VPS Container Hosting Launched
October 23rd, 2009
Posted in Magento
SimpleHelix is pleased to announce that we now offer VPS Semi-Dedicated Container hosting for your growing e-commerce websites. With Semi-Dedicated VPS Hosting, you are guaranteed a set amount of server resources to ensure that your website consistently runs at an optimal level. We recommend semi-dedicated hosting for websites hosting up to 15,000 Products.
Also, when you order Semi-Dedicated VPS Hosting, you will also receive absolutely FREE:
- Dedicated IP Address
- 256-Bit SSL Certificate
- SimpleHelix T-Shirt
Differences Between Magento Enterprise and Magento Community
Pod1 has added it’s contribution to well-written comparison articles of Magento’s Enterprise and Community versions. You can read the full article here.
Both are based on the same Magento Core code, which will be kept in parallel ongoing, The differences with the Enterprise Edition break down into 2 categories:
- The support for the code
- Additional plug-ins and modules that are not available in the Community Edition
The article goes on to specifically discuss what the level of support you receive with the Enterprise edition and what that will give a user above the community edition. The most talked about difference is the PCI compliance potential:
Finally, Varien are pursuing PCI compliance for the Enterprise Edition, under the PA-DSS scheme, which will mean that the application itself will be PCI compliant. This is different from what Pod1 is pursuing on PCI, which is making our implementations (hosting plus procedures plus code) compliant. PA-DSS would be very useful to Pod1 and its clients, and it’s an important part of our PCI strategy.
Two Updates From Magento
Magento has two bits of important updates on their site for this week. SimpleHelix customers who are also Magento users might find this information important and useful.
First – The Magento Users Guide is now available in a print edition. They’re using Lulu as a print service to distribute the paper copies. The cost is currently $32.95.
Second – Magento Connect is listing new extensions for use in the storefront. There’s an event calendar and MailChip synchronization as well as a few others that Magento users may need.
Fix for Magento Backup Error
After our tech team received several tickets from customers getting a certain repeated error during a backup, they hunted down a fix and posted it to our knowledgebase.
If you feel uncomfortable doing this or it doesn’t work for you, please feel free to open a ticket we’ll be glad to help out.
If you see this error:
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/USERNAME/domains/DOMAINNAME/public_html/MAGENTOLOCATION/lib/Varien/Data/Collection/Filesystem.php on line 234
- go to line 234 on file : lib/Varien/Data/Collection/Filesystem.php
- change this line :
foreach (glob($folder . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . ‘*’) as $node) {
with this :
foreach ((array)glob($folder . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . ‘*’) as $node) {
Note : this problem has been detected on version 1.3.2.2
Remember, if you need help, open a ticket and our tech team will aid you.
SimpleHelix Internap CDN Partnership
- July 07th, 2009
- Posted in News
SimpleHelix has partnered with Internap Network Services Corporation to bring you the best CDN access available. We are currently developing ways to improve our customers Magento stores with CDN access such as images offloading and live streaming video.
We will be launching a full suite of CDN based products come August 2009. If you have any questions or would like to beta test our CDN access, please submit a support ticket here.
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