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Hostman
Cloud 4 · 2 × 4 GB · 80 GB NVMe · Europe
✓ Listed for “Online store”✓ Plan covers 2 cores and 4 GB RAM✓ Within budget
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VPS for an online store
A store on WooCommerce, OpenCart, Bitrix or a custom CMS
How many resources you need
Why that many
A store differs from a website in that not everything can be cached: the cart, the account and the checkout are computed on the fly. On top of that the database grows with the catalog and the order history, and product images take up space. That is why a store takes twice the memory of a website with the same traffic
01 · Minimum
2 × 2 GB
disk from 30 GB
A catalog of up to a few hundred products, a few orders a day
02 · Workingtypical choice
2 × 4 GB
disk from 50 GB
WooCommerce or OpenCart, thousands of products, dozens of orders a day
03 · With headroom
4 × 8 GB
disk from 80 GB
Bitrix, integrations with 1C and marketplaces, sales with peak load
What to check before paying
- The disk subsystem: on a store the difference between SSD and NVMe shows in how the catalog renders
- Whether there are snapshots to roll back after a failed module update
- How the provider behaves under a traffic spike, whether resources can be added quickly
- Whether there is enough space for product images with two years of headroom
How this ties into the matching. The calculator below is already set up for this workload: 2 cores and 4 GB of memory from the recommendation are filled in. You can change the values and the match recalculates instantly. A workload fit adds +25 points to a provider, the full formula
Matching
Find a server for a online store
Server matching
108 plans with a verified price, data checked August 17, 202601 · Workloadwe suggest 2 × 4 GB
A store on WooCommerce, OpenCart, Bitrix or a custom CMS
02 · Location
03 · Memory4 GB
1 GB64 GB
04 · Cores2 cores
116
05 · Budgetup to $25 / month
$5no limit
06 · Requirements
Provider commission is not part of the formula. How the score works
Matching result18 matching plans
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is*hosting
Medium · 3 × 4 GB · 40 GB SSD · Global
✓ Listed for “Online store”✓ Plan covers 2 cores and 4 GB RAM✓ Within budget
03
BegetRussia
VPS 3 · 2 × 4 GB · 40 GB NVMe · kz
✓ Listed for “Online store”✓ Plan covers 2 cores and 4 GB RAM✓ Within budget
04
MassiveGRID
Professional · 4 × 8 GB · 128 GB NVMe · Asia
✓ Listed for “Online store”✓ Plan covers 2 cores and 4 GB RAM✓ Within budget
05
Truehost
Cloud Pro · 2 × 4 GB · 100 GB SSD · Global
✓ Listed for “Online store”✓ Plan covers 2 cores and 4 GB RAM✓ Within budget
06
Cloudways
DO Standard 4GB · 2 × 4 GB · 80 GB SSD · Global
✓ Listed for “Online store”✓ Plan covers 2 cores and 4 GB RAM✕ Over budget by $17
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Plans
Suitable plans from the base
Selected are the ones that cover the recommended configuration: at least 2 cores and 4 GB of memory
| Provider | Plan | CPU | RAM | Disk | Price per GB | Verified | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hostman | Cloud 4 | 2 | 4 GB | 80 GB NVMe | $2 | August 3, 2026 | $8 |
| Beget | VPS 3 | 2 | 4 GB | 40 GB NVMe | $3 | August 16, 2026 | $12 |
| Truehost | Cloud Pro | 2 | 4 GB | 100 GB SSD | $3 | August 17, 2026 | $13 |
| Hostman | Cloud 5 | 4 | 8 GB | 160 GB NVMe | $2 | August 3, 2026 | $17 |
| MassiveGRID | Professional | 4 | 8 GB | 128 GB NVMe | $2 | August 16, 2026 | $19 |
| is*hosting | Medium | 3 | 4 GB | 40 GB SSD | $5 | August 3, 2026 | $21 |
| is*hosting | Premium | 4 | 8 GB | 50 GB SSD | $4 | August 3, 2026 | $34 |
| Hostman | Cloud 6 | 8 | 16 GB | 320 GB NVMe | $2 | August 3, 2026 | $37 |
| Cloudways | DO Standard 4GB | 2 | 4 GB | 80 GB SSD | $10 | August 17, 2026 | $42 |
| RoseHosting | NVME 4 | 3 | 4 GB | 80 GB NVMe | $16 | August 16, 2026 | $65 |
| Cloudways | DO Standard 8GB | 4 | 8 GB | 160 GB SSD | $11 | August 17, 2026 | $88 |
| RoseHosting | NVME 8 | 4 | 8 GB | 120 GB NVMe | $11 | August 16, 2026 | $90 |
Providers
Who claims this workload
Very broad geography: more than forty VPS locations plus a separate dedicated-server line. Handy when you need a specific host cou…
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Plans from$6
HO
A managed cloud that deploys apps from your repository in a few clicks. A fit for teams without dedicated DevOps: updates, monitor…
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Plans from$4
TR
An inexpensive cloud with an easy start and global presence. A reasonable pick to launch a small project when you just need a chea…
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Plans from$6
A cloud with NVMe storage and sites in New York, London, Frankfurt and Singapore. A 2 Gbps uplink and an uptime SLA are advertised
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Plans from$4
A managed NVMe VPS with server administration handled by the provider. A single US data center, but they take on setup and server…
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Plans from$44
BE
A well-known Russian host with a convenient panel, NVMe storage and hourly billing. Sites in Russia and Kazakhstan
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Plans from$4
Managed cloud hosting on top of DigitalOcean, AWS, Google Cloud, Vultr and Linode. The platform handles server setup, caching and…
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Plans from$11
Questions
Common questions about a online store
Do I need a separate server for the database
Up to a few thousand products and dozens of orders a day, no: the database and the application live together comfortably. Splitting them makes sense when the server starts hitting its memory limit during a catalog export, or when an integration with an accounting system blocks the storefront
What matters more for a store, cores or memory
Memory. Cores are needed when dozens of non-cacheable pages are computed at once, but a memory shortage kills a store immediately: the database spills to disk and the catalog starts taking seconds to open
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