OpenCart Store Hosting
Run OpenCart lean, and keep what every order earns you
One-click installs, PHP 8.x tuning, multi-store support, free SSL and a 99.9% uptime target on quick NVMe — the whole shop kit, from $4.19/mo.
1-click
Shop trading within minutes
Free SSL
Encryption on every checkout
$4.19
Where OpenCart hosting starts
PHP 8.x
Tuned for both OpenCart 3 and 4
Why Buy Your OpenCart Hosting Here
What an OpenCart shop needs if it is to shift more stock
A till that closes the sale
All-NVMe hardware, paired with OpenCart-aware caching, shaves milliseconds off catalogue and payment pages, and more shoppers get as far as the confirmation screen as a result.
Payments guarded, PCI-ready
Free SSL, current TLS and accounts kept apart from each other give the checkout a footing that sits well with whichever PCI-compliant gateway you plug in.
99.9% uptime, credited if we miss
Hardware sits redundant in a London datacentre, which keeps the shutters up, and where a month drops below target you earn a pro-rated credit. That holds on the days when every trading hour counts.
Scales with your order book
As volume climbs, add CPU, RAM and storage in a handful of clicks. Nothing gets re-platformed, nothing gets migrated, and your catalogue and extension settings stay precisely where they were.
Watched over, day and night
Behind the scenes a web application firewall, malware scanning and daily backups look after the shop, the people buying from it, and every order that comes in.
People on the other end, 24/7
Downtime is trade you never get back, so engineers answer the tickets and the email, not scripts, at whatever hour the problem decides to turn up.
Quick Checkout
A checkout pace shoppers actually feel
One extra second on a page can turn into an order that never arrives at all. This OpenCart environment runs on all-NVMe hardware with store-specific caching, so catalogue, basket and payment pages open fast even under load, while coupons, sessions and live stock levels carry on behaving exactly the way they should.
- All-NVMe drives
- Caching written around OpenCart
- Fewer baskets abandoned
- Catalogue and payment pages that open fast
Secure And PCI-Ready
Take payments on ground that will hold
Nobody reaches for a card until the screen has earned their trust. Free SSL encrypts the OpenCart checkout from end to end, while account isolation, a web application firewall and malware scanning between them keep the shop bolted down. That is the groundwork for meeting PCI requirements alongside whichever gateway you happen to use.
- Free SSL on every store
- Accounts hardened and fully isolated
- A web firewall, plus malware scans
- Current TLS at the checkout
Pricing
OpenCart plans, with the figures printed on the label
Every plan carries a one-click OpenCart install, SSL, a free domain and headroom to grow — catalogues up to 100,000 products, up to 200 GB of NVMe storage and up to 5 TB of bandwidth.
Launch OpenCart
Your first OpenCart shop, open for business
$4.19/mo
$50.28 today · billed annually
the renewal price is the same
- SSD storage
- 10 GB
- Storefronts
- 1
- Bandwidth
- 1 TB
- CPU / RAM
- 1 core / 2 GB
- Products
- 5,000
- One click puts OpenCart on the shelf
- PHP 8.x tuned around what OpenCart asks for
- Free SSL so the checkout stays locked
- Staging copies and backups refreshed daily
- SSH, Git and Composer at the command line
- A free domain name comes in the box
- NVMe SSD underneath, LiteSpeed cache in front
- Moving a shop in? We carry it across, free
- ImunifyAV+ watches the shop for malware
- Softaculous puts 240+ apps up in one click
- Mailboxes on your own domain, included
- HTTPS throughout, ready for the PCI questions
- Real people answer, round the clock
Orders are rung up on Hosting Cheap, which is the billing platform behind our checkout.
Pro OpenCart
Enough space to stock a far longer list of products
$5.59/mo
$67.08 today · billed annually
the renewal price is the same
- SSD storage
- 20 GB
- Storefronts
- 25
- Bandwidth
- 2 TB
- CPU / RAM
- 2 cores / 4 GB
- Products
- 25,000
- One click puts OpenCart on the shelf
- PHP 8.x tuned around what OpenCart asks for
- Free SSL so the checkout stays locked
- Staging copies and backups refreshed daily
- SSH, Git and Composer at the command line
- A free domain name comes in the box
- NVMe SSD underneath, LiteSpeed cache in front
- Moving a shop in? We carry it across, free
- ImunifyAV+ watches the shop for malware
- Softaculous puts 240+ apps up in one click
- Mailboxes on your own domain, included
- HTTPS throughout, ready for the PCI questions
- Real people answer, round the clock
Orders are rung up on Hosting Cheap, which is the billing platform behind our checkout.
