Hosting an online store

Hosting an online store is not the same as hosting a brochure site. A cart, a checkout funnel and a catalogue generate dynamic requests that caching cannot always absorb. Your hosting choice directly shapes your conversion rate: a slow site loses sales with every second of waiting.

Shared, VPS or managed for e-commerce

Shared hosting suits a store that is just starting out, with few products and modest traffic. As soon as the catalogue grows or traffic becomes steady, the product pages and the cart — which cannot be cached — saturate a shared core. A VPS with guaranteed resources then becomes the right step up: you control PHP, the database and the object cache.

If you would rather not administer the machine, our managed WordPress hosting runs WooCommerce with full-page caching, Redis and automatic image optimisation, on Ryzen 9 7950X hardware in France.

How much power to aim for

• Small store (a few dozen products, occasional traffic): our Eco VPS or managed WordPress is enough.
• Active store (large catalogue, marketing campaigns, traffic spikes): a Pro VPS with 16 GB of RAM handles WooCommerce or PrestaShop comfortably, database included.
• Heavy load (sales events, product launches): plan CPU headroom and a well-tuned object cache rather than piling on RAM.

The technical points that hold up under load

• Database: the orders table and the sessions grow fast. Put it on NVMe and keep CPU headroom.
• Caching: category and product pages can be cached; the cart, the customer account and checkout cannot. A Redis object cache relieves the database on those dynamic pages.
• HTTPS and payment: essential for trust and for search ranking. Certificates are automatic with us.
• Backups: a store loses money if it loses an order. Our managed plans back up daily.

Payment and transparency

You charge your customers through your own provider (Stripe, PayPal, bank transfer). On our side, hosting is paid by card or in cryptocurrency, with no commitment, at an advertised price that stays the renewal price.

To speed up an existing store, read our guide speeding up an e-commerce site. Otherwise, compare our VPS and managed WordPress plans depending on your stack.