A customer sees one checkout page. Behind it, your WordPress site may contact several services to process payment, check inventory, calculate shipping, and update your CRM. Plugins make those connections easy to set up. They don’t always make it obvious what happens when a service slows down or stops responding.

As you add integrations and AI features, more of your site’s everyday work depends on APIs. That makes those connections part of your hosting requirements, even if you think of the site as “just WordPress.”

In this article, we’ll look at how WordPress consumes APIs, why hosting affects integration performance,

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