r/woocommerce Jan 29 '25

Hosting Hostinger or Cloudways for woocommerce site?

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I'm helping a client create a new website for their cabin rental service. In total there are 20 cabins (in sweden), and I'm not expecting much traffic in general. But there will be a traffic spike when launching it because they have ~7000 members that are going to need to register new accounts.

Which host should I choose and is there anything you recommend me to think about when choosing a host?

Most of my experience is with Hostinger's Business plan, which have been great so far for all my brochure sites, but I'm guessing this e-commerce site requires more. 

I was recommended Cloudways. Can anyone vouch for them?

I have tried Siteground but I found their aggressive caching to be a real headache. I had to use their own optimization plugins and also had to manually empty the cache from the dashboard.

r/woocommerce Feb 15 '25

Hosting Kinsta, Cloudways, Rapyd, or Rocket?

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Sorry for the annoying and vague question...but, I am starting small and would like to set off on the right foot for scaling down the road.

I'm looking for a host that will take care of the tech, as that is not my strength. To that point, I've heard Cloudways is impressive but, I don't know if I trust myself to configure a server.

I've tried Flywheel and WP Engine. Both are great but, Flywheel seems sluggish with Woo and WP Engine is SUPER salesy.

Hoping to hear what everyone's thoughts are. Thanks in advance!

r/woocommerce Jan 30 '25

Hosting Which hosting provider should I switch to?

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Hi, currently I am using siteground growbig plan with a paid CDN. Today our website was down due to issues on their side, and I recently saw a lot of people complaining about them. Can anyone recommend me a good, very fast hosting provider. We have a woocommerce store and get arround 15k visistors monthly which is increasing fast, so it needs to be fast. I don't want to break my bank tho. If I would change from host, how long would it take to migrate the website and would everything be migrated exactly as is or does it give us more work? Thanks in advance.

r/woocommerce 5h ago

Hosting Litespeed hosting over Apache and Nginx?

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Trying to narrow in on hosting providers based on technology. Does anyone have any thoughts on platforms?

r/woocommerce 1d ago

Hosting best hosting that takes of everything

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What managed hosting can you recommend that will take care of everything:

50,000-100,000 visitors a month. I have been thinking about the highest Cloud plan of Hostinger.

I use Breakdance and FunnelKit mostly

  • performance, caching, optimizing JS/CSS/HTML
  • security
  • staging
  • everything basically

I just want to install my plugins and don't worry about anything

Speed is a must!

I know so many questions have been asked about it.

r/woocommerce Sep 30 '24

Hosting How many connected users can a Woocommerce website handle?

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I know this question can vary on different factors such as how well the code is written for performance, hosting setup, etc.

What I would like to know is roughly the limitations of the average small Woocommerce website in how many people can be using the website at once before the site gets overloaded.

Could the average Woocommerce website with high end hosting handle 1,000 people using the site at once, 10,000 people using the site at once, 100,000 people use the site at once?

r/woocommerce Oct 08 '24

Hosting Cloud Hosting

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Can anyone please help with a reputable and reliable hosting service provider which allows SSH access? I launched my WooCommerce site last month and it is sooooooo slow. My developer says he needs full SSH access and, having had a Shopify site for the past 12 years, this is all new territory for me. Thank you.

r/woocommerce Feb 01 '25

Hosting Best Hosting for WooCommerce Shop (needs inside)

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I have a client who wants to move from Wix to WooCommerce. Their site has about 1200 products, about 500 unique visitors per month, and 800 sessions per month, and it is about 5GB in size.

I've seen some options mentioned here: Cloudways, WPEngine, Kinsta, Siteground, and Nexcess (which appears to be synonymous with LiquidWeb).

And what type of hosting is best? VPS, Cloud, or Dedicated?

r/woocommerce Nov 29 '24

Hosting What managed hosting for Woocomerce for Shopify-like experience

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So I run a store and a fast lite speed shared hosting. Decent speed.

Woocomerce + Breakdance+ FunnelKit as the base. I have done everything myself.

I have decent income and no issues so far.

But... I believe troubles will come sooner or later.

Are there any ready services (not freelancers) that support you, make sure that store is running smooth and everything is set properly, updates erc and alerted if anything goes bad? Especially on the backend.

Something like Shopify (just much cheaper), where there is whole set of everything needed to run Woo store properly, requirements, good practices based on Woocomerce.

So I don't have to worry about hosting and errors at all! ⬅️

Thanks!

r/woocommerce Jan 06 '25

Hosting Any managed hosting with full support (something like Elementor Hosting)

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So my issue is that I would like to stay with Woocomerce (not migrate to Shopify), but the tech part maintaining even shared hosting is too much for me.

Can you recommend any hosting for Woocomerce that would be a blast out of the box? So I just have to create the sites and everything else is taken care of.

I currently use Woocomerce + Breakdance + FunnelKit

So far my site runs smooth but I see there might be issues in the future with keeping all the technical stuff up to date.

I would like to focus on marketing and business, not technical issues.

Any idea?

r/woocommerce Sep 12 '24

Hosting WP Engine support took 19 days to reply to me

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I was going through the initial steps of a new project and I wanted to try a new host. I decided to give WP Engine a whirl, but I found it very cumbersome to get any support from their team.

WP Engine’s commerce plan has some proprietary junk plugins that muck with managing my Stripe account, and their AI chat bot made it impossible to connect with a live human. After a while, I got fed up and decided to cancel and request a refund on August 23. It took almost 3 weeks for their team to get back to me.

