What does the PrestaShop Hosting & Infrastructure Audit cover?

The PrestaShop Hosting & Infrastructure Audit assesses your hosting against real-world store load, how your shop behaves under actual traffic and admin activity, rather than the spec-sheet promises in a hosting plan. A “fast” server on paper can still deliver slow pages once a full PrestaShop catalogue, modules and back-office tasks are running on it. We examine the layers that actually determine speed, stability and resilience:

• PHP version & server resources, CPU, memory and limits versus your traffic. We check whether your PHP version is current and supported, and whether memory limits, execution time and worker capacity match the load your store really sees.
• Cache layers, OPcache, Redis, full-page cache and how they're configured. Misconfigured or absent caching is one of the most common causes of slow PrestaShop pages, and we verify each layer is present and doing its job.
• CDN & edge, delivery, cache hit-rates and origin protection. We look at whether static assets and pages are served from the edge, how often the cache is actually hit, and whether your origin is shielded.
• TLS / HTTP, certificate, HTTP/2-3 and security headers. Outdated protocols and missing headers cost both performance and safety.
• Backups, failover & uptime. Whether you could survive an outage or a bad deploy. We assess whether backups exist, are recent and are actually restorable, and what happens when something fails.

Why it matters

Hosting sits underneath everything else: no amount of front-end optimisation rescues a store on an undersized or badly configured server. PrestaShop in particular is sensitive to PHP configuration, caching and database performance, so small infrastructure gaps surface as slow category pages, sluggish admin, and lost sales during traffic spikes. This audit is for owners who suspect their host is part of the problem, or who simply want to know, honestly, whether their current setup can carry where the store is heading.