| Ok, you have a website and desire to find | | | | Reliability: |
| ecommerce web hosting? Let's look at what you | | | | The place where you're hosting your site needs |
| need to have in order to be successful. There are | | | | to be reliable. That is, their servers need to be |
| myriads of so called ecommerce web hosting | | | | able to guarantee at least 99.5% uptime for its |
| sites out there, but here are the bottom line | | | | servers. You need to know your customers can |
| requirements and features needed: | | | | always find your site whenever they want. It's a |
| Shopping Carts | | | | horrible thing to have customers trying to click on |
| Make sure whatever web hosting you go with | | | | your site, but not being able to. |
| has a variety off FREE shopping carts that you | | | | Price |
| can download. We suggest finding a web host | | | | You are in an online business to make money not |
| that uses Fantastico, because it comes ready | | | | lose it. There are many affordable web hosting |
| with a variety of click click shopping cart | | | | companies out there that offer ecommerce |
| installations including such types as osCommerce | | | | hosting for less than seven dollars per month. |
| and Agora Shopping Cart. | | | | These types of shared web hosting plans can |
| SSL | | | | easily handle small and medium sized online |
| SSL will give the ability of your eCommerce web | | | | businesses. |
| hosting site to take credit card payments | | | | FTP |
| securely online. This is not only important for you, | | | | If you have an online small business there are |
| but also for your potential customers as they | | | | times where you will need to upload files or |
| want to have confidence while shopping online on | | | | affiliate links. Having FTP access will make all this |
| your site. A good web host will certainly provide | | | | possible and easy to do. |
| for SSL | | | | Support |
| Disk space and bandwidth | | | | I cannot tell you how important this is, especially if |
| You are going to want to look for as much of | | | | you're not a tech geek. Whatever ecommerce |
| the above as possible. I had the unfortunate | | | | web hosting company you decide on, you will |
| experience of have a site where I began getting | | | | inevitably run into an issue you cannot solve on |
| a ton of traffice (with potential buyers), but my | | | | your own. With good tech support, you have tons |
| site kept going down because I exceeded my | | | | of back-up help if you ever need. |
| quota of disk space and bandwidth. Therefore, | | | | Overall, as you shop around for ecommerce web |
| look for a ecommer web hosting site that offers | | | | hosting research the above areas about all of |
| unlimited bandwidth and you'll save yourself some | | | | them, and choose one that fits your needs. So |
| pain. | | | | remember, don't let the price of the hosting or its |
| Finally, there are other considerations to look at | | | | basic features be the only things you investigate |
| when shopping around for ecommerce web | | | | before signing up with your new ecommerce host. |
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