How To Improve Your Hosting Performance on Adobe Commerce With Josh Ward of Nexcess

Josh Ward is the VP of Sales at Nexcess, a business that provides managed hosting services for WordPress, Magento, and other ecommerce platforms. In his role, he helps the sales team, processes, and marketing initiatives at Nexcess and assists with recruiting. He spent the first decade of his career switching from IT manager to system administration before transitioning to marketing.
  • December 26, 2022
  • The eCommerce Wizards Podcast
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In this episode

On the last episode with Josh Ward, he broke down the key differences between PWA and standard Magento builds. Now he goes into depth on optimizing hosting performance.

Even with the perfect web application, many optimizations still need to be made to your hosting capabilities. Many ecommerce brands are missing out on their full potential by failing to ask the right questions and look in the right places. Now you will find out exactly what you need to know.

In this episode of the Ecommerce Wizards Podcast, Guillaume Le Tual invites Josh Ward, the VP of Sales at Nexcess, back onto the show to talk about improving your hosting performance on Adobe Commerce. They go through topics such as CDNs, knowing when and how to split your database, strategically planning for traffic spikes, and much more.

What you’ll learn

  • Getting the most out of your CDN (content delivery network)
  • How to utilize Varnish cache properly and why it’s effective
  • Strategically planning for traffic spikes
  • The essential do’s and don’ts of optimizing hosting performance
  • Splitting the database and knowing when it’s the right time

About Josh Ward

Josh Ward is the VP of Sales at Nexcess, a business that provides managed hosting services for WordPress, Magento, and other ecommerce platforms. In his role, he helps the sales team, processes, and marketing initiatives at Nexcess and assists with recruiting. He spent the first decade of his career switching from IT manager to system administration before transitioning to marketing.

In addition to his career, Josh is also the President of Gateway All Sports Booster Club, where he supports students by raising funds for facilities, equipment, and uniforms.

Resources mentioned in this episode

The Ecommerce Wizards Podcast is hosted by Guillaume Le Tual, CEO of MageMontreal. Watch more episodes on our YouTube channel.

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