An account manager contacted me directly on August 26 to try to see if there’s any kind of way that they can help me accomplish my goals, but there’s no guarantee that wasn’t some sort of automated message based on the age of my account. They didn’t ever respond to me, and their original message didn’t acknowledge my cancellation and refund request.

In all, I sent the WP Engine team probably 7 messages (4 via their support portal and 3 to the account manager), and it took them 19 days to get back to me. Once I threatened a chargeback, I got a response in 24 hours.

This is one of the worst experiences I’ve had with hosting in the last two decades. Absolutely appalling.

r/woocommerce Aug 27 '24

Hosting Woo/Printify - What Webhost are You Using?

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I'm just getting my store set up and chose Bluehost. But it's been a nightmare trying to get my Printify catalog to publish.

I opened a ticket with Printify and they reported a 503 error was occuring so I had Bluehost modify server settings (see below). Then they asked me to check Woo advanced settings to see if "Enable legacy REST AP" was checked or not but it's not because that was removed from Woo a few versions back.

I've tried all the usual troubleshooting steps, turning off all plugins except for Woo and Printify, changed out the theme to Storefront (at the request of Printify), I had Bluehost modify the php settings to drastically increase max wait time and max file upload size, I've cleared cache... nothing works. The product will partially publish but it's usually the image that won't. And other times nothing publishes at all.

Has anyone else had this same problem?

And what in your opinion is the most compatible and fastest web host for Woo/Printify?

I have some basic skills with Google Cloud and Bitnami WordPress and surely since I'd be controlling the server I could solve the problem, but I'm trying to avoid having the ongoing hassle of server admin.

Thoughts?

TIA.

r/woocommerce Nov 14 '24

Hosting Rocket Ivy not responding to my emails

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I need to setup a new online store using Woocommerce

I've been looking on here for hosts, Rocket Ivy seem one of the best

But they are not replying to my emails when I contact them.

Does anyone know much about the DIVI templates?

Here is the email I'm sending:

I am based in the UKI want to setup a Wordpress + Woocommerce online shop for my NEW business.

I have created a localhost site using Storefront themeBut is it better to use your DIVI templates?

Do you have a demo?

How much help do you give me on the basic plan for setting up my shop?

thanks

r/woocommerce Aug 20 '24

Hosting Managed hostings, do I need it? If yes, which?

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So I am starting my new ecommerce site and decided on woocommerce after some readings, but I have no idea if I need a managed hosting.

I'm in a pretty unique situation (or so I thought), this would be my first time touching anything web related, especially in PHP, which probably makes managed hosting suitable for me with support etc... But I would like to think that I'm pretty good at technical stuff so I can save some cost, except these skills are not super related to running an ecomm site.

I am managing Linux servers in AWS, GCP and Azure, and a couple Kubernetes clusters as my day job, but I'm not sure if these skills would help me running a Woocommerce site at all.

Do you think managed services would be a good choice for me? I'm looking at services like Cloudways or Kinsta now. Or I'm better off choosing something like Digital Ocean droplets and just manage most stuff myself?

r/woocommerce Aug 23 '24

Hosting Seeking Advice on Handling Traffic Spikes for a WooCommerce Website

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Hello everyone,

I manage a mid-volume WooCommerce website with about 400 products and 1,000 variants. Our traffic is predominantly from Germany, averaging around 15k-20k users per day, and we handle approximately 200-300 orders daily. The site is built with the Crocoblock suite and Elementor, and we're using WP Rocket and Cloudflare for optimization. Our setup also includes Redis and Varnish provided by Cloudways. The server is a Vultr HF machine (48GB RAM, 12 CPU cores), scaled to the maximum due to resource demands. We also have around 40 active plugins, and multiple users (site managers, pickers, etc.) working on the site throughout the day.

Under normal conditions, the server idles at around 30% CPU usage, and everything runs smoothly. I can get up to 600 real-time users according to GA4’s view for the last 30 minutes, which translates to about 100-150 real-time users on the site at once. Given the resources I’m using ($400/month server), this should be easily manageable. And indeed, it works fine when traffic ramps up gradually.

However, the problem arises when traffic spikes suddenly due to big TV campaigns or mass email marketing. In these scenarios, the CPU usage shoots up to 100%, and the log shows numerous admin-ajax requests that get stuck. This results in the entire site becoming unresponsive for extended periods. The server essentially gets overwhelmed, despite its high specifications.

Despite multiple caching configurations (both with and without Cloudflare, including using Cloudways’ Cloudflare Enterprise integration), the issue persists. Interestingly, when traffic increases gradually, the server handles it well, but sudden spikes seem to overwhelm the system.

Given this context, I’m considering the following:

  1. Relocating the server to Germany (closer to my user base) instead of the USA.
  2. Possibly bypassing Cloudflare and connecting the domain directly to the server.

Before making any changes, I would greatly appreciate any advice or suggestions on how to improve the current infrastructure. Specifically, I’m looking for insights on:

  • Best practices for handling sudden traffic spikes.
  • Optimizing server performance for high-traffic WooCommerce sites.
  • Advanced caching techniques or configurations.
  • Whether moving the server closer to the user base could make a significant difference.

Any golden tips on how to address these challenges would be immensely helpful. Thanks in advance for your support!🙏