High-Performance Web Hosting Australia — our fastest cPanel hosting.
Choose a Performance Plan
Performance 1
High traffic, premium speed.-
1 GB SSD Storage
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WooCommerce optimised
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50 concurrent connections
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Unlimited sites & domains
Performance 2
More storage, same power.-
2 GB SSD Storage
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WooCommerce optimised
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50 concurrent connections
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Unlimited sites & domains
Performance 5
Best value performance plan.-
5 GB SSD Storage
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WooCommerce optimised
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50 concurrent connections
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Unlimited sites & domains
Performance 10
Maximum performance storage.-
10 GB SSD Storage
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WooCommerce optimised
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50 concurrent connections
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Unlimited sites & domains
Unlimited sites and domains
Every cPanel plan — Starter, Business, and Performance — hosts unlimited sites and unlimited domains on a single account. Run your portfolio, your client demos, your staging copies, your blog, and your shopfront from one plan.
All sites share the plan’s resource ceiling (CPU, RAM, IO). When you outgrow it, upgrade to the next tier — no migration, no downtime.
Save with prepay
Prefer to pay annually? Lock in a discount with no contract:
- 1 year prepaid — pay for 11 months, get 12 (8% off)
- 2 years prepaid — pay for 20 months, get 24 (17% off)
Worked example for this tier:
- Performance 1 ($39/mo monthly) — 1 yr: $35.75/mo · 2 yr: $32.50/mo
- Performance 5 ($58/mo monthly) — 1 yr: $53.17/mo · 2 yr: $48.33/mo
- Performance 10 ($72/mo monthly) — 1 yr: $66.00/mo · 2 yr: $60.00/mo
Cancel any time — we refund the unused months pro-rata at your effective rate. The discount is for paying upfront, not for committing to a contract.
Why not Crucial?
Crucial is a premium Australian hosting provider that actually publishes their specs — refreshing in an industry full of opacity. Their Performance plan costs around $50/month: 4 GB RAM, 400% CPU, 50 GB storage, 6 MB/s IO, 40 EP. NSW datacentres, Australian support.
If storage is your primary concern, Crucial wins: 50 GB vs our 10 GB is a real difference for media-heavy or large sites. But if you need raw performance, the comparison shifts. GoodHost Performance 10 gives you 600% CPU (50% more than Crucial), 6 GB RAM (50% more), the same 6 MB/s IO, plus 4,000 IOPS (Crucial doesn’t publish theirs). At $72/mo + GST ($79.20 inc), you’re paying about 58% more, but for performance-critical applications — high-traffic WooCommerce, multi-site networks, CPU-intensive plugins — those extra resources translate to faster response times under load. WooCommerce optimisation included.
- CPU: 600% (vs Crucial’s 400%)
- RAM: 6 GB (vs Crucial’s 4 GB)
- Storage: 10 GB SSD (vs Crucial’s 50 GB) — Crucial wins on raw storage
- IO bandwidth: 6 MB/s (matched)
- IOPS: 4,000 published (vs Crucial’s not disclosed)
- Entry Processes: 50 EP (vs Crucial’s 40 EP)
- Sites: Unlimited
- WooCommerce optimisation: Included
- Lock-in: None — monthly billing, cancel anytime
- Money-back guarantee: 30 days
- Support: Aussie phone support — call 1800 931 000 Mon–Fri 9am–5pm AEST
When to use Performance vs WordPress Hosting?
Performance is our fastest cPanel hosting, ideal for WooCommerce stores, membership sites, and high-traffic WordPress. If you need dedicated resources with no shared neighbours, automatic WordPress updates, and container-level isolation, step up to our WordPress Hosting on the Enhance platform.
Inclusions
- All Business inclusions
- 600% CPU / 6 GB RAM
- 6 MB/s IO / 4,000 IOPS
- 50 concurrent processes (EP)
- WooCommerce optimised
- Membership site support
- Free migration from any host
- 30-day money-back guarantee
- No lock-in contracts
- Pro-rata billing on upgrades, downgrades and cancellations
- Aussie phone support, Mon–Fri 9am–5pm AEST (call 1800 931 000)
Storage Add-on
Need More Storage?
Add extra SSD storage to your Performance 10. One add-on per account — upgrade or downgrade anytime with pro-rata billing.
Only available on the 10 GB tier. Choose at checkout or upgrade anytime from your client area.
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Not on a 10 GB plan yet? Storage add-ons are only available on the 10 GB tier. Upgrade to the Performance 10 first, then add extra storage at checkout or from your client area anytime.
Related plans
Performance is GoodHost’s high-CPU shared cPanel tier. Here are alternatives if Performance doesn’t fit your situation:
- Business hosting — from $18/mo + GST. If your traffic is moderate and you don’t need 600% CPU, Business saves you money with AccelerateWP caching included.
- Managed WordPress hosting — from $45/mo + GST. Dedicated container per site. Better isolation than shared cPanel, even at high traffic, but only one site per plan.
- Compare all hosting plans — full side-by-side resource comparison.
- Why Australian hosting matters — latency, sovereignty, support, and compliance explained.
Frequently asked questions
When should I choose Performance over Business?
Choose Performance (600% CPU, 6 GB RAM, 4,000 IOPS) if you expect sustained traffic over 20,000 monthly visitors, run a busy WooCommerce store, host a membership site, or want true headroom for multiple CPU-heavy sites.
What does 600% CPU actually let me do?
600% CPU is six full processor cores — enough for 100k+ monthly visitors on a well-optimised WordPress site, or a WooCommerce store with 200+ orders/day.
Is Performance worth it for a single WordPress site?
Only if that site is big. A single blog with 5,000 visitors/month fits fine on Business. But if you’re running multiple sites, a busy store, or a membership site, Performance makes sense.
How much faster is Performance than Business, really?
Raw CPU doesn’t guarantee speed — caching matters more. But Performance handles traffic spikes without slowdown.
Can I run multiple WooCommerce stores on Performance?
Yes, unlimited. If each store gets 5,000 monthly visitors, they share the 600% CPU comfortably.
What’s the difference between Performance and WordPress 20?
Performance (cPanel) gives shared CPU, unlimited sites, cPanel management, $39–$72/month. WordPress 20 gives dedicated container, one site, WP Toolkit, $95/month.
Is the 6 MB/s I/O speed fast enough for database backups?
Yes. JetBackup on Performance takes daily snapshots that finish in 30 minutes to 2 hours depending on site size.
Do I need Performance for a fast website, or is Business with caching enough?
Caching matters more than raw CPU for page speed. A well-cached Business site loads faster than a poorly-optimised Performance site. But caching doesn’t help logged-in users, admins, or real-time features — that’s where Performance CPU shines.
About GoodHost
GoodHost is an Australian web hosting business operated by Faith Computing Pty Ltd (ABN 94 138 361 510) — a registered Australian company. We run our own infrastructure in Sydney, employ Australian support staff, and publish actual cgroup resource limits on every plan because we think customers deserve to know what they’re paying for.
What makes us different from the big international hosts: our prices stay the same at renewal (no $1.79/mo headline that becomes $11/mo), we don’t cap visits or charge overage fees, every plan includes free site migration from any host, and you can call 1800 931 000 Mon–Fri 9am–5pm AEST to talk to an Australian human. We also use AI to answer quick questions instantly via chat — both backed by people accountable in Australia, not overseas script-readers.
If you have specific questions about which plan fits your site, or want to talk through a migration before committing, call us. We’d rather have a real conversation than have you guess.