Ecommerce Hosting

2007-04-17 10:41:55

( Web Hosting-SEO-Web Design )



Ecommerce, or electronic commerce, is the practice of marketing, buying and selling of products and/or services over an electronic system, such as the Internet. Ecommerce enables a company to conduct business over the internet, and reach a greater range and number of customers. Ecommerce involves electronic funds transfer, online marketing, and automated data collection systems, among others.

To be able to run an ecommerce website, you have to have an ecommerce hosting service. Ecommerce hosting is similar to other kinds of web hosting, as it also allows you to use web server space to be able to make your website accessible via the internet for a certain cost. However, ecommerce hosting plans are created specifically to suit your ecommerce needs.

Ecommerce hosting providers offer you services exclusively created for online businesses. These include online catalogs, shopping carts, increased bandwidth and disk space, payment gateways, and secure transactions, among other things. Merchant accounts are also typically provided by your ecommerce host. These accounts enable your site’s visitors to buy your offers using their credit cards, and allow you to receive their payment at a specific time every month. Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificates are also supplied by your ecommerce hosting provider. These are digital certificates that ensure your customers that the information they provide will remain confidential by keeping these information encrypted.

Given all these features, ecommerce web hosting is understandably more expensive than other kinds of web hosting. You can try other cheaper forms of web hosting, such as free web hosting and shared web hosting, but they will not give you the same security and freedom as ecommerce hosting does. You may also opt to use the similarly expensive kinds of web hosting, such as dedicated web hosting and collocation web hosting, but they will not be able to provide some of the special features offered by ecommerce hosting.


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