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Hosting For Magento

Give Magento the machine it expects

A KVM VPS with root in your hands, NVMe storage, free SSL and the whole caching stack in place — so Magento keeps its pace as the catalogue grows. From $13.52/mo.

$9.99

Where pricing on the Magento VPS tiers begins

Full root

Every layer takes your orders

Free SSL

Encryption holds right through the checkout, end to end

NVMe

The same across the tiers

Why Magento Sits Here

What holds a Magento store up as it grows

Datacentre racks carrying the load a Magento catalogue puts on them

Arranged around large catalogues

Reserve the VPS resources, sit NVMe underneath, and a catalogue of thousands of SKUs, the images hanging off each one, and every filtered search all come back without hesitation.

The whole caching stack, in your hands

Varnish, Redis and OPcache run together on hardware taking orders from you and from no other tenant. Which is why a cached Magento page, or a session, returns in milliseconds where it used to take seconds.

SSL without an invoice

From the first day, certificates cover the storefront and the checkout. Reissues happen with nobody asking for them, and the padlock is already up before a shopper reaches for a card.

CPU and RAM reserved in your name

CPU and RAM are set aside under KVM virtualisation, yours and no one else's. Let the other tenants on that host get as busy as they like; your store keeps its share right through a rush.

It grows when you say so

More orders arrive, more traffic follows, and a handful of clicks lifts you onto a bigger tier. Nothing shifts underneath: your data and the Magento configuration sit exactly where you left them.

Root access, nothing fenced

Elasticsearch, the PHP extensions, when cron fires, whatever tooling your build turns out to need. You are the only person this server listens to.

An order going through on a shop that never made the buyer wait for it

Deep Catalogues

Thousands of SKUs, no slowdown

Hosting without enough behind it gives way as soon as a catalogue gets serious. Attribute-rich products, layered navigation and faceted search all press hard on the database and on the search engine at once. Hold VPS resources in reserve, lay NVMe below them, and Magento keeps turning out category pages and filters no matter how far into the thousands the product count climbs.

  • CPU and RAM reserved for you
  • NVMe the whole way through
  • Lag-free layered navigation
  • A stack that takes Elasticsearch

Pricing

Magento VPS tiers, priced plainly

Whether it is a first build or a busy store, each tier includes full root access, NVMe storage and a dedicated IP.

1 Core Unmanaged VPS

The first rung: a server nobody else touches

$13.52/mo

the price never jumps at renewal

vCPU cores
1
RAM
1 GB DDR4
SSD disk
25 GB
Root access
Full
  • Full root access, no locked doors
  • Runs on KVM virtualisation
  • 24 Linux and BSD images ready to go
  • London or Dallas - pick your data centre
  • 1 Tbps+ DDoS filtering up front
  • 20 Gbps uplink on every hypervisor
  • SSD disk space included
  • Bolt on cPanel whenever you want it
  • Snapshot backups on demand
  • Add extra SSD disks in seconds
  • Reboot, rebuild and console from your panel
  • Nothing to pay at setup, and the build begins once your payment clears
  • Humans on support 24/7, not bots
Deploy Magento

The order gets finalised over at Hosting Cheap, the shared billing system that sits behind all of our brands.

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2 Core Unmanaged VPS

Enough runway for a real workload

$20.28/mo

the price never jumps at renewal

vCPU cores
2
RAM
2 GB DDR4
SSD disk
50 GB
Root access
Full
  • Full root access, no locked doors
  • Runs on KVM virtualisation
  • 24 Linux and BSD images ready to go
  • London or Dallas - pick your data centre
  • 1 Tbps+ DDoS filtering up front
  • 20 Gbps uplink on every hypervisor
  • SSD disk space included
  • Bolt on cPanel whenever you want it
  • Snapshot backups on demand
  • Add extra SSD disks in seconds
  • Reboot, rebuild and console from your panel
  • Nothing to pay at setup, and the build begins once your payment clears
  • Humans on support 24/7, not bots
Deploy Magento

The order gets finalised over at Hosting Cheap, the shared billing system that sits behind all of our brands.

