Hosting For OpenCart
Keep OpenCart lean and the margin still moving
From $4.19/mo: OpenCart installed in a click, PHP 8.x set your way and as many storefronts as you need — free SSL included, NVMe underneath, 99.9% uptime on the clock.
1-click
Store selling in minutes
Free SSL
Every checkout encrypted
$4.19
Your monthly starting price
PHP 8.x
Runs both OpenCart 3 and OpenCart 4
Why Point OpenCart Here
What an OpenCart shop needs to keep its order count rising
Checkout speed that converts
Caching that knows OpenCart, sitting on all-NVMe hardware, cuts the wait on catalogue and payment pages, so more shoppers reach the confirmation screen.
PCI-ready payment footing
Free SSL, current TLS and accounts kept isolated give your checkout ground that any PCI-compliant gateway can build on smoothly.
99.9% uptime, or we credit you
Redundant hardware in our London datacentre keeps the store reachable. Should a month ever close below target, a pro-rated credit follows, which is no small thing when each trading hour carries weight.
Grows as orders stack up
Order volume on the rise? A few clicks buy extra CPU, RAM and storage, and nothing in the catalogue or any extension setting gets touched. No re-platforming. No migration.
Defended at every hour
Traffic gets screened by a web application firewall, malware scanning goes looking for trouble, and daily backups keep a fallback waiting. Quiet machinery, guarding the store, its customers and each order.
Engineers answering, 24/7
A minute offline is a minute of revenue gone, so tickets and email get answered by engineers rather than canned scripts, at whatever hour trouble arrives.
Checkout At Pace
Checkout that never leaves a buyer waiting
Every second a page stalls, a sale walks. Here OpenCart runs on NVMe drives throughout, with caching tuned to the shape of a storefront: catalogue, basket and payment screens arrive without delay, while coupon codes, sessions and live stock counts hold their exact state.
- NVMe drives only
- OpenCart-shaped caching rules
- Baskets that make it to payment
- Fast-opening catalogue and payment pages
Hardened For Payments
Card payments on a floor that won't tilt
Nobody keys a card number into a page they distrust. Free SSL covers the OpenCart checkout from first click to receipt, and each shop sits inside its own isolated account, behind a web application firewall, with malware sweeps running to a schedule. That is the groundwork PCI compliance rests on, whichever gateway you bolt above it.
- SSL free on every storefront
- Fully isolated, hardened accounts
- Malware scanning behind a web firewall
- Modern TLS across the checkout
Plans
OpenCart plan pricing, laid out in full view
The one-click OpenCart install, SSL and a free domain come standard on all tiers, with room to accelerate: catalogues to 100,000 products, NVMe storage to 200 GB and bandwidth to 5 TB.
Sprint OpenCart
Your first OpenCart store, up and running fast
$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
- Test in staging, with a new backup taken daily
- Full SSH access with Git and Composer on tap
- Comes with a domain name at no charge
- 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 complete over at Hosting Cheap, which handles billing for everything we sell.
Turbo OpenCart
Scale to 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
- Test in staging, with a new backup taken daily
- Full SSH access with Git and Composer on tap
- Comes with a domain name at no charge
- 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 complete over at Hosting Cheap, which handles billing for everything we sell.
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
- Backups land every 4 hours, with Imunify360 in front
- PHP X-Ray on CloudLinux Pro pinpoints slow code fast
- Full SSH access with Git and Composer on tap
- A no-cost domain and a priority line to support
- 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 complete over at Hosting Cheap, which handles billing for everything we sell.
Steady, Then Scalable
Steady on peak days, and larger when you ask
Behind the 99.9% uptime target sits redundant kit in London, so selling keeps running whether the week is flat or a seasonal rush lands. Order volume lifting? Move up a tier in a few clicks. Catalogue, customer records and store settings all cross over untouched.
- A guaranteed 99.9% uptime
- Redundant kit in a London datacentre
- One-click moves between tiers
- Zero re-platforming, zero migration
Made For
Shops running OpenCart at any rung of growth
A store starting from zero
Sign up over breakfast and be selling by evening. Installation takes a single click, and both the free domain and the SSL certificate are settled before your first product listing exists.
Several storefronts, one engine
One admin panel running several storefronts, which OpenCart handles natively. Staging areas hand you somewhere private to trial changes before any shopper meets them.
Spikes and peak seasons
Flash sale, product drop, holiday peak: caching that understands stores, together with same-day resource boosts, keeps the checkout answering right through.
Up And Running
Signup to first order, fast
- 1
Find the tier that fits
Traffic and catalogue size should pick the tier for you, whether that ends up being Sprint, Turbo or Nitro. Each one turns up with a one-click OpenCart install, SSL already on, and no charge for the domain.
