Hosting For OpenCart
Run OpenCart lean and hold on to the margin
From $4.19/mo you get OpenCart installed in a click, PHP 8.x set the way you want it, and as many storefronts as the business needs — SSL free, NVMe beneath, 99.9% uptime on the clock.
1-click
A store trading in minutes
Free SSL
Every checkout encrypted
$4.19
Your opening monthly price
PHP 8.x
Both OpenCart 3 and 4 run here
Why Point OpenCart Here
All an OpenCart store needs if it is to keep selling
Checkout speed that converts
Caching that knows OpenCart, sitting on all-NVMe hardware, strips the wait out of catalogue and payment pages, so more shoppers get to the confirmation screen.
PCI-ready payment footing
Free SSL, current TLS and account isolation give your checkout a footing that any PCI-compliant gateway can build on without argument.
99.9% uptime, or a credit
We duplicate the hardware in our London facility so the store keeps answering, and should a month close below the target you earn a pro-rated credit for it. When every trading hour is money, that distinction matters.
It grows as orders stack up
Order volume on the way up? A few clicks buy more CPU, RAM and storage, and neither the catalogue nor a single extension setting gets touched. Nothing to re-platform. Nothing to migrate.
Guarded at every hour
Traffic passes a web application firewall on the way in, malware scanning goes looking for trouble, and a daily copy holds a fallback in reserve. Quiet machinery, guarding the store, its customers and every order placed.
Engineers answering, 24/7
Every minute offline is revenue gone. Engineers answer the tickets and the email, at whatever hour trouble turns up, and no canned script does it for them.
Checkout At Pace
A checkout that keeps nobody waiting about
Every second a page hangs, another order slips away without a sound. OpenCart here runs on NVMe drives throughout, behind caching that knows the shape of a retail site. Catalogue, basket and payment pages land at once, while coupons, sessions and live stock counts stay exactly current.
- NVMe drives only
- OpenCart-shaped caching rules
- Baskets that reach the payment page
- Catalogue and payment pages that open at once
Hardened For Payments
Card payments standing on ground that will not move
Nobody types a card number into a page they do not already trust. Free SSL wraps the OpenCart checkout end to end, and the store stays bolted down behind isolated accounts, a web application firewall and malware scans that run as a matter of routine. That is the base layer of PCI compliance, whichever gateway sits above it.
- SSL free on every storefront
- Accounts fully isolated and hardened
- Malware scanning behind a web firewall
- Current TLS across the checkout
Plans
OpenCart plans, with every figure on show
The one-click OpenCart install, SSL and the name's first year come standard on all tiers, with room to grow: catalogues to 100,000 products, NVMe storage to 200 GB and bandwidth to 5 TB.
Sprint OpenCart
A first OpenCart shop, trading quickly
$4.19/mo
$50.28 today · billed annually
the price never jumps at renewal
- SSD storage
- 10 GB
- Storefronts
- 1
- Bandwidth
- 1 TB
- CPU / RAM
- 1 core / 2 GB
- Products
- 5,000
- OpenCart installed with a single click
- PHP 8.x pre-configured to OpenCart's exact needs
- Every checkout runs over free, always-on SSL
- Somewhere to stage your changes, and a backup refreshed once a day
- Real SSH access, and Git and Composer are waiting there
- A domain name arrives with it, at no cost
- NVMe SSD storage behind a LiteSpeed cache
- Free store migration from your old host
- ImunifyAV+ sweeps the store for malware
- Softaculous installs 240+ apps in one click
- Mailboxes on your own domain, included
- HTTPS end to end, ready for PCI questions
- Humans on support 24/7, not bots
The order gets finalised over at Hosting Cheap, the shared billing system that sits behind all of our brands.
