Magento hosting built to carry a serious catalogue

Yes. Every plan is a full-root KVM VPS, so you are not boxed in by shared-hosting limits — you install and run Magento exactly the way its documentation expects. That means choosing your own PHP 8.x version and adding the extensions Magento needs, such as bcmath, ctype, gd, intl and soap, then pulling the code in with Composer rather than a restricted uploader. You can run both Magento Open Source and Adobe Commerce, wire up a search engine like OpenSearch or Elasticsearch, and set your own cron schedule for indexing and order processing. Because you hold root, you decide when to upgrade PHP, patch the platform or add tooling — nothing is locked down. Our team keeps the network, hardware and DDoS protection healthy, while the Magento stack itself stays entirely under your control to tune as your build requires.

Catalogue size is really a question of memory and search, not just disk. A few hundred simple products run happily on an entry tier, but once you push into thousands of SKUs with configurable options, layered navigation and faceted search, the search engine and database start demanding real RAM. As a rule of thumb, give Magento at least 4 GB once the catalogue and caching stack are both busy, and more if you index frequently or run heavy imports. Start on a mid tier if you already have a sizeable catalogue, then watch how reindexing and admin pages behave under load. Because every plan uses pure NVMe storage with dedicated CPU and RAM, product images and category queries stay quick as counts climb. Moving up a tier takes a couple of clicks and keeps your files, database and configuration exactly in place — so it is easy to right-size later.

We give you the room to run Magento's caching the way it was designed, rather than throttling it. On a full-root VPS you can layer Varnish in front for full-page caching, point Redis at sessions and the object cache, and keep compiled PHP hot in OPcache — so a warm storefront or category page is served in milliseconds instead of being rebuilt on every request. Underneath, pure NVMe storage and guaranteed CPU and RAM mean indexing, image processing and database queries never wait on a slow disk or a noisy neighbour. You can also tune your PHP-FPM pool, set a sensible cron schedule for reindexing, and split the search engine onto its own service. Because the resources are dedicated, the speed you test on a quiet afternoon is the speed shoppers actually get during a busy sale — not a best-case number that collapses under real traffic.

Your Magento install lives on a single-tenant server with no other customers' accounts sharing it, which removes a whole class of cross-account risk from the outset. Free, auto-renewing SSL encrypts the entire storefront and checkout with modern TLS, and network-level DDoS protection helps keep the store reachable when it is targeted. Because you hold root, you can harden the admin path, restrict SSH access, keep PHP and the platform patched, and set the file permissions Magento recommends. Full PCI compliance is a shared responsibility: most merchants pair Magento with a gateway that tokenises cards so raw card data never touches your server, which keeps you in the simpler SAQ A or A-EP scope. We give you a clean, isolated and encrypted foundation to build that on; your gateway, extensions and internal processes complete the picture. Our team is on hand for infrastructure and network questions throughout.

Yes. After you sign up, open a ticket with your current host's details and our team helps move the whole store across — the Magento codebase, the database, media files and any custom configuration. Magento migrations have a few moving parts, so we take care to bring over your caching setup, cron jobs and search index rather than just copying files. We can stage the store on the new server first so you can click through the storefront, place a test order and confirm everything works before anything goes live. When you are happy, you update DNS to point the domain at the new VPS and switch on free SSL; because the copy is already in place, shoppers see little or no downtime. Existing orders, customers and product data come with you intact. Tell us about any unusual extensions early so we can plan around them.

These are self-managed VPS plans, and that is deliberate — keeping the server unmanaged is exactly what makes root access, custom PHP builds and a tuned caching stack possible at this price. You own everything above the operating system: the Magento install, its extensions, cron jobs, caching layers and updates are yours to configure however your build needs. What we manage is the foundation beneath it — the physical hardware, the KVM virtualisation, the tier-3 datacentre network and DDoS protection — so you never worry about the parts you cannot see. Our support team is available 24/7 for infrastructure, provisioning and network questions, and can help you resize a plan or troubleshoot connectivity. If you would rather not administer Magento yourself, many merchants bring in a developer or agency for the application layer while we keep the underlying VPS fast, online and protected around the clock.

Yes. Magento's multi-website and store-view structure is designed to share one codebase and database, so a single full-root VPS can run several brands or regional storefronts at once, provided you size CPU, RAM and NVMe storage for their combined load. You keep one admin panel and one server to maintain rather than several, and you can move up a tier if the combined traffic outgrows your current plan.

Every VPS plan comes with a 30-day money-back guarantee, so you can install Magento, load your real catalogue and test performance under your own caching setup before deciding it's the right fit. If it isn't, you get a refund within that window rather than being locked into the plan.

Daily backups run on every VPS, so a bad extension install, a failed upgrade or a corrupted import is a restore away rather than a rebuild from scratch. Open a support ticket with the details and our team can help you get a recent, working copy of your store back in place.

Yes. Free managed migration isn't limited to Magento-to-Magento moves — our team can bring products, customers, orders and media across from Shopify, WooCommerce, BigCommerce or another host, and will flag any extensions or theme customisations that need extra attention before cutover. The new store is staged and tested before DNS changes, so you can confirm everything works first.

Plans are priced in USD, but our checkout uses geo-currency display to automatically show that price converted to your local currency based on where you're browsing from. It's there so merchants and agencies signing up from outside the US see an accurate figure upfront, before entering payment details.

Hosting Cheap is operated by Bohzo Ltd, a UK-registered company, which is the legal entity behind billing and support. That gives you a real, accountable business on the other end of your invoice and support tickets, rather than an anonymous reseller panel.