Elite OpenCart
OpenCart hosting built to cope with a busy trading day
$9.09/mo
$109.08 today · billed annually
the renewal price is the same
- SSD storage
- 200 GB
- Storefronts
- 100
- Bandwidth
- 5 TB
- CPU / RAM
- 3 cores / 6 GB
- Products
- 100,000
- One click puts OpenCart on the shelf
- PHP 8.x tuned around what OpenCart asks for
- Imunify360 on duty, and a backup every 4 hours
- CloudLinux Pro throws in PHP X-Ray, which finds slow code
- SSH, Git and Composer at the command line
- Priority support, and a domain name we pay for
- NVMe SSD underneath, LiteSpeed cache in front
- Moving a shop in? We carry it across, free
- Python, Node.js and Ruby run here too
- Softaculous puts 240+ apps up in one click
- Mailboxes on your own domain, included
- HTTPS throughout, ready for the PCI questions
- Priority support, round the clock
Orders are rung up on Hosting Cheap, which is the billing platform behind our checkout.
Built To Last And Grow
Open when it matters, and roomy as it grows
Redundant London infrastructure, held to a 99.9% uptime target, keeps the shutters up on an ordinary Tuesday and through a seasonal surge alike. As order volume climbs, a few clicks step you up a tier, and your OpenCart catalogue, your customer records and every setting you have chosen all travel across untouched.
- 99.9% uptime, guaranteed
- A London datacentre with redundancy
- Tier upgrades in one click
- Nothing to re-platform or migrate
Built For
OpenCart shops at whatever stage they have reached
A shop opening from scratch
Sign up in the morning and you can be trading by the afternoon, with the one-click install, the free domain and SSL all standing before your first product reaches the shelf.
Several storefronts at once
One admin panel runs several OpenCart shops at once, and staging areas let you rehearse a change on any of them well before a customer sees it.
Peak seasons and spikes
Store-aware caching, plus resources you can scale on the day itself, keep the till open through a flash sale, a launch or the holiday crush.
Getting Started
From the order form to a first sale
- 1
Pick the tier for your shop
Launch, Pro or Elite, picked according to traffic and catalogue size. All three carry the one-click OpenCart install, SSL and the free domain.
- 2
Wire up your gateway
Bolt on whichever OpenCart payment extension you use, Stripe, PayPal or another, and the checkout stays encrypted and PCI-friendly, with card data never touching your server.
- 3
Open, then grow into it
Open for trade, watch orders land, and step up a tier in a few clicks on the day traffic and sales start wanting more room.
In The Box
On every OpenCart plan
- An OpenCart installer, one click
- Free SSL wrapped around every checkout
- PHP 8.x tuned around OpenCart
- A 99.9% uptime target, credited if missed
- NVMe drives, nothing slower
- Caching written for shops
- A domain covered for year one
- A daily backup kept off-site
- Firewall cover and malware scans
- Real people on support at any hour
FAQ
What OpenCart owners ask us
Which OpenCart releases run here?
Take your pick: the current OpenCart 4 releases run, and so does the long-established 3.x branch, whichever suits the shop and the extensions hanging off it. Give the one-click installer a few minutes and a clean, up-to-date copy is standing there, permissions on the files already correct and the database wired in, with nothing left to assemble by hand. Underneath, the server runs PHP 8.x carrying everything OpenCart expects of it. cURL, GD, mbstring, ZIP, the mysqli driver, all present. From the control panel you name the precise PHP version your theme and extensions were tested against. Moving an older shop in? First we match the version it runs on now, then help you step forward when the moment suits. Since OpenCart is open source and the install is yours, nobody forces a version on you ahead of your extensions. Your calendar governs upgrades, not ours.
