Magento Standalone on MassiveGRID PaaS
Magento Standalone deploys Magento Open Source (Magento 2) on a single optimised application server with its database and search engine, ready for catalogue import. It is the fastest way to stand up a Magento store or staging site on MassiveGRID PaaS, with an upgrade path to the auto-scalable Magento cluster when sales grow.
Both buttons open the MassiveGRID PaaS dashboard with Magento Standalone pre-selected. The trial needs no credit card.
Magento Standalone Package Facts
| Attribute | Value |
|---|---|
| Package | Magento Standalone |
| Type | Application (installs a complete environment) |
| Category | E-commerce |
| Software vendor / project | Adobe (Magento Open Source) |
| Licence | OSL 3.0 (Magento Open Source) |
| Runtime / stack | NGINX or LiteSpeed PHP application server, MySQL/MariaDB, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, Redis (optional) |
| Regions | New York, London, Frankfurt, Singapore |
| Billing | Pay-per-use from $2.46/month ($0.003372/hour), no licence fee |
| Free trial | 14 days, no credit card |
| Uptime SLA | 100% |
What is Magento Standalone?
Magento Open Source is the free edition of the platform behind Adobe Commerce, trusted by hundreds of thousands of merchants for complex catalogues, B2B pricing, multi-store setups and deep customisation. It is also one of the most demanding PHP applications to host: it needs a modern PHP stack, MySQL, a search engine, plenty of memory and careful caching to feel fast.
The Standalone package takes care of that stack in one click. It deploys a tuned application server, a MySQL-compatible database and the search service Magento requires, installs Magento with sample configuration, and exposes the store over HTTPS. Vertical auto-scaling adds cloudlets during promotions and removes them afterwards, so a small store pays for what it sells, not for peak capacity all year.
What the Magento Standalone Package Deploys
Marketplace packages are not bare container images. One click provisions a complete, production-shaped environment on MassiveGRID infrastructure.
- PHP application server: NGINX or LiteSpeed with PHP-FPM, OPcache and the extensions Magento 2 requires, with the Magento cron job pre-configured.
- MySQL-compatible database: A linked MariaDB or MySQL container tuned for Magento's InnoDB workload.
- Search engine: Elasticsearch or OpenSearch, which Magento 2.4 requires for catalogue search and layered navigation.
- Optional Redis: Add Redis for page cache and sessions to cut database load and speed up checkout.
- Built-in domain and SSL: HTTPS on a platform subdomain from the first minute; attach your shop domain via Let's Encrypt.
Why Teams Choose Magento Standalone
Full Magento 2 stack, no setup
PHP, database and search engine versions are matched to the installed Magento release, which is the step most self-hosted installs get wrong.
Auto-scaling for sales events
Cloudlets are added when Black Friday traffic arrives and removed when it leaves.
Staging in one click
Clone the environment to test extensions and upgrades against real data, then delete the copy.
Grow into a cluster
When one server is not enough, the Magento Cluster package adds load balancing, replicated databases and Redis without changing the application.
How to Install Magento Standalone on MassiveGRID PaaS
Installing the package takes three steps and a few minutes of waiting. No servers to provision, no configuration files to edit.
Open the installer
Click Install with free trial or Install to my account. The MassiveGRID PaaS dashboard opens with the Magento Standalone package pre-selected, so nothing has to be copied or pasted.
Sign up or sign in
New to the platform? Sign up for the free 14-day trial, which needs no credit card. Existing customers sign in with their usual dashboard credentials.
Choose region and deploy
Name the environment, pick New York, London, Frankfurt or Singapore, and confirm. The platform builds every Magento Standalone node, wires them together and hands you the live URL and credentials.
Who Runs Magento Standalone on PaaS
New Magento stores
Merchants launching a Magento 2 shop who want a production-grade stack without a systems administrator.
Development and staging
Agencies building or upgrading stores in isolated environments that mirror production.
B2B catalogues
Manufacturers and distributors using Magento's customer groups, tiered pricing and quotes.
Why Run Magento Standalone on MassiveGRID PaaS
Built for uptime. Magento Standalone runs on MassiveGRID's high-availability platform, where every environment is covered by a 100% uptime SLA. Nodes live on redundant hosts, storage is replicated, and failed containers are restarted or migrated automatically.
Pay for what you use. Billing is hourly and per cloudlet (128 MiB RAM plus 400 MHz CPU). Vertical auto-scaling adds and removes cloudlets as load changes, so a quiet Magento Standalone environment costs a few dollars a month and a busy one grows without a migration. Full details are on the PaaS page.
Your choice of jurisdiction. Deploy in New York, London, Frankfurt or Singapore and keep data inside the region your users or regulators require. MassiveGRID is ISO 9001 certified and GDPR compliant, and has run hosting infrastructure since 2003.
No lock-in. The package is a standard Jelastic Packaging Standard (JPS) manifest. You keep root-level access to the containers, can export the manifest, and can move the workload to any other Jelastic-compatible platform or to your own servers at any time.
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