Loan Day

The End of life for Magento 1 was on June 30, 2020. It’s done! Magento 1 is no longer supported and a lot of merchants are freaked out. It is more than obvious that this didn’t happen overnight. However, there are a lot of business owners who are still pondering over the ‘How’ and ‘If’ of Magento 1 to 2 migration.

What happens if you stay on Magento 1?

Current Magento 1 users have two simple options; staying on Magento 1 or migrating to Magento 2.

Ecommerce businesses that are still using the old version of Magento have to find ways to make their online store secure.

Your online store would still be live and if you happen to have made a deal with a trusted security provider, you are good to go for some time. However, it is not worth the risk to stay on Magento 1 forever.

How is Magento 2 Better?

Official Support

Since we are past the End of Support deadline, the first and foremost thing to mention in this section is that unlike Magento 1, Magento 2 is a supported platform. As discussed earlier, an ecommerce platform that has official support is very secure but that’s not it! Magento will not only provide the security patches for Magento 2 from time to time but will also add in advanced features like PWA integration, code automation, advanced reporting and extended cache support.

Better Architecture

Magento 2 houses many new technologies that were not included in the previous version. It supports the newer versions of MySQL, CLI, Composer, Apache, Symfony, NGINX in addition to the default support of Memcached, Redis, and Varnish.

Faster and Efficient

Customers hate it when the page they are trying to view is taking ages to load. Keeping this in mind, Magento 2 is so designed that the pages load no less than 30 to 50% faster as compared to Magento 1.

Why Aren’t People Migrating?

It seems that merchants are finding it hard to believe that the company has actually abandoned the 12-year-old Magento 1.

Is Migration Difficult?

Some people wrongfully considered Magento 2 an upgrade of the previous version but this is far from the truth. You might have noticed that the word ‘upgrade’ is nowhere to be seen when it comes to switching from Magento 1 to 2, the word ‘migration’ is used instead. This is simply because switching to Magento 2 is not a simple upgrade.

Conclusion

Magento is one of the highly sought-after ecommerce platforms globally. This powerful Content Management System is running the online businesses of more than 250,000 merchants worldwide.