Ecommerce hosting
Hosting for your UK online shop
A small WooCommerce shop runs well on our Medium plan at £33.45 a year, with LiteSpeed, Redis object caching, free SSL and Imunify360 on UK servers. Fast pages and a secure checkout matter more in a shop than anywhere else, because every extra second costs sales. Larger catalogues and busier shops can move up to Large, Limitless or Limitless Plus.
Why it matters
What a shop needs from its host
Speed at the checkout
Shoppers abandon slow pages. LiteSpeed and Redis object caching reduce the work done for each product and basket page.
A secure checkout
Free SSL puts your whole shop on HTTPS, which customers expect before they enter card details with your payment provider.
Protection from attacks
Imunify360, a firewall and DDoS protection help keep bots and malware away from your store.
Backups before updates
Weekly remote backups let you roll back after a plugin update that breaks the basket.
Order emails that arrive
An external mail relay helps order confirmations reach inboxes and not spam folders.
UK servers
London servers keep pages quick for UK shoppers, who are most of your customers.
Choosing a plan
Disk space by plan, for a growing catalogue
Product photos are the main thing that fills the disk. Here is the room each plan gives you.
A shop with 500 products and four compressed photos each, at about 200 KB, uses around 400 MB of images, so most small shops have plenty of room.
Which plan
Matching a plan to the size of your shop
| Your shop | Plan | Per year |
|---|---|---|
| Just starting, under 100 products | Small | £21.18 |
| Growing, a few hundred products | Medium | £33.45 |
| Large catalogue or several shops | Large | £44.60 |
| Busy shop with big image libraries | Limitless | £66.89 |
| Very large catalogue and heavy traffic | Limitless Plus | £133.79 |
Prices when billed yearly.
Launch
Open your shop in four steps
Order hosting
Choose the plan that matches your catalogue, and add your domain.
Install WordPress and WooCommerce
Use the one-click WordPress installer, then add WooCommerce from the dashboard.
Connect payments
Link your payment provider and test a purchase before you announce the shop.
Turn on caching
Use a LiteSpeed cache plugin and Redis object caching for faster pages.
Speed matters
Why a shop needs more than a brochure site does
A brochure site shows the same page to everyone, so a cache can do most of the work. A shop is different. Prices, stock, baskets and logged-in accounts change page by page, and much of each visit hits the database.
That is why a shop gets the most from the combination on our plans: LiteSpeed for fast serving and page caching on the pages that can be cached, and Redis object caching for the parts that cannot. Together they keep product pages and the checkout quick.
Do the basics on your side as well. Compress product photos before you upload them, remove plugins you do not use, and test the shop on a phone. These steps often matter more than the plan you choose.
- Resize product photos to the size you display, not the size your camera produces
- Limit plugins to the ones that earn their place
- Test the checkout on a phone and on a slow connection
- Watch the basket and checkout pages, because they are never cached
Staying safe
Looking after customer trust
Customers trust a shop that looks and behaves safely. Keep WordPress, WooCommerce and all plugins updated, use strong admin passwords and turn on two-factor login for the people who manage the shop.
Do not store card numbers yourself. Use a reputable payment provider so card details never touch your hosting. If you collect personal information, such as addresses, make sure your privacy notice says what you do with it.
Open your shop on fast UK hosting
Start on a plan that fits today, and keep the 15-day money-back guarantee.
FAQ
Common questions
Can I run WooCommerce here?
Yes. Install WordPress in one click and add the WooCommerce plugin. LiteSpeed and Redis object caching help it run faster.
Is hosting PCI compliant?
Card payments are taken by your payment provider, not stored on your hosting. Use a reputable provider and keep your site updated. Ask your provider about its own compliance requirements.
What about traffic spikes?
Plans have bandwidth limits and shared resources. For planned sale events, choose a bigger plan or ask our live chat first.
Do I get an SSL certificate?
Yes. Free SSL is included on every plan.
Can I try it first?
Yes. The 15-day money-back guarantee covers your first order.
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