A storefront built for taking orders, not just traffic

It is. WordPress and WooCommerce both arrive pre-installed on every plan, which skips the fiddly opening stage and drops you straight into a dashboard ready for products, shipping zones and a payment gateway. Would you rather start from a blank install? Softaculous reinstalls either one in seconds, and it carries 240-plus other applications you can add to the same account. Underneath, this is ordinary cPanel hosting, so you keep full file access, as many as 100 MySQL or MariaDB databases, and phpMyAdmin whenever you want to look at the data directly. Both WordPress and WooCommerce are open source, meaning any theme or extension you fancy is fair game, and nothing is skimmed off your orders as a per-sale fee. Already trading somewhere else? Our team will move the shop across rather than leaving you to rebuild it from nothing.

That is the scenario the whole setup was built around. AccelerateWP caching understands WooCommerce, so catalogue and content pages come out of cache while baskets, sessions, coupons and live stock stay dynamic and correct — nobody is ever shown a stale price or somebody else's basket. Behind that sit all-NVMe storage, LiteSpeed over HTTP/2 and current PHP 8.x builds, keeping response times short as concurrent visitors pile in. Because most pages are served rather than rebuilt, one plan absorbs considerably more traffic than its written specification suggests. If a big promotion pushes past that ceiling anyway, moving up a tier is a couple of clicks and hands you extra CPU and RAM with no migration and no downtime. Expecting a spike? Scale up beforehand, step back down when it passes, and keep the till quick when it matters most.

Every store carries free SSL that reissues itself, running on current TLS, so the entire checkout is encrypted rather than only the card field — and shoppers get the padlock that tells them it is safe to buy. Accounts sit isolated and hardened, with a web application firewall, malware scanning and network-level DDoS protection on watch around the clock. Full PCI compliance is shared work, and it is simpler than most owners expect: gateways such as Stripe and PayPal handle card numbers on their own systems, so raw card details never reach your server and you stay in the easiest self-assessment band. Our half of the deal is the isolated, monitored, encrypted foundation underneath. Your half is keeping WooCommerce and its plugins current, using strong admin passwords and choosing a gateway worth trusting. Together that is a till customers hand their card details to without hesitating.

Automatic off-site backups and one-click restores come with every plan, so a plugin update gone wrong, a broken theme tweak or a plain human slip is easy to undo without losing orders. The copies live away from the main server, which means your data survives even if the live site itself hits trouble. The schedule varies by tier: standard plans run on a regular daily-style rhythm, while the Elite Store tier snapshots as often as every four hours — worth having if orders arrive all day long. Restoring is one click from the control panel, and because staging is bundled in, you can rehearse anything risky on a copy and publish only once you are satisfied. Keeping your own independent copy of anything truly mission-critical is still sound practice, but for day-to-day protection the built-in backups already do the job.

Yes, and the move is free. Once you have signed up, open a ticket with the logins for your current host and our team carries the whole shop across — WordPress and WooCommerce, the database, product images and media, plus your existing orders and customer records. Most transfers finish inside roughly 24 hours, and the bulk of the work happens on the new server before we touch anything live, so shoppers see little or no interruption at the till. Wherever possible we stage the store first, letting you click through it and place a test order to confirm it all landed properly before DNS changes hands. Once you are happy, point the domain our way and free SSL switches itself on, so the till is encrypted from your first minute live. Running an unusual theme or a stack of custom extensions? Mention it in the ticket and we will plan around it.

It comes down to expected traffic and order volume, not product count — every tier holds up to 100,000 products either way. Launch Store is the natural opening choice for a new shop still finding its feet, and it bundles everything needed to trade: WooCommerce, a free domain, SSL and store caching. Pro Store adds CPU, RAM and breathing space as the catalogue and visitor numbers build, which suits an established shop taking steady daily orders. Elite Store is aimed at busy, high-traffic operations and backs up as frequently as every four hours for extra peace of mind. The important part is that no choice locks you in: upgrades apply instantly, take a couple of clicks, and leave catalogue, orders and settings exactly where they were. Start on whichever tier matches today, watch how it behaves under real traffic, and move when the numbers tell you to.