PrestaShop Hosting & Infrastructure Audit

Does your hosting actually fit your PrestaShop store?

Hosting is where many PrestaShop performance and reliability problems really start — underpowered servers, an old PHP version, no caching layer, no CDN, weak TLS and no real backup or failover. This specialist hosting and infrastructure audit assesses your setup against what PrestaShop actually needs and gives you clear, vendor-neutral recommendations before you change providers or servers.

Who it is for

For merchants with slow or unreliable stores, those outgrowing shared hosting, and anyone weighing a migration who wants an honest read before committing budget. We assess hosting for PrestaShop 1.6, 1.7, 8 and 9, multistore and multilingual, on any provider — shared, VPS, cloud or dedicated — and frame every finding around what your catalogue size and traffic actually demand, not a generic spec sheet.

How the audit is actually performed

We assess resilience and fit, not raw benchmarks for their own sake. The review walks the stack the way a request does: the edge (CDN, TLS, HTTP version) down through the web server and PHP runtime to the database and the disk it sits on, and then sideways into the things that only matter when something goes wrong — backups, restore testing and failover. For each layer we compare what you run against what a PrestaShop store of your size genuinely needs, then judge whether a gap is a real risk or a theoretical one. A small store on solid shared hosting may be perfectly fine; the same plan under a 40,000-product catalogue with traffic spikes is a reliability incident waiting to happen. The output is a fit-and-resilience verdict, not a spec comparison.

Example findings you can expect

Typical results on a real PrestaShop store: a PHP version one or two releases behind, leaving measurable speed and security on the table; no OPcache or no Redis, so PrestaShop is doing work on every request that should be cached; MySQL/MariaDB left on defaults that throttle a growing catalogue; TLS terminating at an old protocol or missing HTTP/2, and security headers absent; a CDN either missing or misconfigured so it never actually offloads static assets; and — the one that ends businesses — backups that exist but have never been restore-tested, or a single point of failure where one server outage takes the whole store down. Each finding states the risk, the likelihood, and what to do about it.

What we deliberately ignore — and the wasted work this prevents

The most expensive mistake in hosting is migrating for the wrong reason. We will not tell you to switch hosts to chase a bigger number when the real fix is enabling Redis, raising a PHP limit or adding a CDN on the plan you already pay for — a move that costs migration risk, downtime and a new monthly bill to solve a problem a configuration change would have. Equally, we will not let you stay put when the host genuinely cannot deliver what your catalogue needs. We are vendor-neutral and sell no hosting, so the recommendation is the cheapest reliable answer, not the one with an affiliate link.

What is — and is not — included

The audit is the assessment and the plan, not the migration or the server work. We do not move your store, reconfigure your server or sign you up to a host as part of this engagement. If you want us to carry out the migration or apply the changes, we scope that separately and honestly — and we will tell you plainly when staying put with better configuration beats moving, because a migration done to solve a problem a toggle would have fixed is pure cost and risk. Priced at €290, fixed.

Where it fits

Hosting and performance are tightly linked, so pair this with a Performance Audit for the application layer and a Security Audit for the full infrastructure picture. Our Performance Revolution module adds the cache layers many hosts lack. See all Expert Services.

Why us

We run PrestaShop in production across multiple hosting setups — shared, VPS, cloud and dedicated — and build the caching and performance tooling merchants rely on, so the advice is grounded in real operations. Because we earn nothing from where you host, our only incentive is to point you at the cheapest reliable answer, which is frequently a configuration change rather than a costly move.