosting performance for you. For example, an application can be run multiple times to increase performance or protect it from failures. To do this, additional servers are started and additional hard disk capacity is provided. This allows several containers to be operated simultaneously. The traffic is distributed between the individual instances of the application in this way.
Blackbit is an Amazon reseller and member of the AWS partner network. As your hosting partner, we also make the techniques and principles of DevOps available for the store hosting of your web store - regardless of which e-commerce system the store runs under.
Performance: Exclusive Know-How and Cutting-Edge Technology for Short Loading Times
Speed is extremely important in e-commerce. If the loading time of a page exceeds three seconds, current statistics show that 57% of consumers leave the online store. 80% of these visitors will never visit the store again. The Google search engine also takes the response time of websites into account and penalizes long loading times with a poorer ranking.
Visitor numbers, product range size, category structure, template programming, PHP version, server equipment and configuration: many factors determine the speed of your online store. If you opt for managed cloud hosting with Blackbit, we will first put your store through its paces before we take over the hosting. As a result, you will receive recommendations from us for optimizing your online store. You can implement these recommendations in full or in part. Once this has been done, the determined speed values, among other things, serve as the basis for our monitoring.
Reliability: Automatic Backups and 24/7 Monitoring
Our databases are operated in a cluster, replicated and backed up daily. In the event of a host system failure, an automatic failover takes place. To ensure that performance always remains stable, our applications are operated in clustered containers. Thanks to this solution, your store is shielded from other applications and a "noisy neighbor" cannot disrupt the operation of your store. The speed and other key performance indicators agreed with you for your online store are monitored around the clock, seven days a week. If the measured values leave a corridor defined with you, our team automatically takes action.
Support for Your Store: Reliable Support Around the Clock
Whether Shopware, CoreShop, Pimcore or any other store system, you can rely on powerful technology developed by Google that makes hosting for large online stores less susceptible to disruptions, attacks and technical failures. As a Blackbit customer, you as a store operator benefit from the expertise of our support team of permanently employed web hosting specialists.
Do you value security, guaranteed response and resolution times? Then we can offer you a service level agreement with our support contracts. You can find more information about our service and support contracts here. We will be happy to answer your questions and provide you with an individual offer based on our framework agreements.
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The best advice - from platform selection to e-commerce marketing
We have proven partner technologies for every e-commerce requirement - and experts who are on hand to provide you with help and advice. We develop strategies, set up your online store, ensure high-performance, secure hosting and support you in marketing your products.
Which e-commerce platform or online store is suitable for my e-business?
The all-in-one e-commerce solution with integrated payment and low entry barriers is popular worldwide.
Continuously developed over many years, the tried-and-tested store system now offers a wide range of functions.
Experienced e-commerce player with a new foundation: As a store system made in Germany, Shopware is particularly well suited to the DACH region.
Challenger in headless commerce: The store system for small and medium-sized companies is growing in Europe and Asia.
Today, marketing measures are predominantly implemented online. The Internet has therefore become the leading medium for most of our customers.