Turbo OpenCart
Room to grow a far bigger catalogue without slowing down
$5.59/mo
$67.08 today · billed annually
the price never jumps at renewal
- SSD storage
- 20 GB
- Storefronts
- 25
- Bandwidth
- 2 TB
- CPU / RAM
- 2 cores / 4 GB
- Products
- 25,000
- OpenCart installed with a single click
- PHP 8.x pre-configured to OpenCart's exact needs
- Every checkout runs over free, always-on SSL
- A staging copy to try things on, and a daily backup
- SSH proper, with Git and Composer installed before you arrive
- A domain name arrives with it, at no cost
- NVMe SSD storage behind a LiteSpeed cache
- Free store migration from your old host
- ImunifyAV+ sweeps the store for malware
- Softaculous installs 240+ apps in one click
- Mailboxes on your own domain, included
- HTTPS end to end, ready for PCI questions
- Humans on support 24/7, not bots
The order gets finalised over at Hosting Cheap, the shared billing system that sits behind all of our brands.
Nitro OpenCart
OpenCart hosting built for peak-hour order rushes
$9.09/mo
$109.08 today · billed annually
the price never jumps at renewal
- SSD storage
- 200 GB
- Storefronts
- 100
- Bandwidth
- 5 TB
- CPU / RAM
- 3 cores / 6 GB
- Products
- 100,000
- OpenCart installed with a single click
- PHP 8.x pre-configured to OpenCart's exact needs
- A backup lands every 4 hours; Imunify360 blocks what arrives uninvited
- CloudLinux Pro runs PHP X-Ray, which tells you exactly where code stalls
- Full SSH, plus Git and Composer already in place
- Your name is free, and support answers you ahead of the queue
- NVMe SSD storage behind a LiteSpeed cache
- Free store migration from your old host
- Node.js, Python and Ruby run here too
- Softaculous installs 240+ apps in one click
- Mailboxes on your own domain, included
- HTTPS end to end, ready for PCI questions
- Priority support around the clock
The order gets finalised over at Hosting Cheap, the shared billing system that sits behind all of our brands.
Steady, Then Scalable
Standing up on the big days, bigger when needed
Behind the 99.9% uptime target stands redundant infrastructure in London, which is what keeps trading going through ordinary weeks and seasonal spikes alike. Should order volume lift, a few clicks take you up a tier, and the catalogue, the customer records and the settings all cross untouched.
- A 99.9% uptime target
- Redundant hardware in a London datacentre
- One-click moves between tiers
- No re-platforming, no migration
Made For
OpenCart stores at every stage of the climb upward
A store starting from nothing
Sign up over breakfast and sell by the evening. Installation takes one click, and both the name and the SSL certificate are settled before your first product listing exists.
Several storefronts, one engine
Several storefronts, one admin panel. OpenCart handles all of that natively, and the staging areas give you somewhere private to try a change out before shoppers ever meet it.
Spikes and peak seasons
A flash sale, a product drop, the holiday peak: caching that understands retail, backed by same-day resource boosts, keeps the checkout answering right through.
Up And Running
Sign-up to first order, and quickly
- 1
Find the tier that fits
Launch, Pro or Elite: let your traffic and the size of the catalogue settle it. Whichever you take, OpenCart installs in a click, SSL is on and the name's first year is covered.
- 2
Connect your payments
Hook up whichever OpenCart payment extension you already know, Stripe or PayPal or something else, on an encrypted and PCI-friendly checkout. Card numbers then stay off your server permanently.
- 3
Sell, then move up
Orders come in, the numbers build, and the moment traffic and sales want more headroom you click up to a larger tier.
All Included
On every OpenCart tier
- One click stands OpenCart up
- Every checkout under free SSL
- PHP 8.x builds tuned for OpenCart
- A 99.9% uptime target, credit if we miss
- Nothing beneath it but NVMe
- Caching built for a shop
- The name's first year, free
- Off-site copies taken every day
- Malware scanning behind a firewall
- People on support, whatever the hour
FAQ
OpenCart owners, answered
Which OpenCart versions can I run?
Both the current OpenCart 4 releases and the settled 3.x branch run here, which means the decision follows your store and its extensions rather than our preference. One click drops a clean, current copy into place inside minutes, permissions correct, database attached, nothing left for you to assemble. Beneath it sits PHP 8.x carrying every extension OpenCart calls for, GD, cURL, mbstring and ZIP among that list, with the mysqli driver alongside. The control panel then lets you pin the exact PHP version your theme and extensions were tested on. Bringing an older store across? We match whichever PHP release it runs today, and help you move forward when the timing suits you. The install is yours outright and the software is open source, so nothing gets upgraded on you before your extensions are ready. New versions arrive on your schedule.