4 Core Unmanaged VPS

Built for busy apps and small fleets

$33.81/mo

the price never jumps at renewal

vCPU cores
4
RAM
4 GB DDR4
SSD disk
75 GB
Root access
Full
  • Full root access, no locked doors
  • Runs on KVM virtualisation
  • 24 Linux and BSD images ready to go
  • London or Dallas - pick your data centre
  • 1 Tbps+ DDoS filtering up front
  • 20 Gbps uplink on every hypervisor
  • SSD disk space included
  • Bolt on cPanel whenever you want it
  • Snapshot backups on demand
  • Add extra SSD disks in seconds
  • Reboot, rebuild and console from your panel
  • Nothing to pay at setup, and the build begins once your payment clears
  • Humans on support 24/7, not bots
Deploy Magento

The order gets finalised over at Hosting Cheap, the shared billing system that sits behind all of our brands.

6 Core Unmanaged VPS

For memory-hungry stacks that can't wait

$67.63/mo

the price never jumps at renewal

vCPU cores
6
RAM
8 GB DDR4
SSD disk
100 GB
Root access
Full
  • Full root access, no locked doors
  • Runs on KVM virtualisation
  • 24 Linux and BSD images ready to go
  • London or Dallas - pick your data centre
  • 1 Tbps+ DDoS filtering up front
  • 20 Gbps uplink on every hypervisor
  • SSD disk space included
  • Bolt on cPanel whenever you want it
  • Snapshot backups on demand
  • Add extra SSD disks in seconds
  • Reboot, rebuild and console from your panel
  • Nothing to pay at setup, and the build begins once your payment clears
  • Humans on support 24/7, not bots
Deploy Magento

The order gets finalised over at Hosting Cheap, the shared billing system that sits behind all of our brands.

8 Core Unmanaged VPS

Production-grade, flat out

$108.22/mo

the price never jumps at renewal

vCPU cores
8
RAM
16 GB DDR4
SSD disk
200 GB
Root access
Full
  • Full root access, no locked doors
  • Runs on KVM virtualisation
  • 24 Linux and BSD images ready to go
  • London or Dallas - pick your data centre
  • 1 Tbps+ DDoS filtering up front
  • 20 Gbps uplink on every hypervisor
  • SSD disk space included
  • Bolt on cPanel whenever you want it
  • Snapshot backups on demand
  • Add extra SSD disks in seconds
  • Reboot, rebuild and console from your panel
  • Nothing to pay at setup, and the build begins once your payment clears
  • Humans on support 24/7, not bots
Deploy Magento

The order gets finalised over at Hosting Cheap, the shared billing system that sits behind all of our brands.

10 Core Unmanaged VPS

Full throttle, sustained

$270.57/mo

the price never jumps at renewal

vCPU cores
10
RAM
32 GB DDR4
SSD disk
400 GB
Root access
Full
  • Full root access, no locked doors
  • Runs on KVM virtualisation
  • 24 Linux and BSD images ready to go
  • London or Dallas - pick your data centre
  • 1 Tbps+ DDoS filtering up front
  • 20 Gbps uplink on every hypervisor
  • SSD disk space included
  • Bolt on cPanel whenever you want it
  • Snapshot backups on demand
  • Add extra SSD disks in seconds
  • Reboot, rebuild and console from your panel
  • Nothing to pay at setup, and the build begins once your payment clears
  • Humans on support 24/7, not bots
Deploy Magento

The order gets finalised over at Hosting Cheap, the shared billing system that sits behind all of our brands.

Timing a page load the way the person waiting on it experiences the wait

Full-Stack Caching

Varnish, Redis and OPcache, all running on hardware you control

Caching sits at the middle of how Magento's architects built it, and root access is what lets the full stack behave as intended. Whole pages come from Varnish. Sessions and the object cache belong to Redis. Compiled code waits in OPcache. What reaches the shopper, storefront and checkout alike, arrives in milliseconds rather than being assembled from scratch on every request.

  • Whole pages straight out of Varnish
  • Sessions and the object cache in Redis
  • Compiled PHP kept warm in OPcache
  • Every dial set to your build

Where It Fits

Magento stores at every stage

A retailer checking over catalogue products inside the Magento admin panel

A Magento build from scratch

Begin with an empty server, put Magento Open Source on it, and open a storefront that responds without delay. Every restriction shared hosting would have placed on you is absent.

A catalogue that keeps climbing

Put reserved resources next to NVMe drives and a catalogue running into thousands, heavy with attributes and layered navigation, still answers at speed.

