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A small shop with few products and a handful of orders a day runs well on a shared plan, though not necessarily the lowest one. A shop weighs more than a brochure site because the cart and the checkout can never come from cache: every visitor who buys makes the server think. That is why shops are the first kind of site to feel a tight plan.
What weighs on a shop
| Part of the shop | What it does to the server |
| Catalogue and product pages | These can be served from a page cache. They weigh little if the images are handled. |
| Cart, checkout and customer account | Never cached, because they differ for every person. This is where usage climbs. |
| Order e-mails | Each order sends messages to the customer and to you. On campaign days they add up, and the plan has a ceiling on messages per hour. |
| Product images | Each photo produces several versions. A big catalogue takes disk space and many files. See the limits nobody advertises. |
How to choose, step by step
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A shop without a cart weighs like a website
A shop that shows products and takes orders by WhatsApp or by form, with no cart or checkout on the site, weighs like a brochure site and fits an ordinary plan. The cart and the checkout are what make the difference. You can do it in phases: start without them and add them once someone will use them. See opening an online shop without starting from nothing.
| The signs the shop needs more: checkout slows down on exactly the campaign days, order confirmations arrive late or queue up, the disk fills with images, or 508 errors show up at peak hours. One sign alone may be just a plugin. Two or three together mean the shop is asking for a step. See website errors explained. |
| Card payments call for care. A shop that takes payments should not keep card data on its own site; connecting a payment service takes care of that. What this implies is explained in selling online and card data. |
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Opening a shop and want to know whether the plan will hold? Tell us the platform and how many products you have, and we will say what makes sense. Open a support ticket |
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