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Walking downstairs, I found my dog (and good buddy), Bentley, snuggling up close to our laptop. Were he human, I just wonder if he might want to be a developer 🙂

We sell as many Magento modules to Europe as we do in the States. Our clients span the globe. Last week I met with a new client in Sydney. It took me 10 minutes to figure out the time conversion and get a call invite to Lee in San Diego.

Luke found this awesome time zone tool from the amazing designers at Every Time Zone. Visually, it is far-and-away better than anything else I’ve seen for time zones.

It’s no secret that Magento on the wrong server setup can make response times feel like you’re back in dial-up days of yore. So I found this Magento hosting case study from Stackable quite intriguing.

Listen Technologies was running Magento on a shared hosting setup, but not very well:

Magento just didn’t work very well on a shared platform. We saw a lot of delays, time outs, and error messages when we made adjustments to the database. Things just weren’t working.

After switching to a Stackable 1G container, here’s what happened:

Out of the box, Stackable improved our load times dramatically—from about 36 seconds to 1 second. It was amazing. Once we got on it and started testing it, all of the issues we were having before were immediately gone. I really like the interface and the flexibility of changing and modifying on the fly without having to call anyone. I mean…it’s a great platform at a much better rate.

Stackable’s scalable containers and daily pricing based on usage might make it a really attractive option for Magento retailers. (Note: Elias has a test account with Stackable, but we haven’t had an opportunity to try it out ourselves yet.)