- 2
Connect your payments
Wire in whichever OpenCart payment extension you already know, whether Stripe, PayPal or something else, onto an encrypted, PCI-friendly checkout. Card numbers then stay off your server permanently.
- 3
Sell, then scale up
Take orders, watch the numbers build, then click up to a larger tier the moment traffic and sales ask for more headroom.
All Included
With every OpenCart tier
- One click stands OpenCart up
- Every checkout under free SSL
- OpenCart-tuned PHP 8.x builds
- A 99.9% uptime pledge, credit if we slip
- Nothing under it but NVMe
- Caching built for stores
- Year one of the domain, free
- Off-site backups every day
- Malware scans behind a firewall
- Human support, whatever the hour
FAQ
OpenCart owners, answered
What versions of OpenCart can I run?
Both the current OpenCart 4 releases and the mature 3.x branch, so the choice follows your store and its extensions rather than any preference of ours. The one-click installer stands up a clean, current copy in minutes, permissions set properly and database connected, with nothing left for you to bolt together. PHP 8.x runs underneath with every extension OpenCart asks for, GD, cURL, mbstring and ZIP among them, the mysqli driver alongside, and the control panel lets you pin the precise PHP version your theme and extensions were tested on. Bringing an older store in? We match whichever PHP version it runs today, then help you step forward when the moment suits. OpenCart is open source and the install belongs to you outright, so no upgrade ever gets pushed on you before the extensions are ready. New versions land on your schedule, never on ours.
Am I locked into OpenCart on this hosting?
There is no lock-in whatsoever. The plans just make OpenCart the easy route, and for good reason. It is open source, gentle on server resources, and free of the per-transaction cut many hosted platforms levy, so the margin on each order stays with you. Themes, extensions from the OpenCart marketplace and whichever payment gateway suits you all remain under your control. Fancy a different PHP storefront? Standard cPanel hosting sits beneath everything: Softaculous handles one-click installs of 240-plus applications, while SSH, Git and Composer cover manual deployment of anything else. Several MySQL or MariaDB databases plus phpMyAdmin come along too. Most owners stay with OpenCart because it is simple and undemanding, though nothing on the server ties you to one platform.
What makes an OpenCart store load quickly on your platform?
Two things, really. There is the raw speed the hardware moves data at, and there is how cleverly the caching works. Take the storage first: pure NVMe throughout, no spinning disks anywhere, and none of the SATA SSDs that budget hosts still put behind a store, which is why a product, basket or order lookup returns instantly. Then the cache, which knows the anatomy of an OpenCart install. Category and catalogue pages come out of it, while sessions, baskets, coupons and stock counts stay live, so nobody meets a stale price or somebody else’s basket. LiteSpeed, HTTP/2 and a current PHP 8.x build keep each request lean, and turning on the OpenCart SEO URLs plus template caching squeezes out a bit more. Nobody shares your resources, so the pace holds as traffic climbs. Your busiest sale day should feel like a quiet Tuesday.
What keeps the checkout secure, and how does PCI fit in?
It stacks up in layers. Start with encryption: self-renewing free SSL covers the entire checkout over current TLS, so card and personal details are protected in transit on every page, rather than only the one where payment happens. Around that sit isolated, hardened accounts, a web application firewall screening hostile traffic, malware scanning that raises a flag early, and DDoS protection at network level so no attack closes the shop. Then PCI, which is shared work rather than ours alone. Helpfully, most OpenCart payment extensions, Stripe and PayPal among them, handle card numbers on gateway infrastructure, meaning raw card data never lands on your server and your scope narrows to what is usually a short self-assessment questionnaire. Our part is the encrypted, isolated, monitored platform below. Yours is patching OpenCart and its extensions, and putting a strong password on the admin folder.
Does one account support multiple storefronts?
It does, since multi-store is native to OpenCart and this platform sits well with it. Point each additional domain at the install you already have, register it in the admin as another storefront, and one dashboard drives the fleet. Every storefront gets its own domain or subdomain, its own theme and its own selection of products, while a single catalogue and a single order queue run behind all of them. A cluster of smaller shops coexists comfortably on pure NVMe storage with store-aware caching, and combined catalogues have room to reach 100,000 products. Where one storefront starts to surge, moving the account onto a higher tier adds CPU, RAM and storage, and every store rides along with it. For regional storefronts under one brand, or a handful of niche outlets, that beats buying hosting for each.
Would you take on the migration of my current store?