Do I have to use OpenCart on these plans?
No, though the plans are laid out to make OpenCart easy, and we lean that way for a reason. The software is open source, light on resources and carries none of the per-sale transaction fees a lot of hosted platforms levy, so the margin on each order stays where you put it. Choose your theme, take extensions from the OpenCart marketplace, wire in whichever payment gateway you like. Prefer a different PHP shop? What sits beneath all this is ordinary cPanel hosting, Softaculous and its 240-plus one-click installers included, alongside SSH, Git and Composer for anything you would rather push up by hand. There are several MySQL or MariaDB databases at your disposal, phpMyAdmin too. Owners mostly stay with OpenCart because it is simple and demands little, yet the server ties you to no single platform.
So what actually makes an OpenCart shop load quickly?
Two things, mainly. How quickly the server reads and writes, and how clever the caching layer above it is. Every shop here sits on pure NVMe storage, well past the spinning disks and SATA SSDs a few budget hosts still run, so lookups for products, baskets and orders come straight back at once. The caching layer also understands the shape of OpenCart: catalogue and category pages come out of cache, while baskets, sessions, coupons and stock levels stay live and accurate, so nobody is shown a stale price or somebody else's basket. LiteSpeed with HTTP/2 and current PHP 8.x keeps request handling lean, and turning on OpenCart's own SEO URLs and template caching wins you a bit more. Because your account shares its resources with nobody, that pace holds as traffic grows. A quiet Tuesday and your busiest sale day feel much the same to it.
Is my OpenCart checkout secure and PCI-compliant?
Yes. The whole checkout runs encrypted on current TLS, thanks to free SSL that reissues itself, which protects card details and personal ones in transit on every page rather than at the payment step alone. Each account is isolated and hardened. In front of it sits a web application firewall filtering hostile requests, malware scanning keeping watch, and DDoS protection at network level so the shop carries on trading even when somebody has it in their sights. Compliance with PCI is shared work, mind. Most OpenCart payment extensions help here: Stripe, PayPal and the rest handle card numbers on the gateway's own systems, so raw card data never lands anywhere near your server. Your PCI scope stays small as a result, usually a brief self-assessment questionnaire, and the encrypted, isolated, monitored infrastructure below is our job. Update OpenCart and its extensions, guard the admin folder with a strong password, and shoppers get a till they can trust.
Can I run several shops from one account?
You can, and OpenCart ships multi-store in the box, which this hosting happens to suit. Additional storefronts get added from one admin panel, each carrying its own domain or subdomain, its own theme, its own product line-up, while one catalogue and one order queue sit behind them all. Aim each extra domain at the same OpenCart install, register it in the admin as a new store, and the whole lot runs from a single dashboard. Pure NVMe storage and store-aware caching are what let a handful of smaller shops share the space comfortably, with catalogues reaching up to 100,000 products between them. Say one storefront takes off. Move the account up a tier for extra CPU, RAM and storage, and every shop rides along with it. For running regional shops under a single brand, or a few niche shops alongside each other, it is a tidy arrangement, and it beats paying for separate hosting every time.
Can you carry my existing OpenCart shop over for me?
Yes, and it costs you nothing. Sign up, then open a ticket with the logins for your existing host, and the team brings the shop over: OpenCart files, every installed extension, the database, product images and media, along with the orders and customers you already have. Roughly 24 hours covers most transfers. Nearly all the heavy work happens on the new server before anything live gets touched, which keeps downtime at the till small or nonexistent. Where we can, the shop goes up on a staging area first, so you can click through it, place a test order and satisfy yourself that everything landed before DNS moves. Happy with what you see? Point the domain our way and free SSL comes on by itself. Unusual extensions, a custom theme, one particular PHP version: mention any of it in the ticket and we match your setup before starting work.
Pre-Launch Checklist
Ten items to tick off ahead of opening day
Run down this list before you take the first order. A few minutes here saves the problems that turn up most often on day one.
