Magento Hosting Requirements

Magento Hosting is a web hosting which meets all Magento Hosting requirements. Luckily hosting providers understand that Magento is a fast-developing e-commerce application. So new Magento Hosting providers appear here and there. The most important is to choose the most reliable Magento Hosting provider.
So let’s see what Magento Hosting requirements are:
Supported Operating Systems:

• Linux x86, x86-64

Supported Web Servers:

• Apache 1.3.x
• Apache 2.0.x
• Apache 2.2.x

Supported Browsers:

• Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 and above
• Mozilla Firefox 2.0 and above
• Apple Safari 2.x
• Adobe Flash browser plug-in should be installed

PHP Compatibility:

• 5.2.0 and above
• Required extensions:

1. PDO_MySQL
2. simplexml
3. mcrypt
4. hash
5. GD
6. DOM
7. iconv
8. SOAP (if Webservices API is to be used)

• Safe_mode off
• Memory_limit 32M or more

MySQL:

• 4.1.20 or newer
• InnoDB storage engine

SSL:

• If HTTPS is used to work in the admin, SSL certificate should be valid. Self-signed SSL certificates are not supported

Server – hosting – setup:

• Ability to run scheduled jobs (crontab) with PHP 5
• Ability to override options in .htaccess files