Your store stays fast through every sales peak

WooCommerce is a free, open-source plugin that adds e-commerce functionality to your WordPress website. It’s the most popular e-commerce solution for WordPress and lets you sell physical products and digital downloads, as well as subscriptions, memberships, and bookings with extensions.

Yes, WooCommerce is a free, open-source plugin for WordPress. However, running a WooCommerce store involves additional costs, including web hosting, a domain name, payment processing fees, and any premium themes or extensions you choose to use. Every Kinsta plan includes free unlimited migrations and is backed by a 30-day money-back guarantee, so there’s no risk in seeing how your store runs on Kinsta.

WooCommerce hosting is WordPress hosting optimized for online stores built with WooCommerce. It provides the performance, security, and resources needed to handle product catalogs, shopping carts, checkout processes, and customer transactions. Managed WooCommerce hosting also takes care of server maintenance, security, and other technical tasks, so you can focus on running your store.

Online stores put different demands on a server than standard websites. Pages like the cart, checkout, and customer accounts show information unique to each shopper, so they can’t be served from the page cache. This means more requests are processed by the server in real time. WooCommerce hosting is configured to handle this workload. At Kinsta, all WordPress hosting plans are optimized for WooCommerce, with caching rules for cart, checkout, and account pages applied automatically.

WooCommerce hosting improves performance through optimized server resources and caching configurations designed for e-commerce. At Kinsta, server-level caching, Edge Caching across 300+ locations, and a global CDN speed up content delivery. Pages such as the cart, checkout, and my-account are excluded from caching so customers always see accurate, up-to-date information. You can also add Redis caching to handle more traffic by reducing the load on your site’s database. Kinsta’s APM tool, included at no extra cost, helps you identify performance bottlenecks.

Yes. Kinsta runs each site in an isolated container, with resources allocated automatically as needed, so your store is ready for holiday traffic and sudden surges. As your store grows, you can upgrade your plan anytime and add resources such as PHP performance, Redis caching, or dedicated servers for resource-intensive, high-traffic, and mission-critical stores. The right setup depends on factors such as your traffic, the number of concurrent shoppers, and the complexity of your store.

Yes. Every Kinsta plan includes Enterprise Cloudflare DDoS and malware protection, a Cloudflare firewall, and Vulnerability Protection powered by Patchstack, which automatically helps block exploits targeting known vulnerabilities in WordPress plugins and themes.

You also get free auto-renewing wildcard SSL certificates, uptime monitoring every three minutes, and automatic daily backups. Kinsta is a SOC 2 Type II compliant organization and complies with GDPR and CCPA privacy standards.

Kinsta automatically backs up your store every day, and you can also create manual backups. For stores that need more frequent backups, you can increase backup frequency to every six hours or every hour with an add-on. When you push changes from a staging environment, you can choose to deploy anything from an entire site to individual files or database tables. This is especially useful for WooCommerce stores, where new orders and subscriptions come in frequently.

Choose a Kinsta hosting plan that fits your store’s needs. If you’re starting from scratch, you can create a new WordPress site with WooCommerce installed directly from the MyKinsta dashboard. If your store is hosted elsewhere, our team will migrate it for you for free.

Yes. Every Kinsta plan includes free unlimited migrations handled by our expert migrations team. Because WooCommerce stores are continuously updated with new orders and customer data, your store will need to be placed in maintenance mode during the migration to prevent data loss. You can schedule the migration for a time that works best for your store.