You are right, I should completely move out of Woocommerce and exclusively use Laravel + Filament + LunarPHP or even use hosted Shopify and decouple myself from the tech stack.
At the same time, a day job and raising kids can make major technological transitions a real challenge. So, we are here, still stuck between 2 systems.
Corcel has worked great for us, even in a production environment.
Our family's e-commerce business previously had a slow and bloated WooCommerce site, largely due to my skill issues. However, we were able to rescue the site by using Corcel, Laravel, Filament, and LunarPHP.
My wife still uses the WordPress admin interface as the main admin tool, while the public-facing website is rendered by Laravel, with data provided seamlessly through Corcel.
I love the seamless experience.
- Take a snapshot from US's box.
- Restore US snapshot to new Singapore box.
- Wait about 15min and it's done.
The prices are still nice, compared to Digital Ocean, Vultr, or Linode.