I need to import a very large product data feed into a new WooCommerce/WordPress installation. This involves adding tens of thousands of products, along with their data, variables, and images (including resizing and cropping).
In the past, I used standard VPS hosting for this, which took about a week of stop-and-start importing through a WooCommerce browser plugin.
Is it possible to set up a temporary server instance just for this import with a hosting provider and then move the site to a basic plan afterward?
Which cloud host would you recommend that offers support for WooCommerce right out of the box?
Why not just do the import locally and then move it to the appropriate hosting afterward?
You can use tools like WordPress.com Studio or Local by Flywheel to set everything up on your local machine before transferring it to your live server.
Absolutely, you can do that. Vultr lets you spin up a VPS by the hour. Just install CloudPanel (it’s super easy) and set up the site. You can use host files to access it.
I’d recommend at least a high-frequency CPU with 4 vCPUs and 16GB RAM, which costs about $0.143 per hour.
To import a large WooCommerce product feed, consider cloud hosting providers like Cloudzy or DigitalOcean. You can spin up a temporary server instance just for the import process and then switch to a basic plan afterward. Make sure to choose a provider that offers sufficient storage, processing power, and strong WooCommerce support.