Hosting for online shops
Get your shop online without paying a fortune for hosting
Run a small online store with WooCommerce or other shop software, with free HTTPS on every page. On the same simple £0.99 hosting, with your first 30 days free.
- No card to start
- No setup fee
- Cancel anytime
Same Traxio hosting, same £0.99. This isn’t a separate plan — it’s the one service.
Shops that suit Traxio
A first online shop
A few dozen products, taking orders through your payment provider.
Makers and crafters
Sell handmade products from your own site.
Local businesses
Click and collect, gift vouchers and pre-orders.
Digital products
Small downloads, patterns and printables.
Bookings and deposits
Take bookings with a WooCommerce booking plugin.
A shop alongside a website
Add a store to an existing WordPress site.
What a small shop needs
Shop software is PHP and a database, plus HTTPS. Traxio includes all of it.
WooCommerce and shop apps
Add WooCommerce to WordPress, or install shop software from Softaculous.
Set up WooCommerceFree SSL on every page
HTTPS for your whole shop, issued and renewed automatically.
Force HTTPS everywherePayments via your provider
Checkout runs through your payment provider, so card details never touch your hosting.
How shop payments workCaching that works with carts
LiteSpeed caching speeds up product pages while leaving the basket alone.
Set up LSCacheOrder emails that arrive
Send order confirmations through SMTP, with SPF, DKIM and DMARC.
WordPress SMTPBackups
Download your products, orders and settings whenever you like.
Back up WordPress
Your shop, step by step
Connect your domain and install WordPress
SSL is issued as soon as your domain points to Traxio.
Add WooCommerce
Set up products, shipping and a payment provider.
Make order emails reliable
Customers need their confirmations.
Lock it down
Updates, strong passwords and backups.
Honest advice about running a shop on 99p hosting
A small shop doesn’t need expensive hosting. What it needs is HTTPS, a current PHP version, a reliable database and emails that arrive — all of which Traxio includes.
Card payments are handled by your payment provider’s checkout, not by your hosting, so card details never touch your server. That’s safer for you and your customers.
Be realistic about size. 3GB of storage holds a few hundred well-optimised product photos with room to spare, but not thousands of high-resolution images. And a shop with heavy, sustained traffic will want more capacity than shared hosting gives. For a new or small store, it’s a very sensible place to start, and the help centre explains the limits in plain English.
Will your shop fit?
A good fit for
- New shops and small catalogues
- Makers, crafters and local businesses
- Adding a shop to an existing WordPress site
- Owners happy to run their own updates
Needs more than shared hosting
- Thousands of products with large images
- Heavy, sustained traffic or big sales events
- A guaranteed response time if the shop goes down
- Storing card details on your own server (don’t)
What it costs
The same simple price as every Traxio account.
The complete hosting service. Every feature, no card needed.
Same hosting, same price, this year and next. That’s £11.88 a year.
- No card to startUse all 30 days without giving payment details.
- No automatic chargeNothing is taken during the trial. You pay only if you continue.
- No setup feeStarting costs nothing. There’s no admin or activation charge.
- No price rise£0.99 is the ongoing price, not a first-year teaser.
- Nothing added on topNo VAT, card fees or paid SSL on the £0.99.
- Leave whenever you likeMonthly billing, no minimum term, no cancellation fee.
Guides for shop owners
Free for everyone in the Traxio help centre, whether you’re a customer yet or not.
Ecommerce hosting questions
Can I run WooCommerce on Traxio?
Yes. WooCommerce runs on WordPress, which installs in one click. For a small shop it runs comfortably, especially with LiteSpeed caching switched on.
Is my shop secure?
Every page can use free SSL, the servers have real-time malware and bot protection, and card payments go through your payment provider. Keeping WordPress and plugins updated is your part. The checklist
How many products can I sell?
There’s no product limit. Storage is the practical one: 3GB holds a few hundred optimised product images comfortably.
Do I need a separate SSL certificate for a shop?
No. The free certificate covers your whole domain and renews automatically.
What if my shop grows?
Take a backup and move to bigger hosting when you need to. There’s no exit fee and no lock-in.
- Also on the same hosting:
- Your first website
- Small businesses
- Blogs
- WordPress
- CMS websites
- Forums & communities
- Personal projects
Start free.
Keep it for 99p.
Proper shared hosting for your website and email, with DirectAdmin. First month free, £0.99/month afterwards: no card to start, no setup fee, and the same price every year.
- £0 today
- No card required
- £0.99/month afterwards
- Cancel anytime