Here are two fast WooCommerce hosts that cost $300 or less per year:
Rocket.Net: Good Speed & Support
Rocket.Net has solid server resources for hosting WooCommerce. They integrate Cloudflare Enterprise into their services (not the free version of Cloudflare). This means you get optimized routing to 100 countries, plus many other accelerations via Cloudflare. Note that Cloudflare company that attracted some controversy.
Their Starter Plan costs $300 per year or $30 per month.
The plan has these features:
- Full Integration of Cloudflare Enterprise:
- Enterprise CDN (Content Delivery Network): 275 cities & 100 countries
- Full Page Caching
- Argo Smart Routing
- Image optimization (Mirage + Polish)
- Brotil HTML Compression
- DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) Attack Protection
- WAF (Web Application Firewall)
- Redis Object Cache
- 2 cores + 128GB RAM
- NVMe SSDs (“nonvolatile memory express” solid-state disks)
- PHP Opcache (PHP script caching)
- Automatic Database Optimization
- Optimized Google Fonts
Rocket.net provides service from 15 global locations across the globe. The locations are:
- Atlanta, United States
- Ashburn, United States
- Chicago, United States
- Dallas, United States
- Los Angeles, United States
- New York City, United States
- Phoenix, United States
- San Jose, United States
- Seattle, United States
- Amsterdam, Netherlands
- London, United Kingdom
- Frankfurt, Germany
- Sydney, Australia
- Tokyo, Japan.
- Singapore, Asia
Nexcess: PHP Flexibility, WooCommerce Enhancements
Nexcess is a managed provider with many custom features for WooCommerce hosting. The service is good but not as comprehensive as fully managed hosts like Rocket or Pressable.
Their Starter Plan costs $190 per year or $19 per month.
The plan has these features:
- 10 autoscaled PHP workers per site
- Cloud Accelerator (eCommerce caching for dynamic pages)
- Redis Object Cache (Pro Version)
- Nexcess CDN
- TinyPNG Image Compression
- Web Application Firewall (WAF)
- DDoS prevention
- Customized malware detection