OpenCart Hosting on MassiveGRID PaaS
OpenCart is a free, open-source PHP shopping cart that is quick to set up, light on resources and extended by more than 13,000 modules and themes. The MassiveGRID PaaS package installs OpenCart with a tuned PHP server and database in one click, ideal for small and mid-sized stores that want low running costs.
OpenCart on MassiveGRID PaaS installs in one click in New York, London, Frankfurt or Singapore, costs about $29.52 a month for the Starter configuration, a PHP application server (1 GiB) and a MySQL or MariaDB database (512 MiB), and starts with a 14-day free trial. See the sizing table.
Both buttons open the MassiveGRID PaaS dashboard with OpenCart pre-selected. Sign up without a card, name the environment, pick a region, and the package installs in a few minutes.
OpenCart Package Facts
| Attribute | Value |
|---|---|
| Package | OpenCart |
| Type | Application (installs a complete environment) |
| Category | E-commerce |
| Software vendor / project | OpenCart Ltd |
| Licence | GPLv3 (open source) |
| Runtime / stack | PHP application server, MySQL or MariaDB |
| Regions | New York, London, Frankfurt, Singapore |
| Billing | Pay-per-use, about $29.52/month for the Starter configuration (12 cloudlets at $0.003372 per cloudlet-hour), no licence fee |
| Free trial | 14 days, no credit card |
| Uptime SLA | 100% |
What is OpenCart?
OpenCart gives merchants a working store in minutes: unlimited products and categories, multi-store from one admin, multiple currencies and languages, built-in payment and shipping integrations, reports and a marketplace of extensions. Its simplicity keeps hosting requirements modest, which makes it one of the cheapest shops to keep online on pay-per-use PaaS.
The package provisions a PHP application server and a MySQL or MariaDB database, installs OpenCart and completes the setup so you can log into the admin straight away. Vertical auto-scaling adds capacity for promotions, and environment snapshots protect you before upgrades.
What the OpenCart Package Deploys
Marketplace packages are not bare container images. One click provisions a complete, production-shaped environment on MassiveGRID infrastructure. How these nodes are sized and what they cost.
- PHP application server: Apache or NGINX with PHP-FPM, OPcache and the extensions OpenCart requires, with SEO URLs enabled.
- MySQL or MariaDB database: A linked database container with credentials written into the OpenCart configuration.
- OpenCart core: The current stable release with the installer completed and the install directory removed.
- Built-in domain and SSL: Customers check out over HTTPS immediately; attach your own domain via Let's Encrypt.
What OpenCart Costs to Run
Three starting configurations for the OpenCart package, sized in cloudlets (1 cloudlet = 128 MiB RAM + 400 MHz CPU) and priced at the published rate of $0.003372 per cloudlet-hour, or $2.46 per cloudlet-month.
| Configuration | Topology | Cloudlets | Est. per month |
|---|---|---|---|
| StarterEvaluation and small teams | PHP application server (8 cloudlets, 1 GiB), MySQL or MariaDB database (4 cloudlets, 512 MiB) | 12 | $29.52 |
| StandardA team in daily use | PHP application server (16 cloudlets, 2 GiB), MySQL or MariaDB database (8 cloudlets, 1 GiB) | 24 | $59.04 |
| ProductionHigh traffic, scaled horizontally | NGINX load balancer (4 cloudlets, 512 MiB), 2 × PHP application server (16 cloudlets, 2 GiB each), MySQL or MariaDB database (16 cloudlets, 2 GiB) | 52 | $127.92 |
Estimates assume the environment averages the listed cloudlets around the clock; billing is hourly, vertical auto-scaling lowers the figure when the application is idle, and volume discounts apply as usage grows. Disk and external traffic are billed per gigabyte on top. No licence fee applies to the package. Pick a row in the installer by setting the cloudlet limits per node, or start small and let auto-scaling grow it. Price a different topology or a working-hours schedule in the PaaS pricing calculator; the PaaS page describes the billing model.
Why Teams Choose OpenCart
Fast to launch
A complete store with categories, checkout and payments in one afternoon, no developer required.
Low resource footprint
Runs comfortably on a small cloudlet allocation, so an early-stage shop costs a few dollars a month.
Multi-store
Several storefronts with different domains, themes and catalogues managed from one admin.
Extensions marketplace
Thousands of payment gateways, shipping methods, themes and marketing modules.
How to Install OpenCart on MassiveGRID PaaS
Installing the package takes three steps and a few minutes of waiting. No servers to provision, no configuration files to edit.
Open the installer
Click Install with free trial or Install to my account. The MassiveGRID PaaS dashboard opens with the OpenCart package pre-selected, so nothing has to be copied or pasted.
Sign up or sign in
New to the platform? Sign up for the free 14-day trial, which needs no credit card. Existing customers sign in with their usual dashboard credentials.
Choose region and deploy
Name the environment, pick New York, London, Frankfurt or Singapore, and confirm. The platform builds every OpenCart node, wires them together and hands you the live URL and credentials.
Who Runs OpenCart on PaaS
Start-up online shops
First-time merchants who want a real store without SaaS fees or heavy infrastructure.
Niche and hobby retailers
Small catalogues that need reliability and SSL but not enterprise features.
Multi-brand small businesses
Owners running two or three storefronts from one OpenCart admin.
Why Run OpenCart on MassiveGRID PaaS
Built for uptime. OpenCart runs on MassiveGRID's high-availability platform, where every environment is covered by a 100% uptime SLA. Nodes live on redundant hosts, storage is replicated, and failed containers are restarted or migrated automatically.
Pay for what you use. Billing is hourly and per cloudlet (128 MiB RAM plus 400 MHz CPU). Vertical auto-scaling adds and removes cloudlets as load changes, so a quiet OpenCart environment costs a few dollars a month and a busy one grows without a migration. Full details are on the PaaS page.
Your choice of jurisdiction. Deploy in New York, London, Frankfurt or Singapore and keep data inside the region your users or regulators require. MassiveGRID is ISO 27001 and ISO 9001 certified and GDPR compliant, and has run hosting infrastructure since 2003.
No lock-in. The package is a standard Jelastic Packaging Standard (JPS) manifest. You keep root-level access to the containers, can export the manifest, and can move the workload to any other Jelastic-compatible platform or to your own servers at any time.
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