Ecommerce hosting and managed WooCommerce hosting for your store
Ecommerce hosting needs to serve public product pages efficiently while keeping each shopper's cart and checkout personal. NowHosted uses edge cache for cacheable WooCommerce catalog pages and leaves cart and checkout uncached. Managed infrastructure, staging, and daily backups support store operations, with hourly WooCommerce backups on Scale for a closer recovery point.
Store dashboard
WooCommerce- Orders
- Live application
- Checkout response time
- Per request
- Session data
- Uncached
- /shopHIT
- /cartBYPASS
- /checkoutBYPASS
- /my-accountBYPASS
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Managed woocommerce hosting for browsing and buying
A product description and a checkout request have different jobs. Catalog pages often contain public information that can benefit from edge cache. Cart and checkout depend on the shopper's current session and must reflect the right items and purchase details. Treating every store page as the same kind of request can create problems during buying.
NowHosted keeps cart and checkout uncached while using edge cache for eligible catalog pages. Global CDN delivery supports cacheable content, and each site runs in an isolated container. Choose the origin region per site from North America, Europe, or Asia-Pacific with your audience in mind. The cloud hosting guide explains how regional origins and global delivery work together.
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Keep personal shopping activity out of shared cache
Caching is useful when the same response is appropriate for different visitors. A shopper's cart and checkout do not meet that condition. They need the application to handle the current session and its state. Public catalog pages can use edge cache when the response is suitable for shared delivery.
| Store area | Hosting approach | What your team checks |
|---|---|---|
| Public catalog pages | Hosting approachEdge cache for cacheable pages | What your team checksProduct information and page behavior after changes |
| Cart | Hosting approachUncached application response | What your team checksItems and quantities match the current shopper's actions |
| Checkout | Hosting approachUncached application response | What your team checksPurchase details and the payment flow work correctly |
| Custom store features | Hosting approachReview behavior with the application | What your team checksPersonalization and integrations behave as intended |
Test your actual store workflow after changing a theme, plugin, or integration. Hosting cache rules support the platform, while your team remains responsible for application behavior and compatibility. The managed hosting responsibility matrix makes that division explicit.
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Choose backup frequency around changing orders
A store continues to create records while it is open. A backup captures a point in time, so restoring it can replace records created or changed after that point. Choose a backup schedule and recovery process with that consequence in mind. A successful restore still needs a review of the store's current business records.
Business and Agency include daily backups. Business retains backups for 14 days, Agency for 30 days, and Scale for 90 days. Scale adds hourly backups for WooCommerce. A more frequent recovery point can reduce the interval between the stored copy and an incident, but it does not remove the need to reconcile live orders and related activity.
- Decide who selects and approves a recovery point.
- Check what changed after the backup before restoring over live data.
- Review cart, checkout, and order handling after recovery.
Hourly WooCommerce backups
Scale- Current hourReview orders
- Previous hourReview orders
- Earlier recovery pointReview orders
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Use staging before a store update goes live
Staging gives you a copy of the store for testing theme changes, plugin updates, and custom code. Review product pages, cart behavior, and checkout before changing the live store. Your tests should reflect the integrations and shopping paths the business actually uses rather than stopping when the home page loads.
SSH, Git deploy, and WP-CLI are included across the plans. Agency and Scale also provide bulk plugin and theme updates. Your team decides which updates to apply and checks the result. Use the WordPress hosting platform to review the tools available to the person maintaining your store.
A staging copy is a place to test a change, not a reason to overwrite current store records without checking them. Keep the release decision separate from any decision to replace live content or transaction data.
Store update review
StagingPlugin update
Compatibility review
- Product pagesAwaiting review
- Cart behaviorAwaiting review
- CheckoutAwaiting review
- Payment integrationAwaiting review
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Support PCI-friendly practices around your store
NowHosted includes server patching, WAF protection, malware scanning, free SSL with renewal, isolated containers, and uptime monitoring every minute. These controls support the hosting environment around your store. Your team still maintains plugins, application code, access decisions, and the payment integration.
PCI-friendly practice includes reviewing how the store handles payment details, keeping unnecessary card data out of application records, and checking the scope of your payment setup with the relevant provider. Hosting controls alone do not establish PCI compliance, and NowHosted makes no PCI certification claim. Review the hosting security information alongside the requirements that apply to your store and payment workflow.
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Choose a plan for the store you operate
Business costs 49 USD per month or 288 USD per year, equivalent to 24 USD per month. It includes 3 sites, 100k monthly visits as a soft limit, and 30 GB storage. Agency costs 149 USD per month or 888 USD per year, equivalent to 74 USD per month, with 20 sites, 600k monthly visits as a soft limit, and 150 GB storage.
Scale costs 399 USD per month or 2,388 USD per year, equivalent to 199 USD per month. It includes 60 sites, 2M monthly visits as a soft limit, 500 GB storage, dedicated resources, hourly WooCommerce backups, and a named on-call contact. Every plan includes uptime monitoring every minute. Scale also includes 24/7 priority support with a 15-minute first response. Compare the WordPress hosting plans against your store's recovery and support needs.
There are no visit overage fees. Monthly visit allowances are soft limits, and NowHosted suggests an upgrade when usage calls for it. Autoscaling stays within plan resources, so capacity decisions still need to reflect the work your store performs.
Every plan includes free migration with zero downtime through a staging copy, testing, and DNS cutover with a low TTL. Read the website migration process and identify the store workflows that need review before the move. The free hosting audit reads your current site without changing it and requires no card.
FAQ
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No. WooCommerce cart and checkout remain uncached. Eligible public catalog pages use edge cache, while the application handles each shopper's cart and checkout state.
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Scale includes hourly backups for WooCommerce and 90-day backup retention. Business and Agency include daily backups with retention of 14 days and 30 days respectively.
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Yes. Staging is included on every plan. Your team tests compatibility and decides when to apply changes, with bulk plugin and theme update tools included on Agency and Scale.
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No. Hosting controls support PCI-friendly practices but do not establish PCI compliance. Your payment integration, application behavior, and applicable requirements need their own review.