WooCommerce Hosting UK
A checkout that shares a server with five hundred strangers is a risk, not a hosting plan. On G7Cloud your store runs in its own container with its own database — £19/month fixed, no transaction fees, no visit metering.
Built for stores
Why a dedicated container matters more when money changes hands
A blog that slows down loses readers. A store that slows down loses orders. These are the store-specific reasons our architecture pays for itself.
Checkout without contention
WooCommerce checkout is uncacheable, dynamic PHP. On shared hosting it queues behind everyone else’s traffic. In your own container, your checkout only ever competes with your own pages.
Order data in its own database
One MariaDB database per store, with hot-standby replication. Your orders, customers and stock levels are never tables in a shared instance — and you can restore the database alone if you ever need to.
Rehearse changes on a clone
Payment plugin update? Theme rebuild before a launch? Clone the store, test the full purchase flow on the copy, then apply to live. No more editing a revenue-generating site blind.
Bots kept off your PHP
Card-testing bots and scrapers hammer store endpoints relentlessly. ScaleShield filters that traffic at the edge, saving your workers for genuine shoppers.
Redis for busy catalogues
The managed Redis 7 object-cache add-on (Business and above) keeps repeated product and option queries in memory — the most effective server-side speed-up for a dynamic store.
Email that reaches inboxes
Order confirmations come from real mailboxes on our mail platform with DKIM and SPF managed for you — not from an anonymous shared server IP with a spam reputation.
The pricing model
Fixed price. No transaction fees. No visit metering.
The point isn't just the number — it's the model. Your hosting bill should not grow because your store succeeded.
Shopify Basic
£25/month plus platform transaction fees on top of card processing (as of July 2026). Your store, their platform, their rules.
Read the full Shopify alternative comparison.
Metered WordPress hosts
Some managed WordPress hosts meter monthly visits and bill overages — a Black Friday rush becomes a surprise invoice. (WP Engine from ~£16/mo with annual billing, metered visits, as of July 2026.)
See G7Cloud vs WP Engine.
Business
The WooCommerce sweet spot: up to 3 sites, Redis add-on, cloning, phpMyAdmin, WP-CLI — plus full-stack AI apps.
All plans: full comparison. 30-day money-back guarantee on every paid plan. Save 20% with annual billing.
The other route
Don't want WordPress at all? Let the AI build your shop.
The AI Website Builder — included on the same Business plan — ships a complete e-commerce shop with no WordPress, no plugins and no theme hunting. It is a real application with a real database, not a picture of a shop.
- Product variants, stock, collections and discount codes
- Order management in an admin panel you log into
- Stripe checkout with your own Stripe keys — your money, direct
- You own the code and can export it
Comparing platforms more broadly? See ecommerce hosting UK, Magento hosting or the Shopify alternative guide.
WooCommerce hosting — honest answers
Which plan should I pick for a WooCommerce store?
Business, at £19/month. It covers up to 3 hosted sites including WooCommerce, adds the managed Redis object-cache add-on (the biggest server-side win for store performance), plus site cloning, phpMyAdmin and WP-CLI. Pro (£39) and Agency (£99) add more sites, PR previews, WireGuard and team roles for larger operations.
Do you charge transaction fees?
No. Your store takes payments through your own payment gateway (Stripe, PayPal or any WooCommerce-compatible provider) under your own account. You pay the gateway’s standard processing fees and nothing to us — our price is the fixed monthly hosting fee, full stop.
How safe is my order data?
Your store has its own MariaDB database — orders, customers and stock are never in a shared instance with other tenants. Backups run on schedule with manual snapshots on demand, every backup is restore-tested nightly in a real sandbox, and you can restore just the database without touching your theme or files.
How do I make changes without breaking a live store?
Clone it. One click creates a working copy of your store — files and database — where you can test the WooCommerce update, the new payment plugin or the redesign, click through checkout end-to-end, and only then repeat the change on live. A manual snapshot beforehand gives you a further safety net.
How does this compare with Shopify?
Different models. Shopify Basic is £25/month plus transaction fees on top of card processing (as of July 2026), and your store lives on their platform, on their terms. WooCommerce on G7Cloud is £19/month fixed, no platform transaction fees, and you own the code, the data and the customer relationship. See our full Shopify alternative comparison.
What if I don’t want to run WordPress at all?
Use the AI Website Builder instead — it ships a complete e-commerce shop with product variants, stock, collections, discount codes, order management and Stripe checkout using your own keys, backed by a real database and an admin panel you log into. It is included on the same Business plan.