prestashop hosting PrestaShop Hosted : is €24 monthly plan really capped at €1,000 turnover?

[Mehdi Bourechka]

Hi all,

Has anyone here actually tried PrestaShop Hosted?

I’m curious about the starting plan at €24/month. I read online that it’s for stores under €1,000/month in sales, then jumps to €65/month, €150/month, and custom pricing for higher turnover.

Is that true in practice?

Is it just a price change or are there other hiden limits?

I’ve used AWS,O2switch, Hostinger,and OVH for clients, but never had the chance to test PrestaShop Hosted in real conditions.

How does it compare in terms of speed, uptime, and pricing?

And What are the best hosting your are running prestashop on and you find reliable ?

Would be great to hear from anyone with real-world experience!

[El Patron]

PrestaShop Hosted is part of a broader shift in their business model.
The open-source software is still free, but with more merchants moving to subscription-based platforms like Shopify, Wix, or BigCommerce, PrestaShop is following a similar path — offering a subscription service with tiered pricing based on turnover.

ovh has nvme for vps, one can also get plesk (but do not recommend for US as they have 'no support' clause for US)

I'm big fan of https://www.fasthosts.co.uk/

liquidweb 

I found aws, justs to complicated for most right brain....

even godaddy, don't laugh we have them to thank for allowing more than one domain name  to be assigned to one hosting package loool.

Edited August 11 by El Patron (see edit history)

[Mehdi Bourechka]

22 hours ago, El Patron said:

PrestaShop Hosted is part of a broader shift in their business model.
The open-source software is still free, but with more merchants moving to subscription-based platforms like Shopify, Wix, or BigCommerce, PrestaShop is following a similar path — offering a subscription service with tiered pricing based on turnover.

ovh has nvme for vps, one can also get plesk (but do not recommend for US as they have 'no support' clause for US)

I'm big fan of https://www.fasthosts.co.uk/

liquidweb 

I found aws, justs to complicated for most right brain....

even godaddy, don't laugh we have them to thank for allowing more than one domain name  to be assigned to one hosting package loool.

I have tried a lot of different hosting providers before but eventually I moved to AWS because I wanted a real way to measure whether a website was actually fast in practice. The easy, intuitive approach is to just run PageSpeed Insights and look at the numbers but that is honestly misleading. I have seen plenty of websites that score 90+ but still feel slow when you actually browse them.

 

For me, a truly robust hosting setup needs to pass two key tests.

First, it has to handle a lot of checkout processes over time with different intervals, like one person logging in and completing checkout every five minutes or even every minute. We ran this stress test on many hosting providers under 30 dollars per month.

Second, it has to handle simultaneous checkouts, meaning multiple people checking out in the same second. This is where almost all hosts in the under 30 dollars per month range fail, often showing latency of 7 seconds or more when 5 users are doing that checkout process at the same time.

 

AWS was the only one that passed both tests for me and scaling there is straightforward. Of course, it costs more but if you want true robustness you are looking at at least 4 vCPUs and 16 GB of RAM, which can run you anywhere from 80 to 100 dollars per month.

 

The tricky part is their pricing model. I tried testing a 24 dollars per month Prestashop hosted plan but when I went to checkout they required accepting a 100 euros payment hold, even though they said you could test it for free for a certain period. I did not move forward with that. Compared to something like Shopify, which lets you test their infrastructure for three months for just one euro, Prestashop hosted feels less accessible.

 

The reason I put so much weight on simultaneous checkout performance is because on big traffic days like Black Friday servers without proper scalability can go down fast. On traditional hosting, scaling up under pressure is a nightmare. That is why I focus on robustness and scalability as the real benchmarks for good hosting.