Heavyweight sale days

Full-page caching absorbs the first wave of a launch, a promotion or the peak trading season. Where the surge outruns caching, moving up a tier is one click.

The filtering that absorbs an attack well before it reaches the site

Checkout, Locked

Free SSL, on hardware that carries no other tenant

Shoppers who feel exposed walk away from the basket before paying for anything. Free SSL encrypts the storefront and the checkout end to end, and since your Magento install is the only tenant, no second account is ever placed on that machine. That kind of isolation, set against current TLS, gives you the footing to meet PCI requirements with your payment gateway.

  • SSL free, reissuing on its own
  • One tenant on the machine: you
  • The checkout on current TLS
  • The foundation layer of PCI compliance
Traffic climbing while the plan underneath takes it in its stride

Room To Move

From opening day right through to the busiest trading week of the year

Take the tier your store needs this month, and grow it later when the trading figures make the case. An upgrade touches nothing above the resource line, which means the Magento files, the database and the configuration all sit precisely where they were. Nothing migrates. A promotion lands, or a holiday spike drags traffic up, and extra CPU, RAM and storage are a couple of clicks from being yours. No downtime either.

  • A few clicks up to the next tier
  • CPU, RAM and storage to hand
  • The data staying exactly in place
  • Re-platforming never required

The Route In

An empty server going in, a trading storefront coming out

Stage by stage, Magento coming up on a VPS server
  1. 1

    Choose the right VPS

    Match the tier to the size of your catalogue and the traffic you expect through it. Root access in full and NVMe storage arrive with all of them, from the first day.

  2. 2

    Build Magento to your own spec

    Build Magento 2 the way you want it built. Which PHP version runs, how the Composer workflow is arranged, the shape of the Elasticsearch layout, which caching layers go on top: every one of those decisions belongs to you, and nobody here has made it in advance.

  3. 3

    Open, then move up

    Aim the name at the server, turn free SSL on, and orders can start coming in. When the store needs more room, stepping up a tier takes a single move.

All Included

Standard on every VPS tier

  • Full root, nothing out of bounds
  • Reserved resources under KVM
  • End-to-end NVMe storage
  • Support for Varnish, Redis and OPcache
  • Self-renewing SSL certificate
  • Elasticsearch-ready stack
  • Pick whichever PHP version suits, and Composer comes with it
  • Remote MySQL, SSH and cron control
  • Network-level DDoS defence
  • Support staffed by people, at any hour

What Magento Demands

The stack Magento 2 requires

Magento was designed to ask a great deal of its environment. Here is that checklist, and every line of it runs on a root-access VPS.

Hardware specified against the technical requirements Magento 2 lays down

A current PHP 8.x release

Magento 2.4 will not go below PHP 8.1, and it wants bcmath, intl, gd and soap enabled alongside. The release your codebase expects is the release we pin the server to.

Search sized for catalogues

Searching the catalogue on Magento 2.4 means OpenSearch or Elasticsearch. Whichever you pick sits on the same VPS, sized against how many products you list and how many queries come through.

MySQL / MariaDB

Split catalogue, orders and indexes across up to 100 MariaDB databases, with phpMyAdmin over the top. Query times hold steady as the product list grows, since the resources behind them are reserved.

Composer and the CLI

Over SSH you handle dependencies and run bin/magento, Git and Composer to hand, so deployment and reindexing follow the route Adobe writes down for it.

RAM for the caching layers

Every caching layer you add takes its own cut of memory. Run Varnish, Redis and OPcache together and 2 GB is the honest floor. A catalogue that is actually trading will be considerably happier from 4 GB upward.

Room to grow into

Is reindexing crawling? Has the admin turned sluggish? Does checkout stumble when load arrives? Each of those is a signal to move up a VPS tier.

FAQ

Magento merchants, answered

Is this hardware genuinely up to Magento 2?

It runs well here, and the reason is structural. Every plan is a KVM VPS with full root, so the shared-hosting ceilings Magento usually collides with are simply absent, and Adobe's own documentation can be followed line by line. Choosing a PHP 8.x release comes first, together with enabling the extensions Magento requires: intl, bcmath, soap, gd and ctype among that list. Composer then fetches the codebase, which is a great deal less painful than fighting a locked file manager. This hardware carries Magento Open Source and Adobe Commerce equally well. Wiring in OpenSearch or Elasticsearch, and settling when cron takes on indexing and order processing, is left completely to you. Since root belongs to you, PHP upgrades, platform patches and any new tooling move on your timetable, with nothing walled off. Network, hardware and the DDoS shield are our responsibility. Shaping the Magento environment is yours.

