How to Scale a WooCommerce Store (15 Pro Tips)
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A phased guide to scaling WooCommerce stores for high traffic and concurrency. Covers four phases: Phase 1 focuses on quick maintenance wins like database cleanup, plugin audits, image compression, and disabling cart fragments. Phase 2 addresses core performance with WooCommerce-aware caching, SMTP offloading, lazy loading for large catalogs, and replacing default search with an indexed solution. Phase 3 tackles infrastructure upgrades including enabling High-Performance Order Storage (HPOS), adding Redis object caching, deploying a Web Application Firewall, and using a CDN. Phase 4 covers advanced stability measures like virtual waiting rooms for traffic spikes and migrating to managed WooCommerce hosting with burst capacity.
