Ecommerce Hosting

A shop handles money and personal data, so security is not optional. SSL, firewalls, backups and PCI compliance work together to keep customers and card details safe.

Core Web Vitals are the metrics Google uses to score real-world speed. For a shop, strong scores mean happier shoppers, better ranking and more completed orders.

Every online shop needs a baseline of server specs to run well. The main ones are a modern PHP version, enough memory, fast storage, a solid database and SSL.

Self-hosted shops and hosted platforms solve the same goal in different ways. One hands you full control, the other trades control for simplicity and less upkeep.

Choosing ecommerce hosting comes down to matching a plan to your store. Work through your traffic, budget and skill, then weigh speed, support and security in that order.

Managed hosting saves time but costs more. Whether you need it comes down to your skill, your traffic and how much of the server work you want to handle yourself.

A fast shop keeps shoppers moving towards checkout. Speed comes from the server, the caching, the images and the code all pulling in the same direction.

Managed and shared hosting sit at opposite ends of the ecommerce scale. One does the heavy lifting for you, the other keeps costs low and hands you the controls.

Ecommerce hosting can cost a few pounds a month or a few hundred, depending on the tier. The right spend matches your traffic, catalogue size and how much help you want.

Ecommerce hosting is web hosting set up to run a self-hosted online shop. Good hosting keeps your store fast, stable and ready to take orders at any hour.