Am I tied to OpenCart on this hosting?
Not at all. These plans make OpenCart the easy route, and there are good reasons for that. It is open source, gentle on server resources, and free of the per-order slice hosted platforms tend to take, so the margin on each order stays with you. Themes, marketplace extensions and whichever payment gateway suits you all remain under your control. Fancy a different PHP storefront? What sits underneath is ordinary cPanel hosting. Softaculous installs 240-plus applications in a single click, while SSH, Git and Composer cover anything you would sooner deploy by hand. Several MySQL or MariaDB databases and phpMyAdmin are there too. Most owners stay with OpenCart because it is simple and undemanding, but nothing on this server chains you to one platform.
Why do OpenCart stores load quickly here?
Two things settle it: how quickly the machine shifts data, and how intelligently it caches. Take the cache first. Ours knows how OpenCart is assembled, so catalogue and category pages come out of it while baskets, sessions, coupons and stock counts stay live, and a shopper never meets a stale price or somebody else's basket. Storage is pure NVMe. No spinning disks, and none of the SATA SSDs certain budget hosts still lean on, which is why a product, basket or order lookup answers at once. Requests stay light thanks to LiteSpeed, HTTP/2 and a current PHP 8.x build, and switching on the SEO URLs and template caching inside OpenCart wins a little more again. Nobody else is drawing on your resources either, so a build-up of traffic barely registers. Your heaviest sale day feels like an ordinary Tuesday.
What is it that keeps checkout secure and PCI-friendly?
In layers, and the outermost one is the gateway. Most OpenCart payment extensions, Stripe and PayPal included, deal with card numbers on the gateway's own machines, so raw card data never reaches your server and your PCI scope stays narrow, generally a short self-assessment questionnaire. Underneath that, free self-reissuing SSL encrypts the whole checkout over current TLS, protecting card and personal details in transit across every page rather than at the payment step alone. Your account is isolated and hardened, with a web application firewall screening hostile traffic, malware scanning raising problems early, and DDoS protection at network level so no attack shuts the store. PCI is shared work. We maintain that encrypted, isolated, monitored platform. You keep OpenCart and its extensions patched and put a strong password on the admin folder, and the checkout earns the trust it asks of people.
Does one account carry several storefronts?
It does. Multi-store is built into OpenCart itself, and this platform suits it well. From a single admin panel you add further storefronts, each carrying its own name or subdomain, its own theme and its own product selection, while one catalogue and one order queue run behind the whole lot. Every extra name simply points at the OpenCart install you already have. The admin registers it as another storefront, and one dashboard drives the fleet. Pure NVMe storage and caching that understands retail let a cluster of smaller stores sit together comfortably, with a combined catalogue reaching as far as 100,000 products. Should one storefront take off, lifting the account a tier adds CPU, RAM and storage, and every store rises with it. That makes running regional storefronts under one brand, or a handful of niche outlets, an economical exercise rather than a separate hosting bill for each.
Will you handle moving my existing store?
Yes, at no cost. Once you have signed up, open a ticket carrying the login details for your current host and our engineers move the store end to end: the OpenCart files, every extension, the database, the media and product imagery, and your existing orders and customers along with them. Most moves are finished in roughly 24 hours, and the heavy work happens on the new server before anything live is touched, so checkout downtime is minimal or nil. Wherever possible we build the store in a staging area first, letting you click round it and push a test order through before DNS shifts. Content with what you see? Point the name our way and free SSL turns itself on. Unusual extensions, a custom theme, a particular PHP version? Say so in the ticket and your setup is mirrored before any work starts.
Before You Launch
Ten things to clear off before opening day
Work through these before the first order arrives — a few minutes now heads off the faults that turn up most on opening day.
- Switch SSL on and push every page to HTTPS
- Put the live gateway keys in, then push one genuine test order through
- Configure your tax classes, your shipping zones and rates
- Take the refund, delivery and privacy pages live now
- Prove the confirmation and abandoned-basket mails fire
- Turn OpenCart's SEO URLs on, then check every one resolves
- Confirm the daily copies are already running before you open
- Every product needs its own title, photographs and description text
- Aim the name over here, then watch for the padlock
- Submit a sitemap so search engines crawl the whole catalogue
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Get your OpenCart store trading today.