Which tier does a heavy catalogue need?

Memory and search capacity are what to size first, with disk trailing behind them. A few hundred straightforward products will sit contentedly on an entry tier, but bring in thousands of SKUs carrying configurable options, layered navigation and faceted filters and both the database and the search engine begin asking for genuine memory. Once catalogue and caching are running side by side, roughly 4 GB is a realistic floor, and you ought to budget above it if reindexing happens often or large imports go through regularly. Big catalogue already? Take a mid-range tier and let real load tell you how the admin and the reindexing jobs actually behave. All-NVMe storage, plus CPU and RAM reserved on every plan, keeps imagery and category filtering responsive as the item count climbs. Going up later costs a couple of clicks and leaves files, database and configuration untouched, which makes resizing a decision rather than a project.

Where does the speed come from?

Nearly all of it comes down to allowing Magento to cache the way its architects intended, rather than putting a lid on what it may do. Tune the PHP-FPM pool. With root on a VPS of your own, Varnish can sit out at the front serving whole pages, Redis can hold sessions and the object cache, and OPcache can keep compiled PHP warm and ready. A cached storefront, or a category page, then comes back in milliseconds instead of being assembled again for every request. Below that, NVMe end to end with CPU and RAM booked against your name keeps indexing runs, image processing and database queries clear of any queue behind a slow disk or a neighbour's workload. Push cron reindexing into the quiet hours. Give the search engine a process to itself. Because the resources are yours and nobody else's, the figures you measure on a calm afternoon are the figures your busiest trading day will produce, not a laboratory number that collapses the moment real shoppers turn up.

Can PCI requirements be met on this setup?

Yes, and the starting position is a good one, since the Magento install holds the machine on its own. Nothing is shared with anybody, and that alone takes an entire class of cross-account risk off the table before you have altered a single setting. Free SSL reissues itself on current TLS and encrypts storefront and checkout alike, while DDoS defences at network level keep the store trading through an attack. Decisions sit with you because root does: how tightly the admin is fenced, how far SSH is restricted, when PHP and platform patches land, which file permissions are applied. On that footing, following Adobe's hardening guidance to the letter stops being awkward. PCI compliance is work that gets divided up. Put Magento behind a gateway that tokenises the card and no raw number ever lands on your machine, which usually places you in the lighter SAQ A or A-EP band. We supply the isolated, encrypted, monitored foundation. Your gateway, your extensions and your own internal practice account for the rest, and our team is available for anything on the infrastructure or network side.

Will you move the Magento store I run now?

We do. Sign up, raise a ticket that gives us access to your current host, and our engineers carry the store across whole: code, database, media library, and whatever custom configuration you have built. More parts travel in a Magento move than in most, so the caching setup, the cron jobs and the search index all come too, not simply the raw files. Usually the build arrives on the new machine as a staging copy, which lets you walk the storefront and push a test purchase through before any of it is public. Satisfied? Point DNS at the new VPS, then switch free SSL on. Shoppers notice little or no gap, because the copy has been sitting there already. Orders, customer records and product data all arrive intact. Running extensions that are out of the ordinary? Say so early and the plan gets built around them.

Who administers the server, you or me?

That falls to you. Self-management is deliberate on these plans, and it is the exchange that buys root access, custom PHP builds and a hand-tuned caching stack at this sort of price. From the operating system upward, the calls are yours to make: the Magento install itself, the extensions, the cron schedules, how caching is configured, when updates land. Our side of the arrangement sits beneath all that, meaning the physical hardware, KVM virtualisation, the London datacentre network and the DDoS defences, each kept in good order without any involvement from you. Infrastructure, provisioning and network questions reach support at any hour, and a resize or a connectivity fault gets picked up there too. Would you rather not spend your week on day-to-day Magento administration? A great many merchants pay a developer or an agency to look after the application layer while we hold the VPS underneath it quick, online and secure around the clock.

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Magento wants a machine to itself. This is that machine.

