| Rank on this site | 2 of 7 (see the ranking) |
| Headquarters | Manchester, United Kingdom |
| Founded | 2008 |
| Size as stated | 10 to 49 on Clutch |
| Website | sonassi.com |
| Best for | A store leaving Adobe Commerce Cloud whose owner wants Varnish, MySQL, and PHP tuning held inside a hosting team that does nothing but Magento. |
| Not for | A merchant who needs storefront, integration, or module work as part of the move, because Sonassi states on its site that it stopped building Magento stores in 2015. |
| Pricing as stated | Clutch lists an hourly rate of $150 to $199 and a minimum project size of $10,000+. Its homepage prints no hosting plan price. |
What the published record shows
Sonassi describes itself on its site as a Magento hosting, migration, and support company, with the address 3rd Floor, 6 Archway, Manchester, and hosting in the UK, US, and Asia Pacific. Its Clutch profile gives Salford Quays as the location, a founding year of 2008, 10 to 49 employees, and no client reviews. This page uses the agency's own address for the headquarters and records the Clutch entry in the ledger.
The statement that matters most for this ranking is on its homepage: in 2015 the company made the commitment to stop building Magento stores and fully dedicate itself to Magento hosting. That is the reason it scores well on route coverage for the exit and poorly on the integration and frontend criteria. A merchant who needs a module rewritten or a storefront rebuilt as part of leaving Adobe's cloud will need a second firm.
Its migration offer, as printed, is a free migration managed by its own team with no downtime. The page does not say what the offer includes. Adobe's documentation lists the Fastly service, a Galera database cluster with IDs advancing in threes, GlusterFS file storage, and an ece-tools deploy pipeline as parts of a cloud infrastructure store, and a merchant should ask Sonassi in writing which of those it rebuilds and which it expects the merchant's developers to handle.
Sonassi's homepage names two clients, the agency JH and the retailer Axminster, and does not name Adobe Commerce Cloud. Clutch lists an hourly rate of $150 to $199 and a minimum project size of $10,000, the highest hourly rate on this page. No named migration with a before-and-after number appears on the site, so criterion 1 scores it at zero, and there is no third-party review to weigh. Its rank rests on the exit route being the one it has organized itself around, and on the fact that it says so in plain terms on its own homepage.
Evidence used for this profile
- States it stopped building Magento stores in 2015 to dedicate itself to Magento hosting, and offers a free migration managed by its own team with no downtime sonassi.com
- Hosting regions listed as UK, US, and Asia Pacific; address at 6 Archway, Manchester; named clients JH and Axminster sonassi.com
- Clutch: founded 2008, 10 to 49 employees, $150 to $199 an hour, $10,000+ minimum, no reviews Clutch
Questions people ask about Sonassi
- Does Sonassi build or customize Magento stores?
- No, by its own statement. Its homepage says that in 2015 it made the commitment to stop building Magento stores and dedicate itself to hosting. A merchant leaving Adobe Commerce Cloud who also needs module or storefront work should pair Sonassi with a development agency, or choose an agency such as scandiweb that publishes both kinds of work.
- Is Sonassi's migration free?
- Its homepage offers a free migration managed by its own team with no downtime. The page does not say what the offer covers, so ask whether it includes the Fastly VCL rewrite, the database move with its ID sequence change, and the media transfer that Adobe documents as parts of a cloud infrastructure store.
- Where does Sonassi host?
- Its site lists low latency hosting across the UK, US, and Asia Pacific, with its office at 6 Archway, Manchester. The Clutch profile lists the location as Salford Quays. Neither page names a specific data center provider, so a merchant with a data residency requirement should ask for the region and the provider in writing.
- What does Sonassi cost?
- Its homepage prints no plan price. Clutch lists an hourly rate of $150 to $199 and a minimum project size of $10,000, which is the highest hourly band among the seven agencies here. MGT Commerce, the other hosting company on this page, prints monthly prices from €149, so a buyer comparing the two has one printed number and one quote.
Sonassi did not contribute to or review this profile. Corrections: editorial policy.