LearnDash Hosting: A UK Guide

LearnDash is a popular WordPress plugin for building and selling online courses, adding course structures, quizzes, and student progress tracking to a WordPress site. Unlike Moodle or FormaLMS, it’s not standalone software, it runs on top of an existing WordPress installation.

What LearnDash offers

• Course and lesson structure: Organise content into courses, lessons, and topics with progress tracking.
• Quizzes and assessments: Built-in quiz functionality with various question types.
• Monetisation integration: Sell courses directly, often alongside WooCommerce.

What LearnDash needs from hosting

Since LearnDash runs on WordPress, the hosting requirements are the same as for any WordPress site: current PHP version, adequate memory, SSD storage. If you’re also running WooCommerce to sell courses, the combined resource demands are higher, see our guide to WooCommerce hosting for that side of things.

FAQs about hosting LearnDash

Do I need special hosting for LearnDash, or just regular WordPress hosting?

Regular WordPress hosting works for LearnDash, provided it has adequate PHP memory. If you’re hosting video content directly rather than embedding from YouTube or Vimeo, storage and bandwidth become more important considerations.

Should I host course videos directly, or embed them from elsewhere?

Embedding from a video platform (YouTube, Vimeo) is generally easier on your hosting resources and bandwidth than self-hosting video files directly, and is the more common approach for most course creators.

Getting started

Switchweb provides UK-based WordPress hosting with current PHP versions, free SSL, and daily backups, suited to running LearnDash courses. If you’re a developer building out course functionality, our web hosting for developers guide covers SSH, staging, and other technical requirements. Students hosting their own learning projects will find our guide to web hosting for students a useful starting point. For course platforms incorporating AI personalisation or adaptive learning tools, our guide to hosting AI-powered websites covers the requirements. View our WordPress hosting plans to get started.