Full root, the complete caching stack and free SSL on quick NVMe — and real people to reach at any hour.

See Magento Tiers

Magento is heavy software, and pretending it is not is how a product page comes to take five seconds. It wants memory, PHP workers and storage that never hesitates. Your store sits on NVMe drives with LiteSpeed caching and a 99.9% uptime SLA our monitoring desk answers for.

It suits shop owners running Magento builds, and the essentials are fitted rather than upsold: a free certificate on every domain, a migration run by our team, nightly backups, and support reachable at any hour.

Muscle for a heavyweight store

Magento gets a current PHP release with a generous memory ceiling, OPcache in front of its compiled code and NVMe beneath the database. Cron drives the indexing, order processing and admin queues, and the command line is there for setup:upgrade and cache flushes rather than hopeful clicking in the admin.

The hardware carries the weight: 100% NVMe storage, LiteSpeed over HTTP/2, and a 99.9% uptime SLA our monitoring desk stands behind. Quick pages please visitors and search engines equally.

Magento's real requirements

No second price waits in year two. The listed rate is the invoiced rate, this term and every term after, and any opening offer shows its renewal figure beside it. Servers are built to order for you alone, so they sit outside the money-back window; talk to us before committing and we will size the machine honestly.

Modest catalogues run on the larger shared tiers. Serious ones belong on a KVM VPS from $13.52 a month with root and reserved resources, and we tell you which side you are on before you order rather than after.

An order going through on a shop that never made the buyer wait for it

Magento's setup on our stack

Shops run on NVMe arrays in our London datacentre with edge DDoS filtering, nightly backups and a free certificate on checkout. As the catalogue grows the plan scales while the shop stays exactly where it is.

We do not wait for a customer to report an outage. Fleet monitoring runs minute by minute and wakes an engineer first, so what usually reaches you is the fix rather than the fault.

  • OPcache plus high PHP memory ceilings
  • The Magento CLI gets full shell access
  • a 99.9% uptime SLA backed by service credits
  • Daily backups you restore yourself, in one click

Good to Know

More that's built in

Sizing advice without spin

We would sooner warn you a shared plan is too small than take the order and watch the shop limp.

A panel that stays out of the way

Everyday tools are two clicks deep at most, and none of them is held back for a bigger tier.

Scale up without relocating

A larger plan is one confirmation away, and you pay only the difference from the day you switch.

Free to leave any time

Standard panels and standard backups make leaving simple whenever you choose. Most customers never do.

Fast from the first byte

Your store runs on NVMe storage with LiteSpeed caching in front, quick before you touch a setting.

HTTPS at no cost

Every domain gets a certificate issued and renewed for it, and it never appears on a bill.

Getting Going

Getting going takes three steps

  1. 1

    Select a tier

    Tell us the size of the catalogue and we help you decide shared or VPS.

  2. 2

    Hook up the domain

    Connect the shop's domain and let the certificate install itself.

  3. 3

    Open for traffic

    Install Magento, or give us the old host for a free migration.

In Every Plan

Thrown in without an extra charge

  • Built to order, so the specification is agreed with you first
  • Indexing and orders driven by cron
  • A clear route up to a VPS as the shop grows
  • HTTP/2 enabled on LiteSpeed servers
  • Network-edge DDoS filtering as standard
  • WHOIS privacy at no cost on every registry that allows it
  • One-click installer covering 240+ apps
  • Accounts provisioned minutes after checkout

Still Curious

Questions that keep coming up

Is shared hosting enough for Magento?

For a small shop of a few hundred products and modest traffic, yes. Beyond that Magento wants CPU and memory reserved for it, which means a VPS from $13.52 a month. Give our desk the catalogue size and the order volume and the answer comes back straight either way.

Do I wait around after ordering?

The panel login reaches you within minutes. If the store currently lives elsewhere, we copy it across first, test it, and only then repoint the DNS.

Does Magento hosting come with SSL?

Nothing at all. Certificates install themselves and re-issue comfortably before they expire.

What if Magento hosting proves to be the wrong size?

Machines like these are put together to your specification, so they carry no money-back window, which is why we would rather get the sizing right at the outset than sell you more than you need. Tell the team the workload before ordering and they will recommend a tier honestly. Outgrowing it later is a resize rather than a repurchase.

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