Best VPS for OpenCart

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OpenCart is lean

OpenCart is a lightweight PHP shopping cart. It runs comfortably on a 1GB VPS for small catalogs and needs only PHP 8.1+, MySQL/MariaDB, and Apache or Nginx.

What matters most

• Fast disk I/O for product images and page renders
• A dedicated IPv4 so your store’s SSL and email don’t get blacklisted
• Full root access to enable PHP opcache and gzip

Minimal setup

sudo apt update
sudo apt install apache2 php8.1 mariadb-server

Turn on opcache and use a caching extension to keep page loads under a second. For a store with a few thousand products, a 2GB unmanaged KVM VPS gives you room to grow without paying for shared-hosting limits.