<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Solution</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: #ffff00; font-size: small;">Hosting Requirements For Magento<br /><br />Magento is an ecommerce script that is performance intensive because it runs very complex database queries. As such, it should only be run on <a href="http://twopiz.com/hosting/dedicated-server/">dedicated servers</a>. Varien, the creator of Magento, has a few resources to help with Magento's performance issues: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.magentocommerce.com/group/view/168">performance and optimization group</a>, <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.magentocommerce.com/wiki/">Magento wiki</a>, <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.magentocommerce.com/boards">forum community</a>, <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.magentocommerce.com/whitepaper/">an optimization whitepaper</a> and <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.magentocommerce.com/support/overview">dedicated support (paid)</a>.<br /><br />The actual performance of Magento varies from store to store, and running your own data on a test installation of Magento is the best way to test performance before going live. We recommend that Magento be run on nothing less than our dedicated server. </span></p>