Professional Magento Installation in a Nutshell

• Six community extensions that we have found to be the most useful ($300 value – we typically charge $50 per extension install)
• Performance optimization – Quick Cache extension, content compress, and miscellaneous configuration tweaks to improve your site’s performance ($89 value)
• Security optimization – Configure admin area to be accessible through URL of your choice, enable Recaptcha, and turn off Saved Credit Card payment option
• Search engine optimization (SEO) – Implement most of the suggestions in this blog post from the experts over at Yoast
• Update proof - Edit your templates and layouts without worrying about it getting overwritten in a Magento update
• Removal of front-end Magento branding – The default Magento install includes some tough to remove branding such as call-out advertisements that we remove for you
• General usability – Enable cron jobs for maintenance and other miscellaneous tasks

Detailed Document

You can download a PDF that contains all of the nitty-gritty details of what we do as part of our Professional Installation by clicking here.

What We Need from You

After you place your order, we’ll send you an e-mail survey to help collect some of the information we need.

• We currently only offer this service for Apache web server environments
• We can apply these items to any Magento installation – however, we do not recommend applying them to a site currently in production; if you would like us to perform this service on a production website, we will require a release of liability for any down time that occurs during the service
• SSH access with a user that has sudo rights or root privileges
• FTP access
• MySQL connection information for a root user (IP address, user, and password)
• Your desired admin address (i.e. http://yoursite.com/myadmin) – should be something other than “admin”
• SSL status (enabled or not?) – we strongly recommend that you have SSL configured on your server for the security of you and your users
• Domain name and www vs. non-www preference
• Root Magento directory (if not specified, we’ll create one for you)

Your privacy and security are extremely important to us. After we complete our Professional Installation, we will destroy all provided access credentials. However, you should still change all of the credentials you send to us after the Professional Installation is complete. When we are finished, we will send you an e-mail with instructions and suggestions on securing your site.

Because of the nature of the internet, we cannot guarantee that your information will be safe. We are not responsible for the security of your server. Please change your credentials after we are finished with the installation.