eCommerce Hosting essentials
Finding a professional hosting company for your ecommerce website is one of the most essential steps you need to take in setting up your business online.
For your online business to be successful you need a reliable ecommerce hosting provider that can guarantee more than 99.5 uptime so that your site will be displayed virtually 100% of the time.
eCommerce Hosting essentials:
24/7 support with a fast response time, ideally through live chat or email. This is a very effective way of resolving issues with your site, particularly when you are going through the initial set up phase.
Regular data backups. You need to be assured that if something goes wrong your hosting service provider will be able to restore your web site within a short span of time.
You should be able to upgrade to the next higher plan when the need arises. This ensures that as your web site grows you do not have to look for alternative ecommerce hosting or pay an enormous amount to upgrade your package.
Secure server facilities to protect your confidential information and to reassure your customers. An ecommerce hosting service should be able to provide this as this is absolutely necessary for ecommerce websites.
Support for the add on scripts and server side programming you may require. Most ecommerce hosting services offer more than enough support but it is advisable to check before signing up.
A comprehensive web site stats package. The better hosts will have a range of reporting packages from which you can choose your favorite. If the host offers the cpanel control panel then you should have a good range to choose from.
Fully featured accessories package that enables you to automate tasks such as your shopping cart facility and merchant account selection. This benefit can save you a lot of money in web site development costs.
Managed Dedicated Server said,
December 13, 2006 @ 4:12 pm
If you plan on collecting payments through credit cards directly on your website, you will need a SSL certificate. To have a SSL certificate, you need a dedicated IP address. So don’ forget to look for an SSL certificate and dedicated IPs when looking for an eCommerce host.
Web Hosting UK said,
August 25, 2007 @ 9:43 pm
cPanel Hosting should be considered best option for eCommerce Hosting. cPanel has recently included many Shopping Carts which can be installed with few clicks from your control panel.
Fantastico is another great tool that comes as an addon with cpanel.
Professional & Reliable Hosting is the most important criteria as downtime makes you loose potential customers permanently and once a customer finds 404 error on your website then he wont come back again.
At eUKhost.com we take 2 remote backups of each shared server and one copy of backup is maintained in our US based Datacenter as well. We promise 99.95% uptime guarantee and we are proud to have maintained our promise for at least 11 months in a year for any specific server.