Magento eCommerce store

Global drift to online purchasing may spark an idea of becoming a retailer and launching an own online eCommerce store. While searching for the perfect software platform a Magento will definitely be in a top list of candidates.

This solution by Adobe gives full freedom on modifying default store components in any way it will be considered best.

So at the end of a day, a future store owner might be asking himself how much would it cost to launch a Magento website? This article elaborates the answer to this question in detail.

Magento software pricing
Adobe maintains two distinct Magento versions: Magento Open Source (former name Community Edition) and Adobe Commerce (formerly Magento Enterprise Edition).

Magento Open Source

Magento Open Source pricing is simple: it's completely free to use. Simply download it, deploy on the server, and use it without any costs required. The download link is available on Magento.com.

Opting in for a Magento Open Source it will be the store owner’s responsibility to bear development, hosting and other things. Adobe provides no support for stores on this edition.

Adobe Commerce

Adobe provides cost estimation for Adobe Commerce license by request. Adobe Commerce license price begins at $22,000 and reaches up to $190,000 per year.

Basically, the more revenue a brand brings, the lower rate Adobe Commerce costs.

Domain name cost
A mandatory element for any online store is a domain name, that customers will use to access it in their web browsers.

Depending on the name desired the price may start from as low as $2.99/year to thousands of dollars. For example, a domain name for an apparel store with ending in clothing.net would cost $57,016.00. An even shorter clothing.co would require $194,888.00.

Sometimes one domain name is not enough since a single Magento instance allows adding several stores with individual domain names.

Hosting services
Hosting providers mostly sell their services offering hardware of different productivity. Yet Adobe gives definitive requirements for Magento server software, but the Magento server hardware requirements are described flexibly.

Store owners using Adobe Commerce don't have to worry regarding hosting services since this Magento version includes cloud hosting.

Stores on Magento Open Source can buy hosting on Amazon Web Services for $36.51/month for a 2GB RAM 2 core server and up to $705.18/month for 64GB RAM 16 core server. Google Cloud offers a server with 1.7 GB RAM 1 core CPU for $33.18/month and up to $721.94/month for a 60GB RAM 16 core server.

According to a Magento hosting provider Sonassi, a standard Magento demo store delivers 230 unique visitors per GHz, per hour. For a real production store reduce this figure to 115 uniques per GHz, per hour. A slow Magento store due to poor optimization or heavy template can degrade its performance to 50 unique visitors per GHz, per hour.

Calculate the required hosting CPU configuration by knowing that an 8-core chassis is capable to serve 4000 sustained visitors/day and a 64-core will be enough for serving 23 920 visitors/day.

The RAM size highly depends on the server CPU config. Config of 8 cores requires 16 GB RAM, for 64 cores a 64 GB is optimum.

SSL
Access to the websites using HTTPS has become a de-facto standard, and for a Magento store to work with this protocol a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificate is required.

SSL certificates can be bought separately from a domain name, in which case it will cost about $5.99/year. Alternatively, the SSL certificate can be a part of the Magento-aimed hosting plan. It is included even in the most affordable hosting plans.

Theme design pricing
The most affordable way for your store frontend to stand out from the competitors is to use a third-party prebuilt theme. Download it on the official Magento Marketplace, and such template stores as Template Monster, and ThemeForest.