PrestaHeroes helps eCommerce shops move to better hosting, build safe development copies, tune the server properly, simplify problem stacks, and complete clean cutovers with the kind of testing online stores actually require.
From choosing the right hosting to PHP-FPM, MySQL/MariaDB tuning, backups, staging, SSL, DNS, checkout testing, and post-cutover verification — this is work we know well and work we genuinely like doing.
Most hosting is sold as if every website has the same needs. That is not true. An online store has database-heavy catalog pages, customer sessions, carts, checkout, payment modules, carrier calculations, product images, search, faceted filters, admin activity, cron jobs, and email delivery all working together.
A PrestaShop store is not just serving static pages. It is processing catalog data, customer sessions, carts, carriers, payments, modules, and admin activity.
When pages feel slow, visitors notice. When checkout feels unstable, customers hesitate. Hosting is part of the customer experience.
We have worked with enough hosting stacks to know where eCommerce shops usually break, stall, timeout, or underperform.
Nginx can be excellent for certain high-concurrency architectures, static delivery, streaming, and complex proxy setups. But for many PrestaShop shops, especially those running through a control panel stack, forcing Nginx in front of Apache can create more complexity than benefit.
When Nginx, Apache, PHP-FPM, MySQL, cache, modules, and long-running admin or checkout requests are not tuned together, the result can be the infamous 504 Gateway Timeout.
The shop works one moment, then a back-office page, module configuration, checkout action, image process, or heavy category request suddenly times out.
For many PrestaShop hosting environments, we prefer a clean Apache + PHP-FPM configuration over unnecessary proxy complexity.
Apache is highly capable when properly configured. Removing unnecessary layers can make the shop easier to tune, easier to troubleshoot, and more stable for real eCommerce workloads.
A proper eCommerce server move is much more than copying files and importing a database. The store needs to be prepared, moved, tuned, tested, synchronized, and verified.
We review your current stack, limits, PHP version, database behavior, memory, storage, control panel, backups, and whether the hosting actually fits the shop.
We prepare a safe staging or development copy so the new environment can be tested before the public store is moved.
Files, database, images, modules, themes, configuration, cache handling, permissions, SSL, admin access, and environment settings are reviewed and moved properly.
PHP-FPM, OPcache, memory limits, upload limits, execution times, MySQL/MariaDB settings, cache behavior, compression, cron, and backups are tuned around eCommerce.
We test the customer journey: browsing, product pages, cart, customer login, account creation, carriers, payments, order confirmation, and emails.
We plan final sync, DNS timing, SSL validation, maintenance needs, post-cutover checks, and the practical details that reduce disruption.
The existing shop can continue selling while the new environment is prepared and tested. That is the difference between a professional eCommerce cutover and a risky file transfer.
We review the current shop, hosting, PHP version, database size, modules, traffic, known issues, and business requirements.
We create or verify full file and database backups before migration work begins.
We configure the new hosting environment with the required PHP extensions, database, SSL, permissions, mail handling, and server settings.
We move the store to a development copy and test the new environment before the live cutover.
We tune PHP-FPM, OPcache, memory, MySQL/MariaDB, cache behavior, cron, and related performance settings.
We verify the storefront, admin, product pages, cart, checkout, carriers, payments, emails, and order flow.
We complete the final sync, DNS update, SSL verification, and live transition.
After the move, we confirm the live shop is working correctly and the new hosting is performing as expected.
Many serious shops no longer need to stay trapped on crowded shared hosting, weak VPS plans, or generic managed platforms that do not understand eCommerce workloads.
Affordable dedicated hosting with NVMe SSD storage can provide better control, faster disk performance, stronger stability, and a cleaner foundation for PrestaShop.
We help you choose hosting that fits the actual workload — not the sales page from a hosting company.
PrestaHeroes is an eCommerce agency, not a generic hosting reseller. We understand how hosting affects catalog performance, admin usability, checkout confidence, payment modules, carrier logic, feeds, backups, logs, and everyday store operations.
This is the kind of work where experience saves time, prevents mistakes, and protects sales.
If your shop feels slow, unstable, underpowered, or trapped on hosting that no longer fits, we can review the current environment, recommend the right hosting path, prepare the new server, migrate the shop, tune performance, test the customer experience, and complete the final cutover.
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