Hosting For OpenCart
Run OpenCart light and keep 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
Runs OpenCart 3 and 4 alike
Why Point OpenCart Here
Everything an OpenCart store wants in order to keep selling
Checkout speed that converts
OpenCart-aware caching on all-NVMe hardware takes the wait out of catalogue and payment pages, so more shoppers reach the confirmation screen.
PCI-ready payment footing
Free SSL, current TLS and isolated accounts put your checkout on ground any PCI-compliant gateway can build on without friction.
99.9% uptime, or a credit
Hardware in our London facility is duplicated so the store stays answerable, and any month that closes beneath the target earns a pro-rated credit. That matters when each trading hour is money.
It grows as orders stack up
Order volume climbing? A few clicks buy more CPU, RAM and storage without touching the catalogue or a single extension setting — no re-platforming, no migration.
Guarded at every hour
A web application firewall screens traffic, malware scanning hunts for trouble and a daily copy keeps a fallback ready — quiet machinery protecting the store, its customers and every order.
Engineers answering, 24/7
Every minute offline is revenue gone, so engineers — not canned scripts — answer tickets and email at whatever hour trouble arrives.
Checkout At Pace
A checkout that never keeps them waiting
For every second a page hangs, another order quietly goes. Here OpenCart gets NVMe drives across the board and caching that knows the shape of a shop — catalogue, basket and payment pages land at once, while coupons, sessions and live stock 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 on ground that will not shift
A card number only gets typed into a page the shopper already trusts. Free SSL wraps the OpenCart checkout the whole way, and the store stays fastened down behind isolated accounts, a web application firewall and routine malware scans — the base layer of PCI compliance, whatever gateway sits on top.
- SSL free on every storefront
- Accounts fully isolated and hardened
- Malware scanning behind a web firewall
- Current TLS across the checkout
Plans
OpenCart plans, every figure in the open
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
- A staging area to test in, and a fresh backup daily
- Proper SSH, with Git and Composer already installed
- 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
Orders are completed on Hosting Cheap, the billing system every one of our brands runs through.
Turbo OpenCart
Grow into a much larger catalogue without losing pace
$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 area to test in, and a fresh backup daily
- Proper SSH, with Git and Composer already installed
- 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
Orders are completed on Hosting Cheap, the billing system every one of our brands runs through.
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 every 4 hours, and Imunify360 standing in front
- PHP X-Ray on CloudLinux Pro names the slow code for you
- Proper SSH, with Git and Composer already installed
- A free name and a priority line to the help desk
- 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
Orders are completed on Hosting Cheap, the billing system every one of our brands runs through.
Steady, Then Scalable
There on the big days, larger when needed
Redundant infrastructure in London stands behind a 99.9% uptime target, so trading carries on through ordinary weeks and seasonal spikes alike. And when order volume lifts, a few clicks move you up a tier — catalogue, customer records and settings crossing over 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 point on the way up
A store starting from nothing
Sign up at breakfast, sell by evening — the install is one click, and the name and SSL certificate are settled before your first product listing exists.
Several storefronts, one engine
One admin panel, several storefronts — OpenCart handles the lot natively, and staging areas give you somewhere private to try a change before shoppers meet it.
Spikes and peak seasons
Flash sale, product drop or holiday peak — caching that understands a shop, plus same-day resource boosts, keeps the checkout answering throughout.
Up And Running
From sign-up to first order, quickly
- 1
Find the tier that fits
Launch, Pro or Elite — let traffic and catalogue size decide. Every choice arrives with OpenCart installed in a click, SSL on and the name's first year covered.
- 2
Connect your payments
Connect the OpenCart payment extension you already know — Stripe, PayPal or another — on an encrypted, PCI-friendly checkout, and card numbers stay off your server for good.
- 3
Sell, then move up
Take orders, watch them build, and click up to a larger tier the moment traffic and sales ask for more headroom.
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?
The current OpenCart 4 releases and the settled 3.x branch both run here, so the decision follows your store and its extensions instead of our taste. One click puts a clean, current copy in place within minutes, permissions right and database attached, leaving nothing for you to assemble. Underneath runs PHP 8.x with every extension OpenCart calls for, GD, cURL, mbstring and ZIP among them, with the mysqli driver alongside, and the control panel lets you pin the exact PHP version your theme and extensions were tested on. Moving an older store in? Whatever PHP release it runs today, we match it, then help you move forward when the moment suits. The install belongs to you outright and the software is open source, so nothing is upgraded on you before your extensions are ready for it. New versions land on your schedule, not ours.
