Ecommerce
A store is not a brochure site with a basket bolted on. Every second of delay at checkout costs orders, so hosting choices show up directly in revenue.
Published 15 April 2026 8 min read
Five requirements, all of them practical.
A new store with a few dozen products runs well on web hosting. Once you are taking orders daily, move to business hosting for guaranteed resources. Cloud hosting suits seasonal spikes and campaigns, and a VPS suits custom or high-volume setups.
WooCommerce is heavier than a blog: it needs adequate PHP memory, object caching, and caching rules that deliberately skip the cart, checkout and account pages. Our WordPress and business plans are configured with those exceptions already in place.
Use HTTPS everywhere with free SSL, keep card handling with your payment provider rather than on your own server, enforce strong admin passwords with two-factor authentication, and keep plugins updated. Taking payments through a provider's hosted checkout keeps your compliance burden small.
Business hosting with guaranteed resources, free SSL, CDN and daily backups — plus free migration of your existing store.
A hosted platform is quick to start and charges monthly, often with transaction fees, and limits what you can change. A self-hosted store on WooCommerce costs less to run, gives you complete control of design, data and checkout, and lets you keep your own hosting and domain in one account.
Do these before spending anything on ads.
Price your plan in Kenyan shillings, and serve local shoppers from our global network with the payment methods your customers already use. The same store can sell internationally without moving hosting.
Our engineers answer setup and migration questions in plain language, 24 hours a day.
