Seasonal shopping events can define the success of WooCommerce stores. The key? A hosting solution that handles thousands of products, high traffic, and ensures zero downtime. Pressidium’s enterprise WooCommerce hosting delivers exactly that. Let us share with you how!
WooCommerce is a powerful WordPress plugin, powering nearly 30% of online stores. Its reliability and features make it popular, but scaling WooCommerce presents unique challenges.
How WooCommerce Handles Thousands of Products
Because WooCommerce is a plugin, there are a number of common questions surrounding the scalability of the platform such as ‘How many products can WooCommerce handle?’ that we are frequently asked.
Instinctively, WooCommerce users seem to assume that there are limitations on what WooCommerce can handle and that the growth of their eCommerce site could become a problem. A quick Google of ‘WooCommerce Issues’ will flag up lots of potential problems and in doing so can dissuade people from using WooCommerce.
In reality, WooCommerce can easily handle thousands of products and hundreds of thousands of visits daily—with the right setup. Challenges exist, but with optimized WooCommerce hosting, the platform scales seamlessly as your store grows.
Understanding WooCommerce Scalability
Scaling involves increasing the number of products and handling more traffic. WooCommerce can manage tens of thousands of products. However, for most stores, the real issue is accommodating high traffic volumes. This is especially critical during seasonal peaks.
Before we dive into the details on exactly how to scale a WooCommerce store we need to look at what is exactly meant by ‘scale’. On the face of it, it seems obvious. When we talk about scaling something, in this instance a WooCommerce store, we are probably thinking about the ability to increase both the number of products and the ability to handle more traffic to our site.
As mentioned, WooCommerce is more than capable of handling hundreds to thousands, if not potentially tens of thousands of products. For many online shops, however, the main challenge isn’t about finding a platform that can accommodate a large number of products or SKUs but whether or not their site can handle thousands or tens of thousands of visitors. It is primarily in this context that the ability of your store to scale needs to be examined.
Traffic Management: The Real Scalability Test
Traffic spikes often concentrate within short periods, similar to rush-hour traffic. Seasonal events like Black Friday and Cyber Monday amplify this challenge. Without preparation, your store risks downtime during peak times. Extended periods like Christmas add further strain, potentially resulting in lost revenue and damaged reputation.
Scaling WooCommerce for Seasonal Shopping
Before even beginning to prepare for seasonal scale you need to make sure your WooCommerce store is well-designed and well-coded. If you have 100’s of plugins running just to maintain basic functionality then it’s time to go back to the drawing board!
The next step is hosting your store with a provider specializing in WooCommerce. Many budget hosting solutions lack the infrastructure and expertise needed to handle traffic spikes, leaving your store vulnerable to downtime, lost revenue, and frustration. When your success depends on staying online, cutting corners isn’t worth the risk.
Introducing Pressidium Enterprise Hosting for WooCommerce
Hosting and scaling WooCommerce sites is complex.
- Caching needs to be highly optimized (Adaptive) to take account of the dynamic nature of WooCommerce stores.
- Speed is of paramount importance and a hosting platform needs to be able to handle complex SQL queries so that pages are quickly rendered.
- Uptime needs to be maintained regardless of traffic spikes.
None of this is easy! That is why the Pressidium Enterprise platform has been built from the ground up to handle these very issues and deliver a hosting solution that is carefully optimized for both WordPress and WooCommerce.
Our Enterprise plans guarantee high availability and scalability for your site and consist of a Dedicated Five Node Enterprise Server HA Cluster (5 Dedicated Servers with High Availability). In addition, our Enterprise Platform offers the following features:
- A fully managed environment with DevOps admin included.
- VIP 24×7 support & dedicated engineering team (5 min average response time by an experienced DevOps engineer – no escalations required.
- Fully managed security with real-time threat prevention and mediation
- Instant backups with one-click restore.
- Staging sites and full website cloning support.
- Plus much more!
Effortless Scalability with Pressidium
Pressidium’s hosting scales to 10 million visits and beyond. With plans starting at $750/month, businesses enjoy year-round reliability and can scale resources during seasonal peaks.
Unlike other providers, scaling with Pressidium involves no downtime or IP changes. Upgrades are handled seamlessly by our team, ensuring your store remains online and performant during high-traffic events.
