Choosing a hosting provider for your PrestaShop store

A hosting service is, in the same way as a store in the real world, a virtual location that will allow you to store and publish all the information related to your website (resources, HTML code, images, videos, etc.) in order to make them public and accessible on the Internet.

Since each of your files consumes storage space, it is essential to select a high-quality host, as well as a type of hosting that is suited to the potential traffic and connections to your site on a daily basis. The more traffic you have on your site, the more your server will need to be able to support the load. Please ensure that you check with your host to guarantee optimal loading speed and quick execution of the various actions on your e-commerce site.

PrestaShop is a partner of Hostinger, a host that allows for easy installation of PrestaShop thanks to its automatic installation system. You can thus host and configure your store in just a few clicks directly from the Hostinger interface, simplifying all the steps of the process.

For the choice of your hosting, you can also use other platforms such as Gandi, OVH Cloud, O2switch, LWS, PlanetHoster...

Please ensure that your hosting provider is compatible with PrestaShop, namely:

• Compatible with Windows, Linux or Unix,
• Sufficient memory capacity on the server side (64 GB of RAM),
• Recent version of PHP (minimum version 8 recommended, the vast majority of hosting providers offer this version by default),
• Recent version of MySQL (minimum 5, once again, hosting providers offer this version by default.

Upon subscribing, you should receive an email from your hosting service containing all the information you will need to design your site (FTP host, username, password, port used, etc.). You can also obtain this information directly from your administration interface (your customer area), which contains all the parameters relating to your FTP access, which will serve as your login credentials.