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But why should you even consider Magento Commerce Cloud as an option for your e-commerce store in the first place? What makes it any better than JetRails or Rackspace or even... Magento Commerce?
What are its biggest selling points?
And are there any reported downsides so far? Any drawbacks to consider and to weigh against its upsides before making your final choice?
Now, let's get you some answers:
Some might just reduce it to this basic formula:
Magento Commerce + bundled hosting (or cloud infrastructure)
Yet, I'm not one of “some”, so my definition would be:
It's a full-managed, automated hosting platform for Magento Commerce — the once Enterprise Cloud Edition — that ships with some additional powerful features.
Now, let me try and point out some of these features:
Now, let's put its biggest selling points into the spotlight! Those benefits powerful enough to influence your decision and to make you opt for this cloud-powered e-commerce solution:
Of all the Magento Commerce Cloud features, this must be one of the most “luring” ones:
No more “out of stock” scenarios.
At least not on your web store, since this feature allows you to always be one step ahead of customer demand and to... restock.
Another one of Magento Commerce Cloud's biggest selling points is its impressive marketplace of extensions.
From:
… you get to select from a huge ecosystem of add-ons to create a feature-rich, highly interactive shopping experience across your store.
Thinking about reaching out also to those potential customers who don't (always) benefit from fast-speed internet connection? Thinking about building a PWA for your online store?
Good news: MCC is designed precisely with such a challenge in mind. It makes the best option for powering a PWA development plan.
The hosting platform's built to accommodate the needs of both big retailers and small e-commerce businesses.
And, in this respect, I should add 2 specific features that translate into enhanced scalability:
All the enhancements that Magento Commerce Cloud comes packed with bubble up to the user experience: both the “staff” user and the end-user.
Meaning that all the tasks included in the store management process and the shopping process are well thought-out to be... highly intuitive.
Planning to go... global? Don't let your hosting platform stop you!
In this respect, Magento Commerce Cloud allows you to:
And you get to run all your “globalization through localization” type of operations, to orchestrate your entire multi-site architecture, from one single point of management.
Note: speed and agility are 2 additional benefits that you can “reap” from using a cloud-based hosting platform; they become crucial when you want to enter new markets at high speed.
Just imagine: a tool incorporated into your hosting platform “in charge” with everything... quotation-related.
You can skip that time-consuming sequence of operations aimed at setting a price for a product.
Magento Commerce Cloud provides you, right out of the box, with a tool to optimize your images and to boost your page loading speed...
Another great news is that it “plays well” with full managed services. From Redis to MySQL, to RabbitMQ, to Elasticsearch, it allows you to easily incorporate the service of your choice.
For, although this managed platform is still relatively new and so we can't yet be talking about a whole “pile” of user reviews, the reported drawbacks gravitate around the same issues:
Most of the Magento Commerce Cloud users have signaled it: support is slow. Therefore, expect to be put on a lengthy waiting list till you can actually get hold of a hosting engineer.
Do you need permission changes? Is there a hosting issue that you're “grappling with” and you need the support of someone with expertise in platform.sh?
You might need to invest a bit more time than predicted to get the support you need.
Not everyone's thrilled about the Platform.sh technology that MCC runs on.
Quite enough users have reported that each time they need to:
… the underlying system takes too long to process. And, during all this time, their online stores are... down.
More time and "X" times more effort. At least that's what some of the users say.
The END!
Does this answer your question(s)?
Are these benefits and drawbacks solid enough to help you decide whether Magento Commerce Cloud is the best option for your online store?
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