Hosting For OpenCart
Run OpenCart light and keep the margin 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 OpenCart 3 and 4 alike
Why Point OpenCart Here
Everything an OpenCart store needs to keep sales climbing
Checkout speed that converts
OpenCart-aware caching on all-NVMe hardware shaves the wait from catalogue and payment pages, so more shoppers make it through to the confirmation screen.
PCI-ready payment footing
Free SSL, up-to-date TLS and isolated accounts put your checkout on ground any PCI-compliant gateway can build on without friction.
99.9% uptime, or we credit you
Our London datacentre runs redundant hardware so the store stays reachable, and if a month ever closes under target, a pro-rated credit follows — no small thing when every trading hour counts.
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 — zero re-platforming, zero migration.
Defended at every hour
A web application firewall screens traffic, malware scanning hunts for trouble and daily backups keep 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 shows up.
Checkout At Pace
A checkout that never keeps them waiting
Every second a page hangs, an order slips away. Here OpenCart gets NVMe drives across the board and caching that knows a store's shape — catalogue, basket and payment pages land instantly, while coupons, sessions and live stock stay precisely current.
- 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 base that won't shift
Shoppers only type card numbers into pages they trust. Free SSL wraps the OpenCart checkout end to end, and the store stays fastened down behind isolated accounts, a web application firewall and routine malware scans — PCI compliance's base layer, whatever gateway sits on top.
- SSL free on every storefront
- Fully isolated, hardened accounts
- Malware scanning behind a web firewall
- Modern TLS across the checkout
Plans
OpenCart plans, every number out in the open
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
Checkout happens on Hosting Cheap, the billing platform that powers our orders.
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
Checkout happens on Hosting Cheap, the billing platform that powers our orders.
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
Checkout happens on Hosting Cheap, the billing platform that powers our orders.
Steady, Then Scalable
There on the big days, bigger when needed
Redundant infrastructure in London backs a 99.9% uptime target, so selling 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 guaranteed 99.9% uptime
- Redundant kit in a London datacentre
- One-click moves between tiers
- Zero re-platforming, zero migration
Made For
OpenCart stores at every stage of the climb
A store starting from zero
Sign up at breakfast, sell by evening — the install takes one click, and the free domain and SSL certificate are sorted 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 trial changes before shoppers meet them.
Spikes and peak seasons
Flash sale, product drop or holiday peak — caching that understands stores, plus same-day resource boosts, keeps the checkout answering throughout.
Up And Running
Signup to first order, fast
- 1
Find the tier that fits
Launch, Pro or Elite — let traffic and catalogue size make the call. Every choice lands with OpenCart installed in a click, SSL switched on and the domain free.
- 2
Connect your payments
Wire up the OpenCart payment extension you already know — Stripe, PayPal or otherwise — on an encrypted, PCI-friendly checkout, and card numbers stay off your server for good.
- 3
Sell, then scale up
Take orders, watch them build, and click up to a bigger tier the moment traffic and sales call 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 current OpenCart 4 releases and the mature 3.x branch, so the choice follows your store and its extensions rather than our preference. The one-click installer brings up a clean, current copy in minutes — permissions set properly, database connected — with nothing left to bolt together yourself. 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 precise PHP version your theme and extensions were tested on. Moving an older store in? We match the PHP version it currently runs, then help you step forward when the time is right. OpenCart is open source and the install is yours outright, so no upgrade is ever pushed on you before your extensions are ready. New versions land on your schedule, not ours.
Am I locked into OpenCart on this hosting?
No lock-in at all — the plans simply make OpenCart the easy route, and for good reason. It is open source, light on server resources and free of the per-transaction cut many hosted platforms take, so each order's margin stays yours. You also keep full control of themes, extensions from the OpenCart marketplace and whichever payment gateway suits you. Want a different PHP storefront? Beneath everything sits standard cPanel hosting: Softaculous offers one-click installs of 240-plus applications, while SSH, Git and Composer cover manual deployment of anything else. Multiple MySQL or MariaDB databases and phpMyAdmin are on hand as well. Most owners stick with OpenCart because it is simple and undemanding — but nothing on the server chains you to a single platform.
Why do OpenCart stores load fast on your platform?
Speed comes down to two levers: how quickly the server moves data, and how intelligently 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 instantly. 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 someone else's basket never appears. Requests stay lean under LiteSpeed, HTTP/2 and a current PHP 8.x build, and switching on OpenCart's own SEO URLs and template caching buys a little more. Because your resources are not shared with anyone else, that pace holds as traffic builds — the busiest sale day feels like a quiet Tuesday.
How do you keep the checkout secure and PCI-friendly?
Several layers deep. Self-renewing free SSL encrypts the entire checkout over current TLS, shielding card and personal details in transit on every page, not just the payment step. Accounts run isolated and hardened behind a web application firewall that screens hostile traffic, malware scanning that flags trouble early, and DDoS protection at the network level so an attack never closes the store. PCI compliance is a shared job — and usefully, most OpenCart payment extensions, Stripe and PayPal included, process card numbers on the gateway's own infrastructure, so raw card data never reaches your server. That keeps your PCI scope narrow, typically 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 your checkout earns the trust it asks for.
Does one account support multiple storefronts?
Yes — multi-store is native to OpenCart, and this platform suits it. From one admin panel you add extra storefronts, each carrying its own domain or subdomain, theme and product selection, while a single catalogue and order queue runs behind them all. Each extra domain simply aims at the OpenCart install you already have, the admin registers it as another storefront, and one dashboard runs the whole fleet. Pure NVMe storage and store-aware caching mean a cluster of smaller stores coexists comfortably, with room for combined catalogues of up to 100,000 products. Should one storefront surge, upgrading the whole account to a higher tier brings more CPU, RAM and storage — and every store rides along. It is an efficient way to run regional storefronts for one brand, or several niche outlets, without buying hosting for each.
Can you handle the migration of my existing store?
Yes, and it costs you nothing. After signup, 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 complete in roughly 24 hours, with the heavy lifting done on the new server before anything live is touched, so checkout downtime is minimal or zero. Where possible we assemble the store in a staging area first, so you can click through and run a test order to confirm everything arrived before DNS changes hands. Happy with it? Point the domain our way and free SSL activates on its own. Unusual extensions, a custom theme or a specific PHP version in play? Note it in the ticket and we will mirror your setup before starting.
Before You Launch
Ten checks to clear before you go live
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
- Load live gateway keys, then run one real test order
- Dial in tax classes, shipping zones and rates
- Put refund, delivery and privacy pages live
- Prove the confirmation and abandoned-basket emails fire
- Flip on OpenCart's SEO URLs, then confirm each resolves
- Verify the daily backups are firing before launch
- Give every product its own name, photos and description
- Point your domain across and look for the padlock
- Hand search engines a sitemap to crawl the catalogue
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Get your OpenCart store off the line today.
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
Set up in three quick steps
- 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
Bundled in at no extra cost
- 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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