The required server hardware is mostly dependent on the number of articles available in your shop and on the expected traffic (visitors per day). The requirements are covered by most hosting providers and certified hosters should be able to provide a suitable configuration.
Support for PHP 7.4 was already discontinued by PHP. PHP 8.0 will be discountined soon. You can find more information about this here.
Please note that the values here are to be seen as an absolute minimum. As soon as you have a high number of items in the store or a high traffic is expected and the store has to process many requests at the same time, it is strongly recommended to increase the server resources.
The requirements listed above represent the recommended setup to install Shopware. Generally, the operation is also possible on similar setups (Mac OS, nginx, MariaDB etc.). However, please take into account that we cannot provide official support for setting up such server systems and setups. The setup of alternative server systems with all necessary requirements is the responsibility of the respective hosting partner.
Shopware supports Elasticsearch Server by default. You can find more information here.
The administration of your store can be done completely online through your web browser. For this it is necessary that you have Javascript and cookies enabled. Through the use of cookies, a unique identification of your person is possible, thus ensuring a high level of security. The use of Javascript increases the usability of the system enormously and allows in conjunction with Ajax as the core technology of Shopware the comfortable and fast administration of your store
