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Basics of Ecommerce Hosting and Its Solutions

by Ati Agrawal Content Writer
Ecommerce hosting is a specialized web hosting service in which a company is provided with solutions for selling its goods and services online. The hosting provider normally presents a bill for the services rendered on a monthly basis. The difference between the usual hosting and one meant for ecommerce is that certain specialised tools are offered along with web space and the generic features. Online order processing is the major task entrusted to the web host of a company engaged in online sales.

Services rendered by an ecommerce web host

A wide range of applications are used to enable a company sell its products on the World Wide Web. These include online catalogs, online shopping cart, electronic storefront, customer order processing, enabling of financial transactions, and inventory management. Emails, faxes and business documents are also managed by the web host under electronic data interchange or EDI.

If you want the most suitable ecommerce hosting solutions for your company, it would be advisable to choose a service provider which can provide the most economical services without compromising on quality. But in the first place, you should not have to compromise on its reliability aspect as this is one of the fundamentals of this kind of hosting. A renowned hosting provider not only assures you of reliability but also makes available the most suitable hosting service. Whether you want hosting services for a personal website, a large enterprise or a small to medium-scale business, the reliable web hosts can provide exactly what you need at conveniently economical rates.

What to look out for in an ecommerce web host?
When it comes to choosing between hosts of options for your service provider, look out for the following features:

  • Unlimited Ecommerce Hosting plan with Unlimited Disk Space,
  • Unlimited Bandwidth with Unlimited Email Account
  • The Ecommerce Hosting Plan should come with a free cPanel having fantastic Control Panel
  • Availability of more than 50 Free applications such as Wordpress
  • Availability of Free Blogs
  • Availability of Free Photo albums
  • Availability of Free Shopping Carts, Chat
  • Availability of Free Social Networking features
  • The ecommerce hosting plans should have a 30 day money back guarantee
  • 99.9% uptime guarantee with free 24/7 local support is a must

You might have to make a choice between Windows and Linux hosting. There are certain advantages of one over the other based on the kind of applications you want to run on your website. Your web host would recommend the ideal one for you.


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