Shopify review
Hosted ecommerce platform, not traditional hosting
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Quick verdict
The straightforward answer for a serious shop where you would rather sell than administer servers.
A fully hosted ecommerce platform. You do not manage hosting at all — infrastructure, PCI compliance and scaling are handled, in exchange for platform fees and less control.
Who it suits
- · Online shops
- · First-time site owners
Who should look elsewhere
- · Monthly platform fee plus transaction fees unless using Shopify Payments
- · Limited control over the underlying stack
- · Migrating away later is a real project
- · No email hosting for your domain
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How this rating is built
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What is good
- Nothing to patch, scale or secure yourself
- Handles payment compliance and checkout
- Very large app and theme ecosystem
- Scales through traffic spikes without intervention
What is not
- Monthly platform fee plus transaction fees unless using Shopify Payments
- Limited control over the underlying stack
- Migrating away later is a real project
- No email hosting for your domain
The detail
Features and specifications
Anything marked unknown has not been verified by an editor yet. We would rather show a gap than a guess.
Hosting and platform
- Control panel
- Shopify Admin
- UK data centre
- Unknown
- Data centre regions
- Unknown
- Free SSL
- Yes
- Email hosting included
- No
- Free migration
- Unknown
- Money-back period
- Unknown
Performance and tooling
- Staging environment
- Unknown
- CDN included
- Yes
- Object caching
- Unknown
- Redis
- Unknown
- Automatic backups
- Unknown
- Backup retention
- Unknown
Developer access
- SSH access
- Unknown
- Git
- Unknown
- WP-CLI
- Unknown
- Cron jobs
- Unknown
- PHP versions
- Unknown
- Node.js support
- Unknown
Ecommerce and security
- WooCommerce support
- Unknown
- Malware protection
- Unknown
- Web application firewall
- Unknown
- DDoS protection
- Unknown
- Support channels
- live chat, email, knowledge base, community
Pricing
What it costs
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| Plan | Type | Sites | Latest checked price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Basic | ecommerce | — | GBP 19 |
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Sources
Where this information came from
- Shopify hosting overview· Capabilities and plan structure · checked 17/08/2026
- Shopify pricing page· Entry pricing · checked 17/08/2026
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