Am I tied to OpenCart on this hosting?
Not at all — the plans simply make OpenCart the easy route, and for good reason. Open source, easy on server resources, and without the per-order slice hosted platforms tend to take — so each order's margin remains yours. Themes, marketplace extensions and whichever payment gateway suits you all stay under your control. Want a different PHP storefront? Underneath it all is ordinary cPanel hosting: Softaculous installs 240-plus applications in one click, and SSH, Git and Composer handle anything you would rather deploy by hand. Several MySQL or MariaDB databases and phpMyAdmin are on hand as well. Most owners stay with OpenCart because it is simple and undemanding — but nothing on the server chains you to one platform.
Why do OpenCart stores load quickly here?
Two levers decide the speed: how fast the machine moves data, and how cleverly it caches. Every store here runs on pure NVMe storage — no spinning disks, none of the SATA SSDs some budget hosts still lean on — so product, basket and order lookups return at once. The caching layer also understands how OpenCart is put together: catalogue and category pages come from cache while baskets, sessions, coupons and stock counts stay live, so a stale price or somebody else's basket never appears. LiteSpeed, HTTP/2 and a current PHP 8.x build keep each request light, and turning on OpenCart's own SEO URLs and template caching gains a little further. Since nobody else draws on your resources, the pace survives a build-up of traffic — the heaviest sale day behaves like an ordinary Tuesday.
How is the checkout kept secure and PCI-friendly?
Several layers deep. Self-reissuing free SSL encrypts the whole checkout over current TLS, shielding card and personal details in transit on every page, not only the payment step. Each account is isolated and hardened, standing behind a web application firewall that screens hostile traffic, malware scanning that raises trouble early, and network-level DDoS protection so no attack shuts the store. PCI is shared work, and helpfully most OpenCart payment extensions — Stripe and PayPal among them — handle card numbers on the gateway's own machines, so raw card data never arrives on yours. That keeps your PCI scope narrow, usually a short self-assessment questionnaire, while we maintain the encrypted, isolated, monitored platform underneath. Keep OpenCart and its extensions patched, protect the admin folder with a strong password, and the checkout earns the trust it asks for.
Does one account carry several storefronts?
It does. Multi-store is built into OpenCart, and this platform is a good match for it. From one admin panel you add extra storefronts, each with its own name or subdomain, theme and product selection, while a single catalogue and order queue runs behind them all. Each extra name simply aims at the OpenCart install you already have, the admin registers it as another storefront, and one dashboard runs the whole fleet. With pure NVMe storage and caching that understands a shop, a cluster of smaller stores sits together comfortably, and the combined catalogue can reach 100,000 products. If one storefront takes off, lifting the whole account a tier adds CPU, RAM and storage, and every store comes along with it. That makes it an economical way to run regional storefronts under one brand, or a handful of niche outlets, without buying hosting for each.
Will you handle moving my existing store?
Yes, and it costs nothing. After sign-up, open a ticket with 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 with them. Most moves finish in roughly 24 hours, with the heavy work done on the new server before anything live is touched, so checkout downtime is minimal or none. Wherever we can, the store is built in a staging area first, so you can click round it and push a test order through before DNS moves. Happy with it? Point the name our way and free SSL activates on its own. Unusual extensions, a custom theme or a particular PHP version in play? Mention it in the ticket and your setup is mirrored before any work begins.
Before You Launch
Ten checks to clear before you open
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
- Load the live gateway keys, then run one real test order
- Set the tax classes, shipping zones and rates
- Put the refund, delivery and privacy pages live
- Prove the confirmation and abandoned-basket mails fire
- Switch on OpenCart's SEO URLs, then confirm each resolves
- Check the daily copies are running before you open
- Give every product its own name, photographs and description
- Point the name across and look for the padlock
- Hand search engines a sitemap so the catalogue gets crawled
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Put your OpenCart store up 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
Set up in three quick 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
Bundled in at no extra cost
- 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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