Hosting a Magento 2 system may seem simple. But there’s a huge gap between best practices and bad ideas. Here’s a technical and pragmatic guide to laying a clean and stable infrastructure foundation. 🌐 Web Server: Why Nginx is Better Than Apache Nginx is based on...
When your Magento 2 site is running with Varnish properly configured, every page is served by the Full Page Cache (FPC), without PHP execution or database. It’s fast, it’s clean, but… how do you display custom elements like: the customer name in...
We’ve all heard it before: “PHP is dead, no one uses that anymore…” 🙄 And yet… PHP 8.4 and 8.5 are delivering some of the most exciting features we’ve seen in years. 🔧 Property Hooks in PHP 8.4 This one is chef’s kiss — you can now group a property with its...
What is Varnish? Varnish is a high-performance HTTP reverse proxy designed to cache and serve web content extremely fast.It sits between the client (browser) and your backend server (like nginx or Apache), and serves cached responses without having to hit PHP or MySQL...
Redis: a fast, in-memory ally Redis is a lightweight key-value store running in memory, widely used for caching, sessions, queues, and real-time data handling. Magento 2 doesn’t require Redis, but it definitely benefits from it — especially when you’re working...
