“Firm Foundation” Magento Professional Support Plan
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Classy Llama Studios is excited to offer our “Firm Foundation” Magento Professional Support Plan, which includes the setup of our Triple Defense, Hyper-Efficient Development Environment, which is kind of awesome.
License Cost: $2,995 USD per year
-50% 1st year discount = $1,495 USD (with the purchase of our Support Plan)
The “Firm Foundation” Magento Professional Support Plan: $5,000
- Full Installation Service
- Full Setup of Our Triple Defense, Hyper-Efficient Development Environment — See below for details
- Development Environment Training
- Two hours of expert consultation/support usable within 3 months of installation (30-minute per request, 15-minute increments)
- Hosting consultation to help you ensure your Magento installation will operate quickly
What is the Triple Defense, Hyper-Efficient Development Environment?
eCommerce is built on a foundation of code, and it’s very important that the foundation is dependable, secure, and flexible. We have implemented a “triple defense” system to ensure that the foundational integrity of your eCommerce structure is maintained while making changes to it.
The third line of defense is the staging environment. According to standard best practices, we make all changes in a “padded room,” a private, password-protected staging site identical to the live site. If any unexpected results occur, we haven’t lost any sales or damaged customer relations. Even the most sane people need a padded room from time to time, and we’re no exception. But when it goes live, you can be sure it’s solid.
The second line of defense is our subversion system, commonly called SVN. SVN allows multiple developers to work on one project at the same time without getting in each other’s way. It also provides a full version history of changes made to the core “repository” of code, allowing easy rollbacks to earlier versions should a change cause any problems. And of course, all of these changes are being made to the staging environment not the live site, so it’s not causing any irreparable harm. If you haven’t gotten a warm, safe feeling by now, read on.
The first line of defense is your development team’s execution of proper quality assurance and debugging practices on their local development servers. Developers download the current code from the central SVN “repository” to their individual development servers, giving developers a full understanding of how their changes will affect the current live site without actually amending the live site.
The primary benefit of these multiple lines of defense is the liberation of your development team to be innovative in a risk-free environment, not having to worry about how their changes will damage the live site or complicate progress for other parallel developers.
The secondary benefit is that you can sleep at night knowing that your development team is not conducting experiments on your live site.
Since we develop collaboratively, we also developed some really cool scripts that will allow your developers to work together without stepping on each other’s toes. These tools will also allow your team to easily and effectively integrate your development efforts with other development teams if the need should arise (e.g. if you need to hire an agency like us to help you… hint, hint)
The scripts we have developed will sync the development and staging servers with the live site, providing the ability for developers to collaborate, while still maintaining their own development environments. The process we use to replicate the server environment acts as a testing ground for disaster recovery measures, as revisions and backups are used to recreate additional environments for development and testing.
Payment: Magento has authorized us to accept payment (via check, Paypal, credit card) for the Professional License and the Support Plan in one payment, and we’ll acquire the license from Magento and install it for you.
Control: You will have full access, ownership, and control over the source code and database.
Upgrades: A straight upgrade to a new version will cost an additional $500, but we are not responsible for ensuring that modules and extensions are compatible with the upgrade. We can offer that service on a Time & Materials basis.
Click here to purchase the Firm Foundation Support Plan
If you have additional questions, please e-mail us @ sales@classyllama.com OR call us @ 417.866.8887.