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Clearly, neither of these scenarios is optimal. Fortunately, Pressidium’s Enterprise WooCommerce hosting now offers a real solution to the challenge of scaling WooCommerce stores.
Pressidium Enterprise hosting plans for WooCommerce are designed to scale up to 10 million visits or more. Starting with our Enterprise XS plan at just $790/month, you can now host your WooCommerce store on our industry-leading architecture and enjoy all the benefits that come with our Enterprise Plans.
For many businesses, the Enterprise XS plan offers all the resources you will need for much of the year. Thanks to our truly scalable architecture, you are also able to upgrade to a more powerful plan in anticipation of a traffic spike (such as seasonal traffic or Cyber Monday).
Unlike many other hosting solutions, scaling up has absolutely no downtime. Your WooCommerce store will not need to be migrated to new servers (something that could take days to do) and your IP Address will not change. Our team handles the upgrade entirely on our end, something that can be done incredibly quickly with absolutely NO disruption to your store.
With an increased level of resources now available for your store, you can be confident it’ll be able to handle the traffic spikes that you may be anticipating at certain times of the year.
But it’s not only seasonal events like Christmas where this effortless scalability comes into its own. You never quite know when your business might experience some unexpected traffic surges – perhaps your latest marketing campaign has gone viral and traffic numbers suddenly start to spike. Traditionally this would pose a real problem… in order to keep your site live, it would likely have to be taken offline for a day or more whilst your WooCommerce host migrated it to new servers. IP addresses would have to be changed and then you’d re-launch.
The problem is, by this point, you’ve already lost a sizeable amount of revenue and the momentum causing the traffic surge will have waned. With Pressidium Enterprise for WooCommerce, a single email to our DevOps Engineers (to which you’ll receive a reply in less than 5 minutes) will have them boosting your website’s resources with absolutely no downtime.
How much can downtime on your WooCommerce store cost you? Let’s do the math!
Not using dedicated WordPress WooCommerce hosting for your store could cause a variety of downtime scenarios… all of which could prove to be very expensive!
Downtime due to the inability to scale your WooCommerce store:
If your eCommerce store is making you $100,000 a day during the peak season, then just 48 hours of downtime as a result of having to migrate your site to new servers, point your domain to a new IP address, and so on would set you back a cool $200,000.
A Slow WooCommerce store:
A slow-loading site is effectively a form of downtime… after all, if your customers can’t view what they want quickly and easily then they will leave, possibly never to return! Site speed is critically important and something that Pressidium’s Enterprise platform delivers in spades.
And in terms of what a slow WooCommerce store could be costing you? Kissmetrics estimates that if your eCommerce site is making you $100,000 a day then a 1 second page delay could potentially be costing you a cool $2.5 million in lost sales annually!
Reputational Cost:
Your brand is valuable. Research has shown that an incredible 68% of people would view your brand negatively if your website was down when they tried to visit it. Over time, damage to your brand will take its toll on your business. Your brand is hugely important. You should be protecting it by ensuring your eCommerce site stays live at all times no matter what!
Pressidium Enterprise Hosting for WooCommerce
Pressidium Enterprise WordPress hosting offers the ideal solution for scaling WooCommerce stores. Our team are true WooCommerce experts and are here to help ensure your WooCommerce store runs as smoothly as possible. If you have any questions about our platform or about how Pressidium Enterprise can help with scaling WooCommerce sites don’t hesitate to contact our DevOps Engineers who will be able to answer any of your questions. Just hit the button below to get in touch!
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Frequently Asked Questions
How many products can WooCommerce handle?
WooCommerce can handle thousands of products if paired with a high-performance hosting provider. Pressidium’s managed hosting ensures scalability through advanced caching, optimized databases, and load-balanced architecture.
What is enterprise WooCommerce hosting?
Enterprise WooCommerce hosting provides the infrastructure needed to manage high-traffic stores, large catalogs, and seasonal traffic surges. Pressidium offers multi-layered architecture, uptime guarantees, and robust security for enterprise clients.
How do I scale WooCommerce for seasonal traffic spikes?
Scaling WooCommerce requires a combination of caching, CDN, database optimization, and scalable hosting. Pressidium automates scalability with enterprise-level solutions like load balancing and real-time monitoring.
