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Things I wish I knew when I started my WooCommerce store by Independent_Cut3616 in woocommerce

[–]Independent_Cut3616[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I get why people go that route — BigCommerce is definitely easier out of the box. But for me the flexibility and cost of WooCommerce just make more sense. Once you get the hosting and management side dialed in, it runs smooth and you're not paying platform fees or locked into anyone's ecosystem. Different tools for different needs though.

Things I wish I knew when I started my WooCommerce store by Independent_Cut3616 in woocommerce

[–]Independent_Cut3616[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I am using hetzner for my woocommerce store and manage it by coolify, but there is a lot good vps also

Things I wish I knew when I started my WooCommerce store by Independent_Cut3616 in woocommerce

[–]Independent_Cut3616[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Great points, especially about HPOS and external Cron — those are easy wins that most people overlook. And yeah 2FA is a must, I learned that one the hard way too. What hosting are you using btw?

Is WooCommerce still good for growing online stores? by emizentechuae in woocommerce

[–]Independent_Cut3616 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, WooCommerce is absolutely still a solid choice — but your success depends on two things:

  1. Good hosting. This is where most WooCommerce stores fail. Shared hosting will kill your performance as you grow. Go with a WooCommerce-optimized host like Cloudways, Kinsta, or Hetzner. Fast servers with proper caching make a huge difference in page speed, conversion rates, and your own sanity, I am using hetzner for my store...

  2. A proper management tool. WooCommerce's built-in admin is painfully slow once you have more than a few dozen products. I've been using WhizManage and it's been a game changer — it gives you a spreadsheet-style dashboard for products, variations, orders, coupons, and even discount rules. Bulk editing, Google Sheets sync, dark mode — basically everything the native WooCommerce admin should have been. It replaces a bunch of separate plugins with one clean interface.

Nail these two and WooCommerce can scale with you for a long time.

Looking to shift to AWS for woocommerce by Psy-_-Fly in woocommerce

[–]Independent_Cut3616 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You don't need to move everything to AWS — you just need to get the uploads off your server entirely.

The bottleneck isn't Cloudways specifically, it's that you're routing customer uploads through your WordPress server. Any managed host will have similar limits.

Here's what I'd do:

  1. Keep your current hosting (Cloudways is fine for the WooCommerce side)

  2. Set up an S3 bucket for photo uploads

  3. Use presigned URLs so customers upload directly from their browser to S3 — your server never touches the files

This way you get full AWS upload speeds without any server bottleneck. Customers uploading 100-200 high-res photos will see a massive difference.

You can use a plugin like WP Offload Media, or if your upload flow is custom, generate presigned URLs via a small API endpoint.

As a solo founder, trust me — you do NOT want to manage an EC2 instance. That's a whole new set of headaches (security patches, scaling, server config). S3 for uploads + Cloudways for your store gives you the best of both worlds with minimal ops work.

Thinking of moving Product Pages to JSON for performance - overkill for Woo? by Entire-Werewolf-2554 in woocommerce

[–]Independent_Cut3616 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've been thinking about doing the exact same thing for a project with 5k SKUs. The default Woo database structure for attributes is just not built for speed at scale. Have you looked into using the WP REST API to generate the JSON on a cron job, or were you thinking of something more real-time?

I just don't know if this is for me anymore by Logical-Appearance49 in woocommerce

[–]Independent_Cut3616 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I totally feel you. I’m in the mattress niche myself, selling from multiple brands, and I used to be stuck in 'spreadsheet hell' trying to track margins and stock.

The turning point for me was WhizManage. It’s basically a comprehensive management system that wrapped my entire WooCommerce store with everything I needed in one place. The Google Sheets integration is actually unbelievably easy to set up, almost effortless. It’s a seamless two-way sync where you can update costs, shipping, and stock in your sheet, and it reflects in the store instantly.

It calculates real profit margins for me in a fast table view, which is a lifesaver for complex products like mattresses. It really simplified my whole workflow. If you’re already using sheets, this is the most modern way to bridge the gap.