I think there’s a huge opportunity for a clever host to dominate this market in 2015. So I know you’re probably thinking at that point “Hang on I thought this post was about the best WooCommerce hosts – not a rant about crap ones!” Well it is, it’s just taking me a while to get there □ It’s important to set the context that it is my opinion that this is an underserved market and that the hosts we’re recommending here are damn fine hosting companies but no one has created the perfect WooCommerce hosting platform yet. Right now the perfect WooCommerce host doesn’t exist – and that’s a damn shame. Compare this to the Magento community where there’s tons of Magento specific hosting services. To date, there’s been very little in the way of WooCommerce specific tuned hosting. In my view, WooCommerce needs a completely different type of hosting solution – one that is focused on in memory caching like memcached and performance tuned database instances. Most assume as WooCommerce is “just another plugin” that their crappy shared host should be fine. Most WooCommerce users are not aware of this. The search for the perfect WooCommerce host.Īll of these factors described expose the fact that most big WordPress hosts were not designed to be optimized for eCommerce. You might get away with this on a simple content focused blog but if you’re serious about selling online, speed is so important. You’ll no longer be able to create static copies of your site because if you did then your users wouldn’t be able to see a dynamic cart. Not entirely useless but pretty useless ( caching is still ok for users who’ve not added anything to their cart – but they’ll most likely notice a huge slowdown once they add something to their cart which will impact on conversion!). ![]() WooCommerce features like dynamic carts on every page with your subtotal/item quantity displayed render caching plugins pretty much useless. You might get away with that with a simple WordPress site as you can always fall back on a caching plugin like W3 Total Cache.īut the big problem with WooCommerce is that a caching plugin won’t hide a lack of Plugin Due Diligence or underpowered hosting (or both). Most people don’t conduct serious Plugin Due Diligence and then end up with a slow eCommerce website. Up to date – when was the plugin last updated? Does it support the latest versions of WordPress and WooCommerce?.Fast – how well is the plugin coded and how much additional load does it add to my site?.Reputable – who is this developer? what’s their track record? Do they have a blog? Are they active on social media and on support forums? What do other people say about them?.Plugin Due Diligence is the simple process of making sure that the plugin you’re about to install is: The situation gets much worse on your average WordPress install where a user might have 20, 30 or more (shudder) plugins installed and fails to do Plugin Due Diligence. It’s quite common for WooCommerce to add a second or two to the load time of a vanilla WordPress install with no other themes or plugins installed. My experiences the past few months helping to support our Adrenalin customers continues to highlight the sad state of affairs that the vast majority of WordPress hosts are not suitable at all for WooCommerce. We’ve also been working on a number of exciting consulting projects and have a few more themes in the pipeline for 2015 so stay tuned for more frequent posts in the near future □ WooCommerce Hosting Still Sucks! We launched the wildly successful Adrenalin WooCommerce theme at the end of October which took off like a rocket and meant we put our blogging duties were neglected. In the 4 months that have passed since I wrote Part 2 of this guide we’ve been crazy busy here in CommerceGurus HQ. In Part 3 of our Best WooCommerce Hosting Plans we take a look at the VPS market and share our recommended VPS for WooCommerce hosting.
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