Install in a click, encrypt with free SSL, take the name's first year — then let the platform keep your checkout quick and open for business.
Compare Store PlansOpenCart's appeal is how little it asks for. Set it on NVMe storage with caching ahead of it and a small shop feels immediate without a large invoice. Every account runs on NVMe storage with LiteSpeed in front, in our London datacentre, watched by the same engineers who answer your tickets.
Built for merchants selling through OpenCart. A free certificate, a free transfer from your current host, nightly backups and support at any hour are all inside the price, with nothing added at checkout.
A lean store on rapid hardware
One click installs OpenCart, the PHP version matches whatever your extensions expect, and LiteSpeed caches the catalogue pages. A free certificate locks the checkout, cron covers the scheduled jobs, and the file manager and phpMyAdmin are there for the day an extension needs fixing by hand.
Beneath the surface every store runs on the same platform: NVMe drives instead of spinning disks, LiteSpeed instead of a stock web server, and a 99.9% uptime figure written into the terms.
OpenCart's running costs here
Billing ought to be uneventful: one figure, stated up front, repeated at renewal, with promotions labelled plainly rather than tucked into a footnote. Every hosting plan carries a 30-day money-back guarantee, so trying it risks nothing more than an afternoon.
A shop can open on the $2.42 tier and stay comfortable there for a long while. Once it outgrows small, moving to a larger plan or a VPS is one click with the price shown first.
OpenCart on our platform
Shops sit on NVMe storage behind LiteSpeed in our London datacentre, with products and orders backed up each night. DDoS filtering happens at the network edge, well ahead of your checkout.
The invisible work — patching, monitoring, replacing hardware, filtering — is included and done by us. It is most of what the money actually buys.
- OpenCart set up in one click
- Checkout SSL free with automatic renewal
- DDoS traffic filtered at the network edge
- Our own engineers handle all patching
Good to Know
More that's built in
Low cost, high tempo
Light software on quick storage is the cheapest way to sell online without cutting a corner.
Zero-cost transfers
Our team brings your existing store across at no charge, usually within a day.
A restore point daily
Nightly backups need no scheduling, so a bungled update costs minutes rather than data.
Humans on the line
Engineers hold the queue at every hour, aiming at a reply inside 2 hours, or 1 hour when the site is down.
Next year costs the same
Every plan renews at the rate you began on, with no second price waiting further along.
99.9% uptime, under SLA
A redundant London datacentre, automatic failover, and monitoring that wakes an engineer before you notice anything.
Getting Going
Getting going takes three steps
- 1
Select a tier
Match a tier to the catalogue you are planning.
- 2
Hook up the domain
Connect the shop's domain and take the free certificate.
- 3
Open for traffic
One click installs OpenCart, or we move your existing shop free.
In Every Plan
Thrown in without an extra charge
- 30 days in which to change your mind on any hosting plan
- The installer catalogue includes OpenCart
- Products and orders copied daily
- Backups taken automatically every day, all plans
- a 99.9% uptime SLA that pays credits when missed
- Humans answering support 24 hours a day
- NVMe storage standard, never an upsell
- Renewal billed at your original sign-up rate
Still Curious
Questions that keep coming up
Do OpenCart extensions carry over cleanly?
Nearly always. Most simply want a particular PHP version or a module such as cURL or GD, both of which are set from the panel. If one misbehaves, our desk works through the error with you rather than blaming the developer and closing the ticket.
Do I wait around after ordering?
Straight away. Orders provision themselves, and if you would rather we set things up, the help desk is staffed whatever hour you are reading this.
Does the renewal price differ from the joining price?
It renews at the price you joined on. Where a first-term promotion applied, its renewal figure was printed beside it before you ordered, so nothing appears later.
What if OpenCart hosting turns out not to suit me?
The plan carries a 30-day money-back guarantee. Say so inside the month and the refund is processed, with no exit interview and no hand-off to a retention team paid to argue.
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