We will, and there is no charge for it. Sign up, then open a ticket carrying the login details for wherever the store lives now. Our engineers take the whole thing across: OpenCart files, every extension, the database, media and product imagery, plus the orders and customers you already hold. Roughly 24 hours covers most moves, and the heavy work happens on the new server before anything live gets touched, which keeps checkout downtime tiny or absent altogether. Wherever it is possible, the store goes up in a staging area first, so you can click round it and put a test order through to confirm everything landed, all before DNS changes hands. Once you are satisfied, point the domain at us and free SSL turns itself on. Running unusual extensions, a custom theme, or a specific PHP version? Say so in the ticket and your setup gets mirrored before we start.
Before You Launch
Ten things to tick off before launch day
Work through these before the first order arrives — a few minutes now heads off the faults that surface most often on launch day.
- Switch on SSL and push every page to HTTPS
- Drop in your live gateway keys and push one genuine test order through
- Set your tax classes, then map shipping zones against rates
- Put refund, delivery and privacy pages live
- Prove the confirmation and abandoned-basket emails fire
- Switch OpenCart's SEO URLs on and check every one resolves
- Before opening day, prove the daily backups actually ran
- Write each product a proper name, real photos, its own description
- Move the domain over, then watch for the padlock icon
- Submit a sitemap so search engines can crawl your whole catalogue
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Start your OpenCart shop today, not next month.
Install in a click, encrypt with free SSL, claim the free domain — then let the platform keep your checkout quick and open for business.
Compare Store PlansOpenCart's charm is how little it demands. Set it on NVMe storage with caching up front and a small store feels instantaneous without a big invoice. Every account runs on NVMe storage with LiteSpeed ahead of it, in our London datacentre — monitored by the same engineers who handle your tickets.
Built for merchants trading through OpenCart. Free SSL, a free transfer from your current host, daily backups and round-the-clock support all ride along in the price — no surprise add-ons at checkout.
A lean store on rapid hardware
One click installs OpenCart, the PHP version matches what your extensions expect, and LiteSpeed caches the catalogue pages. Free SSL locks the checkout, cron covers scheduled jobs, and the file manager and phpMyAdmin stand by for the day an extension needs hand-fixing.
Below the surface, every store rides the same platform — NVMe drives rather than spinning disks, LiteSpeed rather than a stock web server, and a 99.9% uptime figure baked into the terms.
OpenCart's running costs here
Billing should be uneventful: one figure, declared up front, repeated at renewal, with promotions labelled clearly rather than tucked into a footnote. Every hosting plan includes a 30-day money-back guarantee, so a test run risks nothing but an afternoon.
A store can launch on the $2.42 tier and stay comfortable there for ages. Once it outgrows small, stepping to a bigger plan or a VPS is one click with the price shown first.
OpenCart on our platform
Stores sit on NVMe storage behind LiteSpeed in our London datacentre, with products and orders backed up daily. DDoS filtering runs at the network edge, well ahead of your checkout.
The invisible work — patching, monitoring, swapping hardware, filtering — is included and handled by us. It is most of what your 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 fast storage is the cheapest route to selling online with zero corners cut.
Zero-cost transfers
Our team shifts your existing store over at no charge, usually inside a day.
A restore point daily
Daily backups need no scheduling, so a botched update costs minutes rather than data.
Humans on the line
Engineers cover the queue at every hour, aiming to reply within 2 hours, or 1 hour if the site is offline.
Next year costs the same
Every plan renews at the rate you started on — no second price waiting down the road.
99.9% uptime, under SLA
Our redundant London datacentre, automatic failover and monitoring that alerts an engineer before you spot anything.
Getting Going
Three short steps to get running
- 1
Select a tier
Match a tier to the catalogue you have in mind.
- 2
Hook up the domain
Connect the store's domain and accept the free certificate.
- 3
Open for traffic
One click installs OpenCart, or we move your existing store free.
In Every Plan
Comes with the plan, no surcharge
- 30 days 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?
Almost always. Most just need a specific PHP version or a module like cURL or GD, both set from the panel. Should one act up, our desk digs into the error with you rather than blaming the developer and closing the ticket.
Do I wait around after ordering?
Immediately. Orders self-provision, and if you would prefer us to handle setup, the support desk is staffed whatever hour you are reading this.
Is the renewal rate different from the joining rate?
The plan renews at your joining price. If a first-term promotion applied, its renewal figure was shown beside it before you ordered — nothing surfaces later.
What if OpenCart hosting is not right for me?
The plan carries a 30-day money-back guarantee. Say the word within the month and the refund goes through — no exit interview, no hand-off to a retention team paid to argue with you.
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