MageMojo vs Nexcess — how do I choose?

Both are Magento-native managed hosts with similar stacks (PHP-FPM + Varnish + Redis + MySQL + OpenSearch) and similar price bands. The real differences:

• MageMojo is leaner, more DevOps-focused, and historically the cheaper option for high-traffic stores. Founder is a long-time Magento contributor; support is via Slack with senior engineers. Best for stores at $1M–$10M GMV that want managed-Magento without paying Adobe Cloud prices.
• Nexcess (Liquid Web brand) is more product-tiered: StoreBuilder for SMB, Magento Cloud Pro for mid-market, Enterprise tier for larger. Support is 24/7 with a ticket system; bench is deeper but less direct-to-senior-eng access. Best for stores that want a single managed-hosting bill including backups, staging environments, and managed updates.

Calculator tie-breakers:

• If your traffic is spiky (Black Friday, drops) — MageMojo’s auto-scale on Kubernetes wins.
• If you need staging environments / dev sandboxes included — Nexcess Pro tiers bundle them.
• If you want a phone number to call at 3am — Nexcess.
• If you want a Slack channel with the engineer who wrote your tuning — MageMojo.

Both run open-source Magento and Adobe Commerce. Both can host Hyvä. Both will migrate you in 7–14 days. The pricing difference is usually <20% at the same tier.