- Install SSL and force HTTPS on every page
- Put in the live gateway keys, then place one real test order
- Set up your tax classes, plus shipping zones and rates
- Write plain refund, delivery and privacy pages
- Switch on order confirmation and abandoned-basket emails
- Switch OpenCart SEO URLs on, then check they resolve
- Check that daily backups are running before opening day
- Load products carrying distinct names, photos and descriptions
- Attach the domain, then look for the padlock appearing
- Submit the sitemap so search engines can actually find the shop
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Get your OpenCart shop onto the shelf today.
A one-click install, free SSL and a free domain, on a platform built to keep the till quick, encrypted and open.
See Store PlansOpenCart's appeal is that it does not ask for much. Put it on NVMe storage with caching in front and a small shop feels instant without a large invoice. Every account here sits on NVMe storage behind LiteSpeed, in our London datacentre watched by the same engineers who answer the tickets.
Made for shopkeepers selling through OpenCart. Free SSL, a free move from your current host, a daily backup and round-the-clock support are all in the price, with nothing waiting at the till.
A light shop on quick hardware
Install OpenCart in a click, pick the PHP version your extensions expect and let LiteSpeed cache the catalogue pages. Free SSL covers the checkout, cron handles the scheduled jobs, and the file manager and phpMyAdmin are waiting when an extension needs fixing by hand.
Underneath, every store gets identical treatment — NVMe drives instead of spinning disks, LiteSpeed instead of a plain web server, and a 99.9% uptime figure written into the terms.
What an OpenCart shop costs
Billing ought to be boring: one figure, stated up front, repeated at renewal, with promotions marked plainly instead of buried in a footnote. Every hosting plan carries a 30-day money-back guarantee, so trying us out costs you an afternoon at worst.
A shop can open on the $2.42 tier and stay there for a long while. When it stops being small, the step up to a larger plan or a VPS is a click and a price you can read first.
How OpenCart is served
Stores run on NVMe storage behind LiteSpeed, in our London datacentre with daily backups of products and orders. DDoS filtering sits at the network edge, ahead of your till.
The unglamorous work — patching, monitoring, hardware replacement, filtering — is in the price and done by us. That is most of what you are actually buying.
- One-click OpenCart install
- Free SSL on checkout, renewed automatically
- DDoS filtering at the network edge
- Patching handled by our own engineers
Worth Knowing
What else you get in the box
Cheap to start, quick to run
A light platform on fast storage is the least expensive way to sell online without cutting corners.
Transfers cost nothing
Our team brings your existing store across for nothing, usually within a day.
Yesterday is always there
Daily snapshots run on their own, so a bad update costs you minutes instead of data.
Someone at the counter
The queue is staffed by engineers around the clock, and answers usually arrive within 15 minutes.
Same price next year
Plans renew at the figure you joined on, with no second price waiting in year two.
99.9% uptime, in writing
Redundant our London datacentre, automatic failover and monitoring that pages an engineer before you notice.
Starting Out
From order to live in three steps
- 1
Choose your tier
Take a tier that suits the catalogue you are planning.
- 2
Bring your domain
Point the shop's domain and take the free certificate.
- 3
Open for business
Install OpenCart in a click, or let us move the existing shop free.
On the Shelf
Also included, no extra charge
- Every hosting plan comes with 30 days to change your mind
- OpenCart in the installer catalogue
- Daily backups of products and orders
- Automatic daily backups on every plan
- a 99.9% uptime target credited against the SLA
- Support answered by people, 24 hours a day
- NVMe storage as standard, not as an upgrade
- Renews at the figure you signed up on
Still Asking
Other questions that keep coming up
Will my OpenCart extensions work here?
Nearly always. Most want a particular PHP version or a module such as cURL or GD, and both are set from the panel. If one refuses to behave, our desk looks at the error with you instead of pointing at the developer and closing the ticket.
Is there a wait after I order?
Straight away. Orders provision themselves, and if you would rather we set things up, the desk is staffed at whatever hour you happen to be reading this.
Does the renewal price differ from the sign-up price?
It renews at the price you joined on. Where a first-term promotion applies, its renewal figure is printed next to it before you order, so there is nothing to discover later.
What if OpenCart hosting is not the right fit?
There is a 30-day money-back guarantee on the plan. Ask inside the month and you get your money back: no exit interview, and nobody transferring you to a team whose